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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Wennerstom's voice marvelously leapfrogs between piercing highs and baritone lows, and bassist Jesse Ebaugh carries "Late in the Night" like a subdued, sober and shirted Mel Schacher, though Arrow's languid pace may turn off those who like their rock a bit more rocking. [No. 85, p.55]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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It merits a mild sigh, but no great surprise, that ... [here is] the Magnetic Fields' first out-and-out novelty record. Fortunately, there are some decent jokes. [No. 85, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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Everything with this band is bigger and more over-over-overdubbed than [Ruess' former band] the Format, which makes fun. about 10 times more annoying. [No. 85, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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When everything's working, the band is a force. Which doesn't happen enough on this oddly-timed eponymous release. [No. 85, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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While BPM ultimately feels disjointed, it does get you thinking deep thoughts, pondering the similarities between brain activity and seismic activity. [No. 85, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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Even though bombast spawned the band's biggest hit, it sinks a lot of this record's second half. [No. 85, p.53]- Magnet
Posted Mar 16, 2012 -
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A few songs flop... but the overall is a fitting celebration of the Chieftain's 50 years of music. [No. 85, p. 53]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2012 -
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The trio continues mixing and mismatching, with both elements of Skulls' sound [Black Keys' rock and Radiohead's honey-eyed longing] feeling even more pronounced. [No. 85, p. 52]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2012 -
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There's a brighter sheen to the new Shins ... [yet] too often feels like Mercer's straining and striving when he used to be quirky and charming. [No. 85, p.51]- Magnet
Posted Mar 12, 2012 -
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No one made damnation as appealing as Ira and Charlie Louvin. [No. 82, p. 57]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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These tunes feel huge, enhanced by a newfound confidence, choirs literal and adhoc, and the snap-bracelet rhyme schemes of pal Aesop Rock. [No. 82, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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His guitar solos are more electrified than usual, and they sound like burning juke-joint riffs... a true American original. [No. 82, p. 53]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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Throughout the album, Wedren knows when to go from maximalist to minimalist. And his multi-octave vocal range still delivers accessible melodies. [No. 81, p. 59]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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The album holds up better than most dustbin acquisitions reissue labels make, but it's not without its limitations - namely, in the way it mixes and matches aesthetics. [No. 81, p. 59]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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This is the most blistering set the duo have put out in a long time. [No. 81, p. 56]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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What's missing ... is a sense of perspective, or humor, or anything to leaven Buckingham's monochromatic intensity. [No. 81, p.54]- Magnet
Posted Feb 2, 2012 -
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Posted Jan 25, 2012 -
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Offers both considerable beauty and ugliness. [#82, p. 62]- Magnet
Posted Nov 22, 2011 -
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Williams pits his angst-y tendencies against grunge's proven, angst-coddling backdrop. [#82, p. 62]- Magnet
Posted Nov 22, 2011 -
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Inni takes the listener on a walk through 15 or so years of a robustly lush and sumptuously luxurious ethereal-pop weirdness clashing with colossal waves of noise rock. [#82, p. 60]- Magnet
Posted Nov 22, 2011 -
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For the most part, we're just not feeling Everything. [#82, p. 60]- Magnet
Posted Nov 22, 2011 -
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While they haven't really changed up their formula on this second LP, they have gotten exponentially better at brewing it up. [#82, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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[Lopatin] knows how to integrate plangent tones with somber piano chords to give the title track a plaintive, wistful quality, making sure to throw enough glitch in so that it doesn't get stranded on Windham Hill. [#82, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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The imitations/references spill out... But Spills Out is considerably less interesting and more cerebral, when Pterodactyl sounds like other bands.[#82, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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Dracula gurgles with slower, more experimental moments at times, but the brief drags are balanced out by funky hip-swingers and modern nuggets. [#82, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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A series of genre-bending compositions written with New York chamber-music ensemble yMusic that puts [Worden's] full vocal range of on display... a really powerful synergy. [#82, p.59]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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Converts to the cause will find much to love here, and curious newcomers and Anglophiles, it's as good a place as any to start. [#82, p.58]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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His latest EP pushes his glossy pop inclinations even further; the five tracks are quick and sweet, gussied up with quirky instrumentation. [#82, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011 -
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As mesmerizingly Zen as Korallreven's dreamy, glazed gaze is, it's hard not to long for the band to shake itself free of its googly-eyed trance, if only for a moment or two. [#82, p.57]- Magnet
Posted Nov 21, 2011