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On average, this publication grades 0.8 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 72
| Highest review score: | Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Let Me Introduce My Friends |
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Gone is the Suede-lite of The Tears. Instead we get acoustic guitars, lush string arrangements and the previously cagey Anderson pouring his heart out. [Apr 2007, p.92]- Uncut
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Rarely has anyone making such exciting and fashionable music been so unapologetic about being mature, too. [Apr 2007, p.97]- Uncut
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[The album] adds a newfound sang-froid to their quiet/loud approach. [May 2007, p.100]- Uncut
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They may have defined a genre, but Low can clearly still move forward. [May 2007, p.99]- Uncut
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Living With The Living finds them at their most assured. [Apr 2007, p.113]- Uncut
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Despite a top-drawer guest list, this often feels like empty bombast. [Mar 2007, p.98]- Uncut
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For those willing to take a chance, it's an impeccably realised, verbose treat. [Apr 2007, p.99]- Uncut
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Most of the album sees producers Charles Webster and Ewan Pearson buiilding on the bedsit rave of "Missing" and the beatific drum'n'bass of Walking Wounded. [Apr 2007, p.120]- Uncut
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The over-shiny, repetitive beats and the carefree, happy-skippy persona soon palls. [Apr 2007, p.120]- Uncut
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Weathered and intelligent, these songs resonate like folk antiquities from another age. Even more remarkably, they never sound forced. [Apr 2007, p.116]- Uncut
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Surely--surely!--this is an elaborate hoax. [Oct 2006, p.110]- Uncut
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Historically confused it may be, but the simple pleasures of Turn The Lights Out are hard to deny. [Apr 2007, p.115]- Uncut
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[Herrema's] songs still have the fuzzy weirdness of prime Trux, but now they're chunky, determined and fully formed, too. [Apr 2007, p.115]- Uncut
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Largely, this one is a case of nice threads, shame about the songs. [Apr 2007, p.115]- Uncut
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While never musically abrasive, [it] is riddled with enough trademark lyrical barbs and sung with sufficient Eartha Kitt-ish snarl that the listening is never too easy. [Nov 2006, p.134]- Uncut
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Their witty pop vignettes are about as much fun as you can have alone with a stereo. [Oct 2006, p.109]- Uncut
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Parts of Myth Takes [are] as close to commercial... as !!! can get without combusting. [Apr 2007, p.92]- Uncut
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While there is much here to admire, at its overblown worst Neon Bible is one of those records that takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously. [Apr 2007, p.90]- Uncut
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Candylion is a more layered, fully-realised album than 2005's Yr Atal Genhedlaeth. [Feb 2007, p.79]- Uncut
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Son Volt have discovered a new sense of ambition, even abandon, on The Search. [May 2007, p.104]- Uncut
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The problem with The Weirdness is that it shoots its bolt immediately and has nothing left to offer. [Apr 2007, p.93]- Uncut
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It's frequently wistful, sad and nostalgic. Yet Cooder's eccentric storytelling style and his prankish, Sufjan Stevens-ish take on Americana also sounds oddly contemporary. [Apr 2007, p.99]- Uncut
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The powerful tunes make this an odd thing: a subtle album, fit for stadiums. [Mar 2007, p.83]- Uncut
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It's essentially a pop record--albeit a complex and cleverly arranged one. [Apr 2007, p.115]- Uncut
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A winning hybrid of indie neuroses and Brill Building craft, precision and intimacy. [Apr 2007, p.120]- Uncut
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The results have a clinical, cerebral appeal, but--perhaps predictably--sometimes fail to deliver instinctive musical kicks. [Mar 2007, p.100]- Uncut
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If the Valentines' inspired drone-rock of "Hammond" suggests a more stoned Spiritualized, their commercial future will depend on refining relentless glam-stomps "This Mess" and "Steal Their Gold." [May 2007, p.115]- Uncut
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The Calling finds her in fine voice, nestling somewhere between Shawn Colvin and Helen Reddy. [Apr 2007, p.116]- Uncut
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Overall... the mood remains one of pleasant inconsequence. [Apr 2007, p.94]- Uncut
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There is little to these songs besides Mark's Lennon-like voice and an unobtrusive piano and guitar. [Apr 2007, p.113]- Uncut
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Arrangements range from scraped guitars to epic brass fanfares and, unusually for an album about loners, there's no misanthropy. [Mar 2007, p.86]- Uncut
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All Of A Sudden... rather falls under the shadow of Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but there's ample majesty in its climactic moments to recommend it. [Mar 2007, p.79]- Uncut
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If he sometimes misfires... K-OS at least has inventiveness in his sights. [May 2007, p.96]- Uncut
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Imagine Bolan produced by Prince, then scrambled by Beck, and you're only halfway there. [Mar 2007, p.85]- Uncut
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It's less gonzoid than previous efforts and more effective for that. [Mar 2007, p.79]- Uncut
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In his own way, Swift is as vivid a newcomer as Joanna Newsom or early Rufus Wainwright. [Mar 2007, p.84]- Uncut
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These articulate odes to pop's past strike the right balance between carefully studied craft and melodic inspiration. [Mar 2007, p.83]- Uncut
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Combine[s] utterly maddening complexity with candyfloss pop hooks. [Jun 2007, p.108]- Uncut
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An album of sometimes stark simplicity, West is in many places rather drab and charmless. [Mar 2007, p.72]- Uncut
