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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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beacon
    Musically, they've come on. Kevin Baird's bass work – always a highlight – is finally showcased to full effect on the 'Rip It Up'-style swagger of 'Wake Up' and the jagged riffing of 'Sun', while 'Pyramid' features some seriously impressive guitar noodles.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All We Love We Leave Behind
    By trading nonsensical time signatures and atonal bursts for fluidity and stadium rock, they've subtracted from their former wretchedness.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    119
    The most obvious progressions are the band's clearer song structures and Lee Spielman's vocals.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    METZ
    Metz deliver the same righteous anger that informed much of their favourite music in the early '90s.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Twins
    It has the reckless spirit of a record that hasn't been over-analysed, but with an intense flurry of ideas from someone in the absolute prime of their creativity.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tender Opposites
    Tender Opposites is a technical delight, sounding like psych-nitwits Deerhoof giving an old friend a bearhug.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jiaolong
    Ultimately, Jialong is the sound of a producer having the time of his life--and boy oh boy is that infectious.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Halcyon
    Mainly, Halcyon sees Goulding's quirky-as-usual vocals lazily spliced into factory-standard chart dance.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mumps, Etc.
    It critically casts an eye over Wolf's public persona.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strange Grey Days
    There's a bunch of teary emotions bagged up in the spikiest of descending scales.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Observator
    The influence of Chairlift, Warpaint, Alt-J and The xx all subliminally creep into adorable but chilling laments on dying young and wrecked romances.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strapped
    Uncomplicated, Spinto Band-ish jangles like 'Second Look', 'Tallboy' and 'Everything I Know' plough casually and happily along without a care in the world, very much like the band themselves.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Oh No I Love You
    This is a sweet postcard from a man who still gives a shit about trying something new.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 2nd Law
    What Muse have done is re-establish themselves as a respected British institution by being fun.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Until the Quiet Comes
    Ultimately, this album is the sound of the future.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fantasm Planes [EP]
    The new EP by maximalist electronica savant Chris Clark covers yet more new ground while retaining his indelible touch of genius.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    State Hospital [EP]
    It's a fine build-up to the Selkirk quintet's fourth album, due out early 2013.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Dark Crawler
    It might have taken a decade, but this feels like grime finally beginning to grasp its vast potential.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dead in the Boot
    Given that this album spans nearly a decade of the band's huge and peculiar journey, it's odd that its somnolent air actually renders it slightly one-note.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jimmy's Show
    This is funny peculiar, not funny Barenaked Ladies.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Babel
    If you can get past the earnest nostalgia and tweedy affectations, this isn't a bad album, just an average one.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    End of Daze [EP]
    This is instead a solid collection of outtakes, rather than a full display of their songwriting muscle.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Piramida
    Destined for the 'obscure, kinda interesting' slot come end-of-year list time.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Breakup Song
    No-wave krunch meets mutant disco shuffle meets snippets of global radness and, yeah, it's better than Animal Collective's new one.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cruel Summer
    After the twin peaks of 'Watch The Throne' and 'My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy''s rap-pop grandeur, Cruel Summer feels slight in comparison. Still, as a cross section of the most brilliant, solipsistic mind in rap, it's an essential purchase.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Uno!
    However successful the whole endeavour (¡Dos! and ¡Tré!) might end up being, ¡Uno! can only be judged on its own merits, and those merits are somewhat erratic.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sebenza
    There really ain't anyone bringing the world party quite like LV.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Tomahawk Technique
    A lacklustre collection of what sounds like pallid versions of previous hits.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moms
    The newly reduced duo return with a fifth album that could be 2012's least likely coming-of-age.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Total Loss
    Squired by The xx producer Rodaidh McDonald, this second album is hugely accomplished.
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