Magnet's Scores

  • Music
For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Comicopera
Lowest review score: 10 Sound-Dust
Score distribution:
2325 music reviews
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's a canny hybrid. [No. 95, p.53]
    • Magnet
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The result is a finely crafted collection of music that speaks volumes beyond its instrumental presentation. [No. 95, p.53]
    • Magnet
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These guys do so many things well--now if they could only find their weird again. [No. 95, p.52]
    • Magnet
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alternatively gentle and jangly, The House At Sea is a delight. [No. 95, p.52]
    • Magnet
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    On the band's latest, they continue the move toward the tighter concision found on 2009's King Of Jeans, but unlike Pissed Jeans' previous efforts, there isn't a seven-minute dirge on Honeys. [No. 95, p.51]
    • Magnet
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Marriage Of True Minds is pure late-model Matmos: perverse, urbane, crowded, hilarious, and efficient. [No. 95, p.55]
    • Magnet
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The coarse sonic atmosphere remains, but in nearly every other respect, the evolution is substantial. [No.95, p.56]
    • Magnet
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    III
    After all these years, the band still possesses no originality or musical inventiveness that could distinguish it from the pack. [No. 93, p.58]
    • Magnet
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mostly, the remix collection works in this vein, mutating the originals by further accentuating the brooding atmosphere and driving the beat harder. [No. 94, p.61]
    • Magnet
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An impressive mix of high and low art, Local Business is at once outsider, mainstream, universal and massive. [No. 94, p.61]
    • Magnet
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He's still evolving, and though the double CD Psychedelic Pill is far from nostalgic, he's spending a helluva lot of time looking back. [No. 94, p.61]
    • Magnet
    • 98 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A ground-breaking debut, an original game-changer, a true, flawless, 24-carat triumph. [No. 94, p.60]
    • Magnet
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Essentially, it's the super-cool but super-classy Christmas record all hipsters hope they'll find under their tree this year. [No. 94, p.61]
    • Magnet
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Master producer J. Robbins deserves some credit for the band's audibly broadened horizons. [No. 94, p.60]
    • Magnet
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    It's a clever set, no doubt, and ably built. But for the Soft moon's work to sound weightier, Vasquez may need to push his limits more aggressively. [No. 94, p.59]
    • Magnet
    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    GRRR! is a total cash grab. [No. 94, p.59]
    • Magnet
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's an ever-so-slight improvement upon what has come to be expected of GBV and related releases of the last 10-12 years. [No. 94, p.58]
    • Magnet
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    On the whole, this is the fuzz-popping, party-starting, pan-galactic prescription you forgot to remember you were waiting for. [No. 94, p.58]
    • Magnet
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Improbably enough, the resultant record could last you winterlong. [No. 94, p.58]
    • Magnet
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Much of Synthesized sounds like a rather bland concentrate of whatever musical style Holkenborg has chosen to upgrade. [No.94, p.56]
    • Magnet
    • 61 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The whole record is all skittering drums never finding their place, and shivering synths that drift in search of a landing pad. [No. 94, p.58]
    • Magnet
    • 79 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    A set of soul instrumentals that wouldn't sound out of place on a late-'60s/early-'70s blaxploitation soundtrack. [No. 94, p.57]
    • Magnet
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's an interesting experience and definitely an entertaining listen, even if you'll have no clue what you're listening to half the time. [No. 94, p.57]
    • Magnet
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The potential showed on Explore is evidence that GRMLN still has more to say. [No.94, p.55]
    • Magnet
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lux
    With LUX, Eno continues to show off the theatricality of subtlety. [No. 94, p.54]
    • Magnet
    • 70 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Too often the tracks meander aimlessly, never building enough momentum to culminate into any kind of climax. [No. 94, p.54]
    • Magnet
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's easily Emerald's least utilitarian album yet. [No. 94, p.53]
    • Magnet
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The arresting gorgeous title tune here destroys everything else, of course. But the rest have a loose, jammy feel that wouldn't have been tolerable in any phase of the DP's career other than the pop one. [No. 94, p.53]
    • Magnet
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a success throughout. [No. 94, p.53]
    • Magnet
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's a treasure trove of listening pleasure. [No. 94, p.51]
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