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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Buck's refusal to recognise musical boundaries and his instinctive ability to pick out elements that work together--sometimes surprisingly so--have given us a genre-bending album of high artistic vision, spit and grit. [#258, p.52]- The Wire
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The mood is always unsettled and unsettling, either furious or fragile. [#258, p.67]- The Wire
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Some of these tracks have a stark, haunting beauty that marks them out as perfectly realised compositions in their own right. [#258, p.68]- The Wire
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A richly nuanced album, and eloquent in its restraint. [#257, p.57]- The Wire
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Hebden is a voracious consumer and producer of ideas, although there is sometimes the feeling, amid all this glut and gusto, that they're ideas for idea's sake. [#256, p.54]- The Wire
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Even when the songs aren't motivated by anger or frustration, they have a drive and a momentum that's breathtaking. [#256, p.52]- The Wire
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Caught somewhere between the big yucks and the thoughtful overview are moments of genuine strangeness that are both captivating and unsettling. [#255, p.59]- The Wire
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The ideas are better realised here than on [Why?'s] earlier material. [#258, p.67]- The Wire
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It's clear... that the quartet... are growing in confidence and ideas. [#256, p.54]- The Wire
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Niblett takes the old quiet-loud dynamic and stretches it to unexpected lengths. [#258, p.68]- The Wire
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This intriguing, relatively mild entente between elegiac melodicism and freeform lyrics has many moments of quiet innovation. [#256, p.63]- The Wire
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The only drawback to this semi-collage approach is that many tracks are too brief. [#256, p.51]- The Wire
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If anything, however, Autechre have pulled back the throttle on their excursions into the unknown. [#254, p.53]- The Wire
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This decidedly literate songcraft has a range of ancestors, including Talking Heads, Sparks and David Grubbs, but three albums along, The Books are nailing down a distinctive soundworld of their own. [#254, p.54]- The Wire
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It begins as quite a thrilling ride. But at this level of concentration, ten minutes feels like an hour; it soon becomes enervating. [#255, p.55]- The Wire
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The Residents walk a precarious line between American underbelly creepiness and a more mannered absurdism. [#254, p.63]- The Wire
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Darkness At Noon works because it doggedly pursues its convictions through to a satisfying conclusion and in doing so creates its own kind of offbeat logic. [#254, p.53]- The Wire
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There are, unsurprisingly, great contrasts in material and quality. [#254, p.54]- The Wire
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Pop itself is not a problem, it's just that in Tarwater's take on it nagging tunes and interesting textures are in short supply. [#253, p.65]- The Wire
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Imagine cLOUDDEAD jamming with Wilco, with David Lynch producing, and you're only halfway there. [#257, p.70]- The Wire
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If Brian Wilson had crashed a motorcycle and holed up to recuperate at Big Pink with The Band, this is how The Basement Tapes would have sounded. [#256, p.49]- The Wire
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Immaculately interwoven electronics and the care with which each beautifully recorded track unfolds recall Chicago post-rock. [#254, p.53]- The Wire
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The slippery polyrhythmic music is a difficult terrain for MCs to conquer. [#253, p.57]- The Wire
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One imagines Blue Eyed In The Red Room might serve as an alternative soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. [#252, p.47]- The Wire
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