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
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] Collection of gorgeous, gossamer-light vignettes. [Jun 2018, p.114]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slow Focus is a grisly journey into the unknown, but an exhilarating one--if you’re willing to take it.
    • 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’.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's kind of unexpected, but Brackles has created a sunny storm.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dive in and experience Slugabed's amazing imagination for yourself.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With no twee gimmicks, vibrant colour and bold substance are present in spades, resulting in an album that’s nothing short of a masterclass in left-of-centre dance music.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you’re looking for some immersive and emotional electronica, just Call Super.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put intellectual conceits aside and Untogether’s dense, throbbing undercurrent, a soundtrack to some alternative dancefloor, proves alluring.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ‘The Kid’ feels organic and human; you can hear it in ‘Who I Am Why I Am Where I Am’, where repetitive Steve Reich-style phrases are layered like filo pastry. Like much of this beautiful record, its hypnotic intensity is immensely comforting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get ready for shimmering, disco-dipped house and digital soul, long German titles and impish unconventionality.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nearly 30 years in the game have not withered them a jot.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Opener 'Halo' finds Albarn at his melancholic best, while 'K-Town' demonstrates a vitality that often seems missing from African music in its WOMAD-friendly guise.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Most electronic acts, when asked to sound-track a film, dump pop sensibility in favour of atmospherics, but we're happy to report that, as astute players for over a decade, Air have gone the other way: to the moon and back.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dillon's rustling electronics plink, twitch and occasionally spin out, set apart by a cutesy vocal style and eccentric lyrics that sound a bit like a baby-voiced Kate Bush.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tracks on The Triad are often busier, denser and more wild than their predecessor. Gone are the carefully layered compositions and _sparse wintry landscapes and arrived have more free flowing jams.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s so absorbing that, by the end of the two-hour odyssey, you’ll be left wondering where the time went. Splendid stuff.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eleania demands focus, too, but pay attention to it and you'll be rewarded.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Passages of pummeling grooves, emotional strings and delicate piano are impressively tied together by Craig’s dancefloor expertise.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    It's an all-encompassing experience ideal for Mixmag readers seeking transportation to a Balearic state of bliss.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wiley's finally made the album that his talent warrants.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slightly dark and just a little experimental, this is quality, innovative, of-the-moment dance music.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A brilliant, breathlessly exciting, sunshine-dappled album of melodic, electronic alt-pop.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They forge a magicalworld of trippy vocal electronica.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In short, Chase & Status remain fierce and on form.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of outstanding pop, shuddering dance-rock and intricate electronic moods.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Glasgow quartet have put their talent for irresistible hooks to good use and come up with a solid new LP that splices towering post rock with potent dancefloor sensibilities
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a classy, timeless mix from a classy and timeless selector.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All in all, hugely ambitious enjoyable fun.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You'd have to be fairly joyless not to find the lighthearted lyrical content and unifying party vibes infectious.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The man who won a BAFTA for his soundtrack to Broadchurch stitches his own sombre and beatless exclusives into rainy, greyscale pop, intimate ambient and frosty bass like it ain’t no thing beautiful.