New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores

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For 6,298 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: 4,465 out of 6298
  2. Mixed: 1,680 out of 6298
  3. Negative: 153 out of 6298
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Be Your Own Pet
    Much of the reason for bothering with BYOP lies in the absolute glory of hearing Pearl succeed in making every lyrical couplet she spews forth sound as if she's been drinking cider since birth and is ready to hurl... anytime... now!
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Let's Get Out Of This Country
    If 'Let's Get Out Of This Country' was a person, you would want to hug it until its big doe-eyes popped out. [10 Jun 2006, p.41]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The River In Reverse
    A good album, in a well-produced way, but it's not as good or as important as it thinks it is. [24 Jun 2006, p.43]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Laugh Now, Cry Later
    Excuse me sir, is this 1993? [26 Aug 2006, p.43]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Puzzles Like You
    Mojave 3's Great Leap Forward. [17 Jun 2006, p.39]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Garden
    Like a scented Lush bath-bomb of mediocrity. [27 May 2006, p.31]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Twelve Stops And Home
    [They] are so busy trying to be Supertramp they've forgotten to add anything of themselves. [3 Jun 2006, p.35]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Drift
    Every bit as stark, foreboding, but utterly singular as 'Tilt'. [6 May 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Obliterati
    Kicks with a passion and inventiveness that's seen them steam up the specs of everyone from Moby to Graham Coxon. [17 Jun 2006, p.39]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's Never Been Like That
    If 'It's Never Been Like That' is a failure, at least it's not a boring one. [20 May 2006, p.31]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Hundred Miles Off
    A hundred miles off, and they might as well be a thousand. [16 Sep 2006, p.37]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    To Find Me Gone
    Cabic's alt.blues vocals sometimes sound disinterested, but they merely act as a device for the music to take over the listener. [1 Jul 2006, p.36]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    When it comes down to it, it ain't gonna change your world any.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Enemies Like This
    Their problem? Others have overtaken them. [17 Jun 2006, p.39]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Powder Burns
    After three Twilight albums that never lived up to his previous might, he's now hit paydirt. [13 May 2006, p.41]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    II
    A series of back-to-the-futurescapes that are both lush and subtly unnerving. [29 Jul 2006, p.29]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Types Of Wood
    So unashamedly beaming with the spirit of 1991 that it should be wearing a flannel shirt and a woozy expression. [22 Apr 2006, p.41]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Gold
    Mason falls a touch short of the mark. [27 May 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bang Bang Rock & Roll
    This is both a fine and fun album. [21 May 2005, p.65]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    St. Elsewhere
    You certainly won't hear much else at the moment as inventive as this.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Living With War
    Really, what's to be gained from simplistic sloganeering like, "We don't need no more lies!" [20 May 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Spell
    Again finds them excelling in the art of morbidity. [27 May 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Just Like The Fambly Cat
    This is Americana of the highest order. [20 May 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
    Easy to admire, but hard to really love. [27 May 2006, p.31]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stadium Arcadium
    Somewhere along the line the Chilis got sophisticated on our asses.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surprise
    This surprise is an entirely pleasant one. [27 May 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eyes Open
    Gone completely is any passing trace of the grubby, US college rock that made them so beloved underground when the real world wasn't taking notice. In its place, is an awful lot of big, blustery ballads.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Without Feathers
    Yet another Next Flaming Lips emerges from beneath the librarian's skirts. In the 'Neon Bible' section, of course.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gulag Orkestar
    A record of rare and strange beauty. [4 Nov 2006, p.33]
    • New Musical Express (NME)
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Serena-Maneesh
    Shoegazing in origin, barn-storming in conclusion. [24 Jun 2006, p.43]
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