New Musical Express (NME)'s Scores
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For 6,298 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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: | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | |
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| Lowest review score: | Maroon |
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Positive: 4,465 out of 6298
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Mixed: 1,680 out of 6298
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Negative: 153 out of 6298
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Trading bolshy indie for pin-drop lullabies and pedal steel guitars, 'Whiskey Tango Ghosts' is Donelly's 'I'm a full-time mum and dammit I'm happy' record. [24 Jul 2004, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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A record which is closer in spirit to the rustic eccentricity of his '...Bewilderbeast' debut, while still moving things forward. [19 Jun 2004, p.57]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Kittie are rubbish, with a permanent lyrical setting of "Feel A Bit Miserable, Parents Don't Understand Me" and no original ideas whatsoever. [21 Aug 2004, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Hushed vocals, strummed guitars, creeping cello, and an all-encompassing sense of politeness are the order of the day. [19 Jun 2004, p.57]- New Musical Express (NME)
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By celebrating what it is to be a freak in 2004 they've made a debut that's unique yet uniting, deep yet designed for the dance-floor.- New Musical Express (NME)
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Sadly, The (I)NC have mistaken the ultra-safe sound of maximum R&B for the scream of revolution. [24 Jul 2004, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Don't start here before the essential LPs... But once you've fallen in love (and believe us, it's inevitable), this is a mesmerising next stop. [17 Jul 2004, p.48]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Thirty minutes of chugging and howling, you go from one killer riff to another with barely a millisecond to recover. [17 Jul 2004, p.46]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Strange, out of time, unfashionable, eccentric, obsessed with found sound, full of boffiny tics and tricks. [24 Jul 2004, p.48]- New Musical Express (NME)
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A happy, penguin-chilled sunset beach barbecue of a collection. [3 Jul 2004, p.65]- New Musical Express (NME)
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An enormous, symphonic, sprawling, highly ambitious, far-reaching work of wonder. [17 Jul 2004, p.48]- New Musical Express (NME)
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More of the same from an act who have been ploughing the same furrow for so long they'll be reaching the Earth's core soon. [5 Jun 2004, p.57]- New Musical Express (NME)
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At least 40 per cent of 'The Spine' is really rather charming. [3 Jul 2004, p.65]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Deceptively inventive, darkly melodic Simon & Garfunkel and (Elliott) Smithisms. [4 Sep 2004, p.72]- New Musical Express (NME)
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The Tipping Point has more soul, vision and musicianship than most bands muster in a lifetime. [31 Jul 2004, p.41]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Ultimately 'Porcelain' proves that there's more to great bands than good musicianship. [10 Jul 2004, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Oddly for an album so big in scope... it's very intimate and confessional. [3 Jul 2004, p.64]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Startling from the first listen... the band are heavier, more menacing, more rhythmic than ever. [19 Jun 2004, p.55]- New Musical Express (NME)
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If you like your rock with sawdust on the floor and blood in its mouth, this is as good as it gets. [14 Aug 2004, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Full of banging beats, big noise and abundant wit and joy. [26 Jun 2004, p.55]- New Musical Express (NME)
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An understated classic: a triumph of delicacy over decibels. [19 Jun 2004, p.56]- New Musical Express (NME)
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An assured debut that scores as much for what it doesn't do as it does for its low-key, insidious rhymes and chrome-gleaming rhythmical clatter. [24 Jul 2004, p.49]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Zooming sheets of spacious wind-tunnel prog and raw, solo-spattered soul. Commercially, it's suicide. [26 Jun 2004, p.55]- New Musical Express (NME)
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It's like Scissor Sisters on tranquilisers. With a bit of ELO. And a dash of Ramones. And, with this eclecticism, a worrying lack of focus. [5 Jun 2004, p.57]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Goswell's voice... is a rich wonder in itself; and unlike every other singer-songwriter in the world, she sounds nothing like Nick Drake! [26 Jun 2004, p.55]- New Musical Express (NME)
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Wilson's voice is a sorry wisp of what it once was. [19 Jun 2004, p.57]- New Musical Express (NME)
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The immediate reference point would be a Swedish Coral to the power of ten--but it's more mental, more hippy and psychedelic. [14 May 2005, p.67]- New Musical Express (NME)