Magnet's Scores
- Music
For 2,325 reviews, this publication has graded:
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60% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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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: | Comicopera | |
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| Lowest review score: | Sound-Dust |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,874 out of 2325
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Mixed: 380 out of 2325
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Negative: 71 out of 2325
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music
reviews
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- Magnet
Posted Feb 11, 2013 -
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The result is a finely crafted collection of music that speaks volumes beyond its instrumental presentation. [No. 95, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Feb 11, 2013 -
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These guys do so many things well--now if they could only find their weird again. [No. 95, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Feb 11, 2013 -
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Alternatively gentle and jangly, The House At Sea is a delight. [No. 95, p.52]- Magnet
Posted Feb 11, 2013 -
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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
Posted Feb 8, 2013 -
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The Marriage Of True Minds is pure late-model Matmos: perverse, urbane, crowded, hilarious, and efficient. [No. 95, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Feb 8, 2013 -
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The coarse sonic atmosphere remains, but in nearly every other respect, the evolution is substantial. [No.95, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Feb 8, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 9, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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An impressive mix of high and low art, Local Business is at once outsider, mainstream, universal and massive. [No. 94, p.61]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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A ground-breaking debut, an original game-changer, a true, flawless, 24-carat triumph. [No. 94, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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Master producer J. Robbins deserves some credit for the band's audibly broadened horizons. [No. 94, p.60]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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Improbably enough, the resultant record could last you winterlong. [No. 94, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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Much of Synthesized sounds like a rather bland concentrate of whatever musical style Holkenborg has chosen to upgrade. [No.94, p.56]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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The potential showed on Explore is evidence that GRMLN still has more to say. [No.94, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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Too often the tracks meander aimlessly, never building enough momentum to culminate into any kind of climax. [No. 94, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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It's easily Emerald's least utilitarian album yet. [No. 94, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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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
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
- Magnet
Posted Jan 4, 2013 -
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It's a treasure trove of listening pleasure. [No. 94, p.51]- Magnet
Posted Jan 3, 2013