New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores

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For 6,302 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 71
Highest review score: 100 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Lowest review score: 0 Maroon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,469 out of 6302
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6302
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6302
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This New Day
    'This New Day' is, by Embrace's own standards, a triumphant album indeed. [25 Mar 2006, p.35]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ilp.
    Although not as immediate as his collaborators’ work, his introversion pulls you into his unique soundscape.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
    A very weird album, but a very intriguing one too.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jamie Lidell
    It’s unconventional but at the same time totally pop--a tricky balancing act Lidell just about pulls off.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Black and Gold
    A more diverse and calculated album than a usual Hey Colossus offering, and all the better for it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sword Of God
    Fundamentally, 'The Sword Of God' is a record that fumbles desperately at the door of greatness but can't quite get the key to fit. It tries hard, it's got some excellent songs on it, but it's just slightly too smarmy for its own good.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Into Forever
    Sparkling synth melodies abound on ‘Time Enough’ and ‘Shapes And Patterns’, with only the meandering Pink Floyd indulgence ‘Vapour Trails’ dragging the journey down.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    TheFutureEmbrace
    The thing that's not missing here is songs. [18 Jun 2005]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid
    The album is over-long, too, and a few songs less would have made it a leaner, meaner, more KAPOW-ing beast. All that said, when Jwl and Shunda’s flabbergasting spit is on form, it’s as compelling as a new, untired voice in rap always is.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Is New
    Jack Penate has made a record that’s light on its feet, has glamour bordering on sex appeal and that doesn’t make you wish a fatwa upon its author.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Alright, Still
    If the pop dreams get slightly tarnished by the graffiti put-downs of 'Not Big' (her ex has a 'size problem') and 'Alfie' (her brother smokes too much dope) then that's not too worrying. With a personality this size, this isn't the last time you'll be hearing from her.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything in Between
    No Age will never be legit superstars, but they have a keen and loyal fanbase, something cherishable in a year likely to be paradoxically remembered for forgettable chancers.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Young & Old
    A rather good second album that contains some of the brightest and jolliest music you'll have heard [for a long time].
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Faded Seaside Glamour
    If there's a clear problem with the album, it lies in the sugar-coated crystalline sheen that surrounds everything.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Satan's Circus
    Dead-eyed, malevolent and alluring. [9 Oct 2004, p.57]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Red Light District
    If you like loud choruses, ceaseless energy and the bug-eyed extremities of crunk, look no further. [15 Jan 2005, p.43]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fleet Foxes
    You have to wade through a lot of plaid-shirted, porch-rocking psychedelia before you get there. The patient pilgrim, though, can look forward to unearthing the widescreen Laurel Canyon-birthed wonder of 'Your Protectors' after one or two plays.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Song & Dance
    It’s mid-album epic ‘Push It’ that best showcases their dexterity, an eerie bass-drum kick blending with a beautiful crescendo of soaring violin strings and piano keys.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nightingale
    More magpies than nightingales across these 13 tracks, they stitch up a glorious grab-bag of modern psych.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pretty Ugly
    There's occasional crimes of flannel-wet schmaltz but mostly Smart is like an esoteric, London-based Dam-Funk with a fondness for chemically enhanced raving.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This Is My Demo
    Overloaded with laugh-out-loud lyrical gobbets, intelligent production and tunes that straddle commerciality and the street. [28 Jan 2006, p.34]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kill Them With Kindness
    Big tunes welded to even bigger guitars.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper
    This is a flawed, sometimes absurd, but always intriguing album that repeatedly approaches being something special.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Time to Go Home
    "Cool Slut" is burdened by the idea that the need to fight gender inequality still exists in 2015. Occasionally though, they find relief.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aaltopiiri
    Here is another dry collection of sullen machine drones and subtle tonal manipulation; signals to the outside world explaining that all is well in Pan Sonic's overpoweringly masculine universe.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nancy Sinatra
    Reasserts what's great about her. [2 Oct 2004, p.64]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A City By The Light Divided
    [It] signpost[s] a possible future for emo. [29 Apr 2006, p.39]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Flume
    It’s a bit TEED on a beach, or SBTRKT with mask exchanged for a tasteful side-parting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kindred
    Even if there's still a sneaking suspicion Angelakos used up his very best tunes on 2008 debut EP 'Chunk Of Change', this dewy-eyed record sweeps you up in its joie de vivre all the same.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ágætis Byrjun
    Waves of unidentifiable noise, dulcet vibraphone pulses and singer/guitarist Jonsi's ethereal singing (more like some ghostly instrument than any conventional vocal, borne out by Jonsi's fictional 'language', Hopelandish, which he often sings in) mesh to create an elegant, grand music that's equally ambient and epic.
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