New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores

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For 6,299 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: 4,466 out of 6299
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6299
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6299
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dreamless Sleep
    Caminiti's style is uniquely desolate and delicious.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Is
    Clever and memorable--an electrifying frisson of underground meets overground, punk purism meets pop perfection, artistic integrity meets not minding too much if more than five people like you. [11 Jun 2005, p.65]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the End It Always Does
    If Bain’s lyrics are poised to pull you one way on ‘In The End It Always Does’, her voice and instrumentals yank you back in the other direction – it’s disorientating, dizzying and utterly intoxicating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    United Crushers
    If this really is Poliça’s “final paper” (as Leaneagh’s called it), then they’ve excelled themselves with the most intimate and empowering album of their career.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain Olympics
    ‘Pain Olympics’ is a disturbing, joyous, cataclysmic listen that travels from claustrophobia and fear into wide-eyed expressions of joy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coral Fang
    In making a record with such universal themes of love and hate, and sounding so pissed off in the process, Brody has inadvertently made herself the most important new rock star in the world.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Beautiful Life Can Be
    While The Lathums may crib from their working class heroes, they don’t solely rely on them.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shamir
    ‘Shamir’ is the sound of a consistently evolving artist reclaiming their path and making the music they want to make. His seventh, self-titled album is the sound of an artist who’s finally found his musical home.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Deeper Understanding
    Lovers of the plush paranoia of 2014’s breakthrough album ‘Lost In The Dream’ will be relieved that his fourth outing doesn’t touch that dial. From the opening highway piano judder of ‘Up All Night’ it’s like losing yourself once more in some lost golden age of MOR.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hunter
    This is an album of extremes, but they’re all bridged by bold and fluid movements of an artist refusing to be either man, woman or victim--always the hunter.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Barn
    Raw and rugged at every turn, the album captures the telepathic bond that these rock’n’roll renegades have cultivated over the years. ... Neil Young remains as vital as he always has been.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No Cities Left
    Sound[s] like Marvin Gaye fronting The Smiths while the London Philharmonic Orchestra has a stab at the Burt Bacharach songbook. [9 Oct 2004, p.55]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Distance
    Michaelson’s oaken, hefty voice is flecked with creaks of optimism, while the band slump elegantly into their forlorn Americana, to stand proudly alongside the likes of Bill Callahan and The National.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not Your Muse
    There may be elements of these greats in her vocals, but as ‘Not Your Muse’ proves, Celeste is on her way to becoming a star in her own right.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Melody's Echo Chamber
    What it all adds up to isn't big-push psych loonycakes like The Flaming Lips, but something more subtly disorienting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mellow Moon
    Out of necessity, the sonic experimentation is braver, too, as if to emphasise the intensity of the feelings that Templeman examines throughout. The songs are immediate and involving.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Madres
    It all comes together to make ‘Madres’ a true love letter to the varied, invigorating sounds that have shaped Kourtesis.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Law Of Large Numbers
    Now Pollock has rediscovered her former band’s grandiose esoterica and stark, scratchy danger.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Hundred Days Off
    Their best album since their 'Dubnobasswithmyheadman' debut, Karl and Rick have pulled off a comeback in fine style and laid some demons to rest.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blossoms
    Ultimately, Blossoms leap from their chart-bound Trojan horse as modernist rock heroes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Acts Of Fear And Love
    Musically, Acts Of Fear And Love is the most accomplished of Slaves’ three albums, switching things up and pulling off new sounds without losing sight of the band’s DNA.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    House of Sugar
    His songs are rarely constructed from a place of deeply considered meaning. Instead, they’re largely streams of his conscience: creations that invite listeners to cosy up in his world. On ‘House of Sugar’, it’s his most exciting invitation yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Rat
    The hangover may be setting in, but DZ Deathrays have found new ways to party.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely
    It’s gratifying to hear Young push her idea of pop beyond the spacey atmospherics of her earlier material – this is the overdue arrival of a completely credible new talent.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2)
    The swiftly released follow-up staves off a bad case of sequelitis because it successfully deepens Swims’ story.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Chaosmosis
    Over the course of a 35-year career defined by excess, reinvention and the occasional brush with genius, Primal Scream have made all sorts of albums, but not one quite like this.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Short Movie
    There's no overarching narrative to Short Movie--it plays out like a series of vignettes, of moods and moments, people and places--but there is a sense of a journey completed, with a hard-won wisdom at the end of it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Earthly Delights
    Out of the lo-fi punk/hardcore/black metal bedrock clatter of sound they create, lysergic and buzzing riffs clarify gloriously before melting back into chaos.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At.Long.Last.A$AP
    Playground misogyny aside, ALLA is a thrillingly focused follow-up that betrays its anxieties even as it mostly makes do with extolling the virtues of vice.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Antenna
    When you cover this sort of expansive, experimental territory, you're inevitably flirting with pomposity. But like Tool or Radiohead, Cave-In's progressiveness is hypnotic rather than alienating, played out with a sense of near-religious awe that's difficult to deny.
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