Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,876 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Dead Man's Pop [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Wake Up! |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,246 out of 3876
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Mixed: 601 out of 3876
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Negative: 29 out of 3876
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While it may be hard to place genre-wise, it’s not hard to see its quality and sense of ambition.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 6, 2024
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While it’d be difficult to proclaim it her finest work, ‘She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She’ is certainly Wolfe’s most ambitious and careful-constructed album. Deliciously-dramatic in its nocturnal flair, it cracks open a whole new set of tantalising sonic possibilities for Wolfe’s and her collaborators’ future.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 6, 2024
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The record holds a conciliatory anger at a civilisation that can’t save itself from itself. And through an exploration of war, bloodspill, loss and confusion Vera Sola has continued to tell her story, and invite us into her arresting world.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 1, 2024
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This is an album is subtle transition. Broadening the dynamic between light and shadow, rock crunch and synth splendour, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes grapple with their sound, oozing confidence at every turn.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 1, 2024
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It’s a delightful, towering debut that will indeed leave you ecstatic.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 1, 2024
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While hardly reinventing the wheel with ‘What Do We Do Now,’ J has yet again delivered a set of songs that only an enigma like he could.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 31, 2024
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Arresting, yet often unexpected, ‘Fairweather Friend’ pilfers from the indie pop lineage, while daring to stamp out a unique identity of its own.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 30, 2024
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A bold work of evolution, ‘EVERYBODY CAN’T GO’ utilises some fantastic production – notably from Hit-Boy – to piece together a seamless record, one that hauls his sound forwards into a fresh era.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 30, 2024
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One of Kirby’s key strengths is her lyrics, but even with her voice front and foremost her repeated appeal to “wait, wait, wait, listen” seems like it could be genuine. On the other hand, the fact that a first spin inspires a kind of relaxed inattention just makes ‘Blue Raspberry’ more of a slow burn, one which rewards listeners who come back for more.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 29, 2024
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‘What an enormous room’ is an amalgamation of its title: an expansive collection of tracks, difficult to define, but somehow remains undeniably TORRES.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 29, 2024
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Despite having to navigate different kinds of losses to get to this stage, Tucker and Brownstein have emerged stringently triumphant, their bond stronger and more unshakeable than ever.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 26, 2024
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As a debut, it cements the band as one with a long path ahead of them. As an album, it’s a deeply moving, mesmerizing work with themes that stick with you long after listening.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 26, 2024
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Future Islands’ fans will find plenty to love with this album, with some of the songs here already instant favourites and others feeling like some of the best, most fully realised of their career thus far.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 25, 2024
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A record of real depth, ‘Wall Of Eyes’ closes on a sombre note. Distinctive, melodic, and defined, ‘You Know Me’ doesn’t so much pull at the heartstrings as slice right through them, Thom Yorke’s voice dissolving into a mesh of strings. It’s a suitably potent moment to end the record on – poised and suggestive, it becomes a bridge from one phase, to something as yet uncharted.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 25, 2024
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Had it been trimmed down to ten or eleven tracks, then maybe we’d be talking about one of Green Day’s strongest releases. As it stands, ‘Saviors’ turns out to be a somewhat confident return to form, but one that also fails to build upon the records that inspired it.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 19, 2024
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‘Electrowavebaby’ is fun but doesn’t seem to add to his sound, while ‘Mr Coola’ feels a little dated. At its best, though, ‘Insano’ can be riveting.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 17, 2024
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A blockbuster that lives up to the hype, ‘american dream’ is 21 Savage at his most luminescent. In staying true to himself, he’s been able to build something unique – now he’s taking it to the world.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 17, 2024
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As with the twin EPs that preceded it, however, the glimpses of originality strewn across ‘Lovegaze’ are too often sparse islands in a sea of pleasant but generic etherea.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 12, 2024
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Whilst it might not be as immediately stunning as the mix of luscious synth pop and alternate universe James Bond themes on that album [Red Moon In Venus], she still shines on this record, code-switching between English and Romance and beat-switching between sultry R&B and sunny Latin party pop.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 12, 2024
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‘Iechyd Da’ is a forward-moving record rooted in love and loss, marking a significant chapter in the musician and producer’s career.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 9, 2024
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- Posted Jan 9, 2024
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The human condition and thus society is complex and difficult to navigate but Sprints have not been afraid to express uncertainty and vulnerability. And all the while they have enveloped these themes in the most glorious noise for us all to find comfort and lose ourselves in. Is it possible to have an album of the year contender on only the first week in? Of course it is.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 4, 2024
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While her debut could in places feel slight, this new record feels lived-in, and true.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 8, 2023
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Refusing to be hemmed in, it’s a record of real ambition, an example mirroring fan-pleasing tendencies with actual artistic growth. Sometimes the sequels really are better.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 8, 2023
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‘i/o’ takes us on a journey… of life and all of its experiences and is set to be one of Peter Gabriel’s greatest solo albums to date.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 1, 2023
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With a 19-track span and a colossal guest cast, not everything on ‘BLOCKBUSTA’ lands. There’s a feeling sometimes that these collaborations were done separately and then spliced together, with some moments lacking cohesion, or a sense of chemistry. ‘HOMAGE’ with Kodak Black feels flat, for example, while the record’s eclecticism prevents ‘BLOCKBUSTA’ from truly coalescing. That said, there are moments of real bravery.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 28, 2023
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The downside to the album is to appreciate it properly you need to play it front to back, no skipping. Whilst paying attention. This isn’t something to play in the background. You need to concentrate on it.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 22, 2023
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Kevin Abstract’s newest studio album continues to assert him as one of the greatest talents of this generation, an individual who eliminates conformity and remains earnest and candid, regardless of the sonic environment he visits.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 20, 2023
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Its primary strength lies in the way Drake threads himself and finds pockets within the grooves and crevices, foregoing lustre and grandiosity in favour of an understated performance piece. .... There’s an existential paranoia about this recent iteration of Drake, however.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 17, 2023
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This album is a step in the right direction in terms of mood, but it’s an overstep in terms of the emotional burden Brown is offering. The choruses are repetitive and don’t fit, and the take away should be focusing more on balance. However, it’s not a question of if he can get that balance right, but when.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 17, 2023
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