The Quietus' Scores

  • Music
For 2,374 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Promises
Lowest review score: 0 Lulu
Score distribution:
2374 music reviews
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unrepentant Geraldines has an irresistible lightness of touch about it: its charms initially seem modest next to the towers of ambition Amos has previously created, but the generosity of melody and sheer prettiness of the sound wins through in the end.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of Collins' finest work can be found here.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With The Gradual Progression, one definitely gets the sense that Fox is making an unselfconscious attempt to forge forward with music, an unabashed statement for progression. Though it’s not entirely successful, one has to admire this kind of ambition. He’s made an album that’s hard to describe in both generic and theoretical terms.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s a wonderfully dexterous and developed body of work that gives more of itself with each listen.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whether by accident or design, Wooden Head is a charming record. It oozes gentle optimism--evoking, in its quiet euphoria, some halcyon aural safe place of lush hazy sunshine.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Everything Ever Written is a welcome return for a band that's long been held in high regard.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The detail is wonderful, ghostly and rich, but the whole would have benefited from a clearer, less meandering navigator.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In the case of Serpent Music, its magpie aesthetic can leave certain areas feeling improperly unearthed. This instinctual approach could have resulted in an uneven work, but works far more often than not.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eleven great tracks out of twelves is a handsome return though, and the listener must surely delight in the fact that Harvey isn’t done with Gainsbourg just yet.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While the record as a whole rewards revisit, the excitement concerning its many idiosyncrasies inevitably levels off. And yet, that initial pang of shock never fully subsides.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While at times Flat White Moon struggles to match the awe-striking levels of the album’s opening track, there’s still plenty to enjoy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Its [Daydream Repeat’s] arrival as fourth track brings a welcome levity to proceedings and you sort of wish there was more of it. Nevertheless, if Three is predictable in its lack of surprises, in Hebden’s case, that can only mean what’s on offer is sturdy and assured.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What's changed here is that the Weavers are now more than just writers of music; they are now enablers of specific atmospheres, able to handhold a listener through incredibly dense forest in very low light.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Silver/Lead is an exhibition in restraint whose brilliant corners and burrowing phrases reward both the keen ear and repeated listen.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whatever tack they take Boo’s tracks are solid, heavyweight constructions that work as well as home listening as they would in a club
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There’s a few too many repeated melodies, and too few differing musical moods. Still, this is a reliably impressive package from a man who knows his business, and crucially still has something to say. It’s Prime Numan in his prime.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Escapology is eccentric, full of twists and turns, screechy, glitchy and ambitious – undoubtedly a rare breed. After you complete the final mission, you are finally immersed in the artificial soundscape of closer ‘T-Divine’. The closing credits roll in. You have managed to escape and survive. Ultimately though, the listening experience does not transport me into a hyperstitional future. I feel more catapulted into an alternative past, which was polluted with fragments and ideas from the future we are inhabiting at the moment.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gliss Riffer is a magnifying glass held to that opening in one hand and an opium pill twirling between his index and ring fingers in the other, egging on the impending lucid dream that's been in the works for years. He's only now offering an audacious embrace.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prurient's Through The Window, a three-cut techno tour-de-force released this month on the Blackest Ever Black imprint, is at once limiting and liberating.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In A Dream is certainly not going to alienate those who adored The Future Will Come, yet it should be said there are notable points of evolution--most importantly Whang's prominence and the diversity of Maclean's songwriting. But it is difficult to place this above The Future Will Come, as despite the brilliance that Whang radiates throughout, there are up to three songs that sap momentum with their lack of vim.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite the high quality of the arrangements, the orchestration and the recording as a whole, it is a bit too much at once. A case of less would have been more.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that ought to be regarded as a creative peak for Suede, easily reaching the heights of their 90s best.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those who had their hearts set on another batch of coy, cloudy electro-pop from the Swedish singer/songwriter might consider the song [Gunshot!] a bummer, but for the rest of us, it and the other eight tracks that comprise I Never Learn make for a stirring, pristinely rendered expression of heartache.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pain: the quintessential Deaf Wish family album.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Don Of Diamond Dreams feels imbued with a sense that alternative realities – different ways of telling stories, different mythologies to reflect our true nature – are always within our reach, if only we’re able to fully embrace our own imaginations.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond the impressive list of guest stars though, this is an album that reflects on one person’s history and is steeped in honesty, grief and empathy as a result.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Put simply, Redemption is an impressively ambitious record, and its to Richard’s credit that she pulls it off as a cohesive piece of work.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The more cultivated recording process allowed textures such as strings, Tacular's accordion and Moore's sonorous and charismatic vocals to assume a richness that has not been heard before.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Pearl Mystic is the best British psychedelic album since the 1990s; maybe more than that.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A quiet brilliance beams throughout Wild Crush, its manifest qualities on display for all to see, if they would only look.