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 |
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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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Cryptograms is a pleasant enough record, but it remains to be seen if Deerhunter can add up to more than the sum of its gear and influences. [#75, p.96]- Magnet
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Visitations doesn't produce the novel shock that greeted Clinic's debut single, but it does find new rewards within predictable parameters. [#74, p.94]- Magnet
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Sounds far richer than the one-off project that it is. [#74, p.97]- Magnet
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The emotional gravitas only lends heft to the group's exhilarating, ever-present sugar high. [#74, p.104]- Magnet
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What had been a fascinating display of aural minimalism has morphed into a haphazard, ill-advised mess. [#75, p.96]- Magnet
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Strained, anachronistic verses may test your patience, but given what Arbouretum has to say when no one's singing, there's still a lot to uncover. [#74, p.90]- Magnet
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Mixes equal parts Teenage Fanclub and mid-period Wilco. [#74, p.91]- Magnet
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An endearing solo effort with a higher percentage of hits to misses than 2003's My Room Is A Mess. [#75, p.96]- Magnet
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Oh, what fey-but-fecund pleasures lurk in the grooves of the group's third full-length. [#74, p.91]- Magnet
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Orphans plays less like a career capstone than Waits' one-man Library of Congress field-recording project. [#74, p.93]- Magnet
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While it is technically flawless and masterfully executed, it makes for awkward listening. [#74, p.102]- Magnet
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The truth is, even Angels & Airwaves do this sort of epic-emo thing with more verve, if not more Verve. [#73, p.96]- Magnet
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Sometimes the gambles pay off... and sometimes they don't. [#74, p.108]- Magnet
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The album is so unassuming and unhurried that it's easy to dismiss. Just hang in there and play it again. [#74, p.97]- Magnet
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And Now That I'm In Your Shadow finds him at another peak. [#74, p.98]- Magnet
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Ambitious, risky and occasionally rambling, this is a song cycle best absorbed in a start-to-finish listen. [#73, p.93]- Magnet
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The sum of these elements could achieve greatness if not for one simple-yet-major falw: Beach House manages a memorable sound but not memorable songs. [#74, p.91]- Magnet
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A draining listen due to its scatterbrained ideas and patchy sequencing. [#73, p.106]- Magnet
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Arthur is still writing seamlessly melodic, slightly psychedelic tunes, often thickened with atmospheric reverb or distant electronics. [#73, p.84]- Magnet
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Where 2005's harrowing Frances The Mute strikes the right balance between inspiration and indulgence, the Mars Volta loses its equilibrium with Amputechture. [#73, p.96]- Magnet
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This return to form annotates the band's last 22 years rather nicely. [#73, p.110]- Magnet
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[A] promising set of laptop balladry, ambient Brian Eno classicism and even an attempt at shifty electro-funk. [#73, p.85]- Magnet