The Wire's Scores
- Music
For 2,912 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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7% same as the average critic
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43% 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: 2,433 out of 2912
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Mixed: 459 out of 2912
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Negative: 20 out of 2912
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There's a lot going on and while he never rises to anything as wakeful as a melody or a solid riff, there's still a satisfying level of control that keeps him two steps away from the minimalism plus heavy effects tendency of similar acts. [Oct 2011, p.65]- The Wire
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Dance album of this level of consistent quality are rare. Yet ultimately, no groove in this album particularly reach out and little new, different or memorable is offered for the imagination. [Oct 2011, p.65]- The Wire
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Patten's ability to conjure such urgency with out ever slipping into anything so easy as a typical groove goes some distance. [Oct 2011, p.65]- The Wire
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Abstract hiphop-heads might be turned off by the slick machismo, but others will have some good dirty fun. [Oct 2011, p.65]- The Wire
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In truth most of it is middling stuff. [Oct 2011, p.62]- The Wire
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What could have ended up sounding like sketches, are now completed pieces,m full of suspense flashback, refrains ad other temporal tricks. [Oct 2011, p.61]- The Wire
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By unplugging the effects and simply playing, they sound re-energized. [Oct 2011, p.61]- The Wire
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Even if the music remains fairly consistent, the concepts mark off more ambitious territories. [Oct 2011, p.60]- The Wire
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Musically, in other words, Strange Mercy delivers plenty of interest. What's not so convincing is the songwriting, specifically the lyrics. [Oct 2011, p.60]- The Wire
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Given the sprawling length, naturally it's not devoid of a few stray gems and curiosities. [Oct 2011, p.60]- The Wire
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A certain bass jumpiness is evident throughout these six tracks, a post-grunge melodic murkiness that is at once reassuring but also puts paid to elevating the record into the realms of the ethereal. [Oct 2011, p.58]- The Wire
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On How The Thing Sings, Orcutt reveals a more open vision. [Oct 2011, p.58]- The Wire
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Get Lost is no worse (and no better) than 2010's Living With Yourself. [Oct 2011, p.56]- The Wire
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These performances have been rightly cherished by collectors for decades. [Oct 2011, p.54]- The Wire
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Not a visionary rollercoaster thundering around the heavens, but a rewarding slow and subtle grower. [Oct 2011, p.53]- The Wire
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While nothing on III is exactly a soundtrack to sipping caipirinhas in the sun, there's also nothing about it that suggests grimacing theatrically on a darken dancefloor. [Oct 2011, p.52]- The Wire
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Th art here is ensuring that too much is in fact just enough, and Rustie is a master of it. [Oct 2011, p.51]- The Wire
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Season Of Earth is music rooted deep in the black, black earth and whose only limit is the blue, blue sky. [Oct 2011, p.50]- The Wire
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There's still plenty to enjoy on Tassilli, but desert blooms fade fast when overwatered. [Sep 2011, p.65]- The Wire
Posted Dec 5, 2011 -
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Though they're written to sound simple on the surface, PG Six's songs reveal an unusually high level of artistry on closer inspection. [Sep 2011, p.62]- The Wire
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They have a certain beauty, but it all feels sterile, airless. [Sep 2011, p.59]- The Wire
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This is the most introspective Wolves In The throne Room release to date. [Sep 2011, p59]- The Wire
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Rather than the sound of people battering against existing structures, Social Climbers exude comfort. [Sep 2011, p.58]- The Wire
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In lesser hands [it could have slipped into corny retro tropes], but In Dust is if anything even less indebted to past styles than last year's impressive self-titled debut. [Sep 2011, p.56]- The Wire
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It's actually more pleasurable to pick a track at random and leave it on loop. [Sep 2011, p.56]- The Wire
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Its utter ahistoricity is one of its more charming dimensions, in a "why not?" sort of way. [Sep 2011, p.52]- The Wire
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Bozulich's gloom is top quality gloom, as far as that goes, but nothing here lights up the heart like [2008's] Voyager's blistering "Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space." [Sep 2011, p.51]- The Wire
Posted Dec 5, 2011