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
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thought Forms/Ebsen & The Witch
    Thought Forms' side peaks with the driving Sonic Youth riffs of ‘Sound Of Violence’ and the dizzying My Bloody Valentine lurch of ‘For The Moving Stars’.... Having left their label, [Esben And The Witch] are using crowdfunding to record their next album with Steve Albini, for which these raw tracks offer great.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Doom Abuse
    A good seven years out of date, Doom Abuse is pure synth-pop mania, frequently teetering between unadulterated Trent Reznor pop brilliance and impressions of Skrillex driving a monster truck through a Savages gig in a video arcade.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    So It Goes
    Here and there, though, it’s a bit of a grind.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tweens
    It’s far grubbier and more riotous than any high school musical.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PUP
    Intelligent and visceral in equal measure, PUP is effortlessly cool, charmingly nerdy and wholly brilliant.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wasted Years
    The pit-friendly snarl of ‘I Won’t Be A Casualty’ and ‘You Must Be Damned’ show that these guys are all still the real deal.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tremors
    Tremors is frustrating. But when the colours align it’s alluring and impressive.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Old Fears
    Old Fears provides a fascinating insight into the mind of an increasingly-indispensable pop polymath.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Future's Void
    Her most outward-looking work to date.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Enter the Slasher House
    This is one house of horrors that’s worth the ride.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Best of Times
    The London four-piece have never had trouble creating pretty atmospheres though; it’s contrasting them with a bolder hook, lyrical or otherwise, where they struggle.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ventura
    Slowly, their melodic smarts outweigh their influences.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Baby
    She sounds like she’s having a bathroom hairbrush-singing party to which we’re all invited. These are sweet sweet fantasies, baby.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Soft Friday
    This is cold-blooded revenge pop that strikes like a shard of shattered plate to the heart.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cope
    Sustained power and little in the way of variety can make for quick fatigue, but at just 38 minutes long Cope has hooks and energy to spare.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bluebird
    If there’s anything wrong with Brooklyn-via-Kentucky singer-songwriter Dawn Landes’ seamless fifth album, it’s that it’s just too damn nice.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    You Can Do Better
    It’s business as usual with the release of their spaghetti-mess fourth.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wildewoman
    The moments of imperfection that let the album down come on ‘Two Of Us On The Run’ (as basic as acoustic songwriting gets) and ‘Until We Get There’ (just sounds like a Cults offcut), but there’s promise here.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Here and Nowhere Else
    The problem is simply the songs: route-one, four-chord grunge adrenaline hits that have none of the haunting and eerie dissonance that set them apart from bands like Wavves, and the rest of US indie’s surplus of breezy slacker-rockers last time around.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Out Among the Stars
    It remains a 1980s Johnny Cash album and it wasn’t until Rick Rubin got hold of him 10 years later that he came in from the cold.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Himalayan
    In turns more glam-indebted and more duskily evocative than anything they’ve previously offered up, Himalayan’s aims are as monumental as its title.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Range of Light
    It’s crisper and glistens with ambient atmosphere and mellow beats.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hot Dreams
    Though there are less standout moments than on previous records, it is a wonderfully cohesive whole that renders brooding menace into graceful songcraft.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Education, Education, Education & War
    Overall there is a sense that this is the sound of a band brushing their hair and fixing their make-up, trying to convince the world they're OK while secretly crumbling on the inside.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This Thing of Ours
    Despite this early start, she oozes a smoky maturity that bodes well for her debut, but unfortunately then shanks it off the fairways by prattling on about Air Max 90s and hanging on the District Line.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Divisionary
    Occasionally. the jaunty positivity treads too far into Edward Sharpe territory and all you’re left craving is a healthy slice of cynicism.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sun Choir
    Highly ambitious and original stuff, created in aid of the Scottish Love In Action charity.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Toujours
    The tunes--from the devilishly catchy title track to the clattering, anthemic ‘Viva L’Amour’ and the swoonsome, panoramic ‘Tabarly’, complete with romantic mariachi trumpets--are superb.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Each and Every One
    It’s far too long at 67 minutes, but that’s the price of free expression.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    World of Joy
    Tearing through its 10 songs in a shade under 28 minutes, World Of Joy sounds like a band straining themselves to top a personal best. Happily, they’ve managed it.
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