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New Magnetic Wonder can make a claim to be the definitive AIS album. [Apr 2007, p.92]- Uncut
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For an album that strives to articulate the youthful pleasure-rush of love, drugs, and power, this is a worryingly pedestrian effort. [Mar 2007, p.75]- Uncut
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A brave endeavour. But unlike My Chemical Romance's Black Parade, Infinity On High has critically little sense of its own ridiculousness. [Mar 2007, p.79]- Uncut
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The added zip only serves to spotlight her stark, moody delivery. [Mar 2007, p.98]- Uncut
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Her songwriting here... demonstrates a depth and majesty previously absent in her work. [Mar 2007, p.82]- Uncut
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For all its weird dissonance, Sermon...'s musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it's her best work in three decades. [Mar 2007, p.98]- Uncut
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Another sly masterstroke by the canniest widow in rock. [May 2007, p.103]- Uncut
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For the most part, this Stockholm outfit's sun-streaked, clever-white-boy pop-funk catches a season as expusitely as Air did circa Moon Safari, or as Hot Chip have more recently. [Aug 2006, p.104]- Uncut
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Too often, Aereogramme's tastefulness veers on the side of caution. [Mar 2007, p.75]- Uncut
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This may just be [the] finest pop break-up album since [Justin] Timberlake's Justified. [Aug 2006, p.95]- Uncut
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What's especially daring about Not Too Late is the degree to which Jones and [producer Lee] Alexander trust their songs and her languorous voice to hold the listener's interest. [Feb 2007, p.75]- Uncut
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RoadKillOvercoat fattens his usual oblique rhymes into even more demanding, bombastic forms. [Apr 2007, p.93]- Uncut
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Over time, vocalist Aaron Ross stands out as the weak link, his voice merely shrill and average. [Apr 2007, p.102]- Uncut
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Stuttering breakbeats, looped effects and suffusive psychedelia. [Feb 2007, p.72]- Uncut
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Cadogan's threesome seem an altogether leaner, meaner deal. [Feb 2007, p.78]- Uncut
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The result is akin to walking in the woods alone at midnight--both spooky and compelling. [Nov 2006, p.104]- Uncut
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Clearly, appealing quirks can easily become irksome affectations. [Apr 2007, p.94]- Uncut
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The biggest surprise is how rarely this scratch supergroup really swings to its full potential. [Feb 2007, p.68]- Uncut
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Wincing isn't so much a departure as it is an all-out augmentation, taking the best things about The Shins and amplifying them. [Feb 2007, p.72]- Uncut
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At best, Hissing Fauna... posits its creator as the missing link between Hot Chip and Morrissey. [Mar 2007, p.88]- Uncut
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Reuniting her ex-bandmates adds a rock impetus to Doiron's more fragile solo work. [Feb 2007, p.74]- Uncut
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Like its predecessor, the most impressive aspect of The Enemy Chorus is not so much the breadth of its references as the tumescent, head-spinning harmonies. [Feb 2007, p.74]- Uncut
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Though garlanded in elegant strings, it's as furiously seething a record as she's made in 20 years. [Mar 2007, p.82]- Uncut
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This wonderful record already feels like a cult classic. [Feb 2007, p.88]- Uncut
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This largely instrumental set is a nicely ambient version of their usual hellacious harmonics, but also a reminder how the band have attained creative control on a major label. [Feb 2007, p.85]- Uncut
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Another terrific collection, tacking a stylish course between Jam and Lewis, Zapp and raving crunk. [May 2007, p.88]- Uncut
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Concise at 12 tracks, the stylistic coherence seldom fails to engage. [Feb 2007, p.73]- Uncut
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The band seem to have suffered a who-are-we?-style mid-life crisis. [Jan 2007, p.100]- Uncut
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A dense and abrasive record of astonishing precocity, which, if it has a fault, is only that it occasionally offers brute intensity in excess of the impact Pemberton's razor-sharp verses. [Oct 2008, p.87]- Uncut
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Whilst a gift for converting arrogance into entertainment has always been one of Jay-Z’s strongest suits, Kingdom Come skirts perilously close to the showboating that marred 2002’s bloated double album, The Blueprint 2.- Uncut
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Beast Moans can be drowsy at times... but it's punctuated by bursts of poetic insight and near-orgasmic glee. [Jan 2007, p.103]- Uncut
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If the scale is almost beyond comprehension, Love also represents a sonic Da Vinci Code for Beatles trainspotters. [Dec 2006, p.104]- Uncut
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It's remarkable... how much of a piece the entire set is, reflecting how skilfully Waits has welded the various tributary styles of his art into a seamless whole. [Dec 2006, p.122]- Uncut
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Snoop's patter soon descends into G-funk pastiche and cretinous misogyny. [Feb 2007, p.85]- Uncut
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The tone is generally one of mild encouragement, of jollying-along the reluctant participants in this most fraught of celebrations, as indicated by titles like "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!" and "It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!".- Uncut
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Their scratchily rhythmic guitar music with dour, sardonic vocals has proved immensely influential. [Dec 2006, p.114]- Uncut
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For the 56 minutes that "Ys" lasts, all the doubts evaporate. Every elaboration has a purpose, every labyrinthine melodic detour feels necessary rather than contrived. Tempting as it is to fixate on the gilded reputations of her associates, this is unequivocally Newsom’s album.- Uncut
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