The Wire's Scores
- Music
For 2,879 reviews, this publication has graded:
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51% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
| Highest review score: | SMiLE | |
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| Lowest review score: | Amazing Grace |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,404 out of 2879
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Mixed: 455 out of 2879
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Negative: 20 out of 2879
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The posthumous tracks that have emerged are among the best of Hendrix's late work. [Apr 2013, p.50]- The Wire
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Krlic combines a flexible approach with an impressive deftness of touch, and Excavation sees him feeling out new ways through the shadows. [Apr 2013, p.50]- The Wire
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This is classic David Grubbs--which is to say a joy, but also that it's unbashedly disparate. [Apr 2013, p.50]- The Wire
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There's a much larger keyboard profile on this new album.... Whether this is a positive or negative shift depends on where you're sitting. [Apr 2013, p.48]- The Wire
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Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst sings over roughly half the album, but his melodies are about as memorable as weak tea. [Mar 2013, p.64]- The Wire
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Mogwai eschew their trademark squall and fuzz for measured and clenched guitar chords, echoed piano notes and eerie arpeggios of guitar that stalk unresolved through a stark, naked soundscape. [Mar 2013, p.62]- The Wire
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The effect of these new elements is to bring a new solemnity and calm to Pioulard's already gentle brand of blissed out songwriting. [Mar 2013, p.62]- The Wire
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Clubbers might find Swanson's approach dilettantish.... In letting this set closer sprawl out, though, he happens on a spinning wormhole of spitting snares and abrasive Konono No 1-like melodies that's sulphuric in its intensity. [Mar 2013, p.60]- The Wire
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An album whose fragmentary and ephemeral structure is mirrored in its often ethereal, distant sound. [Mar 2013, p.54]- The Wire
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It's a dated sound but they stick to it with the tenacity of musicians who can't do anything else. [Mar 2013, p.50]- The Wire
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Off The Record's off the cuff feel would probably appall his former comrades but it lends the music an appealing immediacy. [Mar 2013, p.48]- The Wire
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The Invisible Way has Wilco's Jeff Tweedy behind the faders, and he superbly captures the concentrated simplicity of Low's aesthetic. But sometimes the restricted palettes can be a little cloying,[Mar 2013, p.56]- The Wire
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It's an engaging excursion and a good aesthetic fit for the Blackest Ever Black label, but not really a definitive Prurient release, and ultimately Through The Window leaves the impression of the closing of a chapter, a passage to someplace new. [Feb 2013, p.54]- The Wire
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With Exai they've created a work which reveals renewed faith in their own identity and which should act as compass in years to come. [Mar 2013, p.57]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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The tracks are curiously undramatic, punching elements in and out like a demonstration reel. [Mar 2013, p.54].- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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Moore runs the risk of seeming absorbed in some kind of midlife episode, but he gets away with it by deploying punk spunk as just one of an arsenal of countercultural referents rather than as a means to regain or revisit his youth. [Mar 2013, p.50]- The Wire
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Long Island may be their heaviest album--some songs introduce enough distortion to qualify as Stoner Metal in the vein of Fu Manchu or Nebula, But for the most part, they do exactly what their name says, grinding along like 1975 will never come. [Feb 2013, p.50]- The Wire
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Keef [has] formidable talent for writing hooks (and tracks) that are both naggingly catchy and strangely joyless. [Feb 2013, p.61]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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Rocky synthesises the cutting edge experiments of his peers into a more commercially polished product that lacks the eccentricity of its influences but is uniquely out there when compared to most mainstream fare. [Feb 2013, p.61]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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Its balance of electronic, acoustic and vocal elements, while initially impressive, is soon revealed to be a product of the lack of any forceful musical or textual elements at all. [Feb 2013, p.60]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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His arch over-emoting robs his songs of any sense of genuine feeling. [Feb 2013, p.60]- The Wire
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Ashin, in giving so much of himself away, leaves little scope for the kind of mystery that might enable his musical settings to transcend their functional pop status. [Feb 2013, p.60]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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Most of this material has a tense, enervating effect, despite the haziness of the sonic palette Field-Pickering favours. [Feb 2013, p.60]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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As interesting for what it carries over from the past as for the future it foreshadows. [Feb 2013, p.47]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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In spite of daft moments, the chilly shimmer of Push The Sky Away works its magic. [Feb 2013, p.45]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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The Twigs sound tough and robust, ready to take on the whole world rather than cultivate one small part of it. [Feb 2013, p.45]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013 -
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[Foxx's] legacy has come to be revered, with his influence on electronic music recognised by the likes of The Orb and LFO. Evidence, Foxx's third album in 3 years with The Maths, provides plenty of evidence why. The tracks and crafted and atmospheric. [Mar 2013, p.55]- The Wire
Posted Feb 28, 2013