Mixmag's Scores

  • Music
For 450 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 77% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 79
Highest review score: 100 Xen
Lowest review score: 50 The Mountain Will Fall
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 0 out of 450
450 music reviews
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Steffi appears totally in control on an album that’s an important milestone in her career: mature, emotive and imbued with a hint of futurism, it’s a delight.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Bursts with textured atmospheres and danceable beats, all led by the unwavering might of Kelela’s lungs.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Springsteen cover ‘The Last To Die’, is a witty aside, but throbbing 4/4 dominates as the electronic legends make a welcome return to their roots.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a strong, sometimes truly beautiful, maturation of Avery’s work as a producer.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is street-tough tech-house, happy to wear its hip hop, jazz, disco and Latin influences on its sleeve.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mastered by Berlin’s leading engineer Tobias Freud, the craftsmanship is simply untouchable, but the absence of any absolute stormers creates a slight shortfall.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Perhaps a marginally less absorbing spin than Nick Höppner’s addition to the series last summer, but judged on its own merits, Panorama 05 still constitutes a solid house mix.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All of the trademark Marconi-isms are here, but they’re now emboldened by broader musical strokes.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It can be tough going, but it’s really worth getting your teeth into.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As a producer, Barratt is the equal of anyone working today, but what’s most amazing is that even after 30-plus years, he still seems to be as connected with the magic of dancefloor moments as he ever was.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An extraordinary talent at the top of her game. [Jun 2018, p.113]
    • Mixmag
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The guest list on Amygdala proves his pull, boasting marquee names to help Koze construct a dense, intense and highly individual album of nuanced house.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Olson’s approach is simple without being naive and challenging rather than wilfully artsy, switching from the menacing ‘Weight’ to the pared-back acid of ‘Pop’.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Ron Morelli] actively dislikes clubs--but he’s managing to infiltrate them with this insurgent electronic music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's hard not to get emotional. Cavernous drums and multi-layered vocals characterise 'Open Your Eyes', which has the ambitious sweep of classic 80s pop (think Berlin) and, with glacial, droning chords and Deheza's quivering, velvety vocals, the beatless 'Confusion' may well reduce you to mush.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    For the most part, it’s a sweaty journey of ribcage-rattling techno from the genre’s biggest players.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seaton, as Call Super, invokes Peel’s memory on Fabric 92--if not in sound, then in the personal nature and spirit that percolates throughout.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you’re looking for some immersive and emotional electronica, just Call Super.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Textures plough and pound throughout the album, revealing yet another new, unclassifiable side of OPN's musical brain as he brings more disparate sounds to the fore. [Jun 2018, p.115]
    • Mixmag
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    'All I Need’ and ‘Simulrec’ are highlights in what is a confident and mesmerising debut from Avery, one that deserves to go down as one of the best of 2013.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sebenza ranges and explores, opening sonic doors that deserve more regular use.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It’s an album you’ll want to return to again and again.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meditative house music moments from Italojohnson and Vin Sol also bring the heat in the first hour, while for the final furlong, he opts for two peak-time Audion exclusives and brings the mix to a close with DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko’s ‘Kumu’.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Steffi provides a delectable mix that’s a testament to her curating skills.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lanza, the antithesis of the ululating, overwrought antics of the X Factor school, has an arsenal of talents that puts her in a league of her own. She’s very much for real.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Bold, brilliant and beautiful.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This deft new album [is] a delight.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Witty, conceptual, original and above all both musically exciting and enjoyable, it’s an understatement to say that DVA’s second album NOTU_URONLINEU is mature.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Other tracks have a steady kick and soulful samples, but these are made glitchy and trippy in the style of classic Akufen (see ‘Come Close to Me’ and ‘New Love’), or have wonky synth tones that blurt out of the mix (‘Je T’Aime’, ‘L.U.V.’). And the downtempo tunes that surround them also swerve off their expected tracks and into psychedelic and deliciously weird territory. This is precisely the sort of confounding of expectations we love to hear, and bodes well for a long, interesting career.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The album’s percussive moments are perfect for sunny festival slots. Elsewhere, ‘London Lights’ is comparatively relaxed, though its slow-burning synth-line stretches into club territory, and the expansive sonic landscape throughout ‘Black Prism’ could be a James Blake cut.