Record Collector's Scores
- Music
For 2,550 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
| Highest review score: | Doctrine Of Love | |
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| Lowest review score: | Relaxer |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,695 out of 2550
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Mixed: 849 out of 2550
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Negative: 6 out of 2550
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Forgiveness Is Yours is without question the band's best album to date, full of surprising diversions and even more surprising musical ideas that sometimes border on the sophisticated. Even though there's little uniformity, it hangs together nicely and is always intriguing, like a series of vignettes or short stories. [May 2024, p.104]- Record Collector
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There's a floating eeriness to The Night Sky while near-title track Traveller Of Time & Space is a dreamy, wistful wonder. [May 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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On their 15th attempt, producer James Ford rides the faders and filters to shape Chris Lowe's synths into the perfect balance of modernity and timelessness. [May 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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Hutchings fashions a series of pastoral soundscapes dominated by breathy flutes. It's not all a case of sonic stasis and folky bucolic minimalism, though, as Body To Inhabit proves, lit up by rapper Elucid's verbal fireworks. [May 2024, p.105]- Record Collector
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Congo Funk! Sound Madness from the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)Another crack compilation from Analog Africa. [May 2024, p.99]- Record Collector
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While older and greyer, Les Savy Fav's fun, raucous and occasionally silly sound remains largely intact. [May 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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The more the album continues, the more these become influences absorbed and owned, the sound of a band not so much reinventing as realigning themselves. [Apr 2024, p.100]- Record Collector
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Frontwoman Beth Ditto, as close to a truly classic soul singer as alternative music has served up in the 21st century, is on sumptuous form, at turns forceful and tender as she contemplates love and self-affirmation. [Apr 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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It's a sleek, hypnotically danceable collection of nicely-crafted tunes; a pan-Afro-pean pop record undercut with electronic ingenuity. [Apr 2024, p.102]- Record Collector
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Wherever you listen, ideas accrue: given a gleaming production by Tunng's Mike Lindsay, Springs ... contains outsider art-pop multitudes. [Apr 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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It's an often dense listen, but with enough light and shade to ease the passage of its makers social conscience lyrics. [Apr 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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Their legs haven't gone entirely, but this feels more weathered warhorse than Warhol. [Apr 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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Her music and mesmerising voice also alight upon jazz-folk (Get Wise), sparse rock (Blood Bond) and orchestral indie-rock (Desire Path), building a positively cinematic collection which speaks softly but firmly of the state of the world today. [Apr 2024, p.105]- Record Collector
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It's the sound of an endlessly curious mind in love with the possibilities of sonics and melody and a very welcome reinvention. [Apr 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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The result, which she deemed an "experiment in collaboration", is Lenker's most relatable to date. [Apr 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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At times it's near pure pop--the slow, echoing Queen Of Hearts and the synth sensations of Honey while Superstar sees the voice soaring above an electronica rhythm. Self Love is a blistering guitar rocker while the near five-minute title track switches from balladry to boisterous roars. A fitting finale. [Mar 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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Neither classic comeback nor addled disaster, it's hopefully a stepping stone to again becoming a functioning exciting live act and more productive studio band. [Mar 2024, p.105]- Record Collector
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Overall, the album's sense of play is strong and, like its predecessor, the good ultimately wins out. [Mar 2024, p.102]- Record Collector
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A spare but slippery showcase of spontaneous-seeming instinct. [Mar 2024, p.105]- Record Collector
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Their seventh effort might start with short, low-key ballad Bluebird but that turns out to be a complete misnomer for an album chock-full of effervescent indie anthems and buoyant guitars. [Mar 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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While there's no shortage of ideas buzzing around these tracks they often have a tendency to come across as incomplete; meanders down sonic and lyrical avenues that fall just short of feeling whole. [Mar 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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It rattles along at a fine old pace, awash with cheek and charm, and is genuinely touching on paean to lifelong friendships The Lads. [Mar 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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Their 19th studio album captures the dynamism of Firepower but tweaks the structure a little so that the material is no less heavy but is perhaps less predictable. [Mar 2024, p.103]- Record Collector
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Krieger still has an ear for organists, and moody interplay with Ed Roth, as on the track Samosas & Kingfishers, remains his comfort zone. More genteel than their name would suggest, The Savages are nonetheless consummate players, with textured grooves at their dexterous fingertips. [Mar 2024, p.104]- Record Collector
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The brisk Don't Forget You're Mine harbours a dicier wake-up call ("A good slap is what you need"), though the Wurlitzer-enhanced La Nageuse Nue reunites with The Choir to advocate "a cleansing": becalmed advice for a troubled world on a coolly composed album of healing and harmony. [Mar 2024, p.105]- Record Collector
Posted Jun 10, 2024