The Skinny's Scores
- Music
For 1,342 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Exactly as It Seems | |
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Lowest review score: | Heartworms |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 886 out of 1342
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Mixed: 451 out of 1342
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Negative: 5 out of 1342
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The beats are heavy, spare, and hard. Lamar demonstrates the versatility of his flow.- The Skinny
- Posted Jul 5, 2017
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Skeleton Tree might be, to flip the phrase, a mile deep and an inch wide. The lyrics are often beautiful, and when he can be concrete, Cave conjures unforgettable, living images.- The Skinny
- Posted Sep 12, 2016
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This album is littered with strangely beautiful imagery. ... Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is an exciting new milestone for Polachek.- The Skinny
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Taylor might not have been coming for the crown of pop star of the year, but with Prioritise Pleasure she’s certainly taken it.- The Skinny
- Posted Oct 19, 2021
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It's a fascinating second album from a band that feel genuinely unpredictable.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 31, 2022
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You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To exhibits a group confidently at their zenith with no signs of slowing down. Many predicted this could be the heavy release of the year – and it’s bloody hard to argue with that.- The Skinny
- Posted May 10, 2024
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An album that captures the rise and fall of restless youth in a fluorescent, dazzling city.- The Skinny
- Posted Jul 5, 2017
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Her voice is excellent throughout – defiant and unwavering over Littmann's production – and sonically it is patient, cinematic and hopeful. A refuge, perhaps, for anyone who has been on the receiving end of the confounding and cosmic world of grief.- The Skinny
- Posted Jul 5, 2023
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This record, like the band behind it, repeatedly and successfully refuses genrefication in its ambitiousness.- The Skinny
- Posted Jun 4, 2021
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If I don't make it, I love u is magnificent, the peak of their recorded output to date, the sound of a band solidifying and pushing forward into something genuinely their own. A truly brilliant piece of work.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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The album is truly extraordinary – it is a once-in-a-career masterpiece that synthesises difference through abstracted self-observation. It is a vehicle for making meaning, an invitation to try again.- The Skinny
- Posted Sep 11, 2023
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There is a timeless and timely feel to these tunes and it sounds as if something stately is stirring in West Kirby. Good health, indeed.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 8, 2024
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Converge may be slowing down in their output, but this is perhaps the band's best record since You Fail Me, keeping in mind the three albums in-between are not to be sniffed at.- The Skinny
- Posted Oct 31, 2017
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That! Feels Good! is a revved-up hedonistic joyride that extols and celebrates the sensual necessity of pleasure. Jessie is firmly in her lane here, and it’s a satisfying drive from start to finish.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 25, 2023
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- Posted Nov 18, 2021
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This is a carefully crafted, complex pop record that benefits from the production contributions of industry heavyweights like Nicole Morier (Britney), but undeniably it’s the new-fangled delivery and star appeal of Rina Sawayama that gives this album its sparkling essence.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 15, 2020
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On their debut album, I Love You Jennifer B, the duo show their beating heart, without sacrificing the chaos or creativity. ... It’s a labyrinth of a pop album.- The Skinny
- Posted Sep 6, 2022
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Florist already feels like an album to live and grow with. It's a warm hug which asks the listener to smell the flowers every now and then.- The Skinny
- Posted Jul 28, 2022
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- Posted May 25, 2022
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All Mirrors retains a good amount of iconic devastation. Olsen’s timeless, musing lyrics are wise as ever, if perhaps more cynical than before. Yet there is a new, almost paradoxical, quality to the sound, as though it comes both from the past and the future.- The Skinny
- Posted Sep 30, 2019
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The band’s excellent 2019 record Patience was full of self-flagellation, guttural outpouring and railing against abuse and injustice, but it ended on the hopeful budding of new love, a journey of breakdown and renewal. They continue on this record to wrap up extreme emotion in sonic confection.- The Skinny
- Posted Feb 27, 2024
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It’s testament to Clark’s self-assured and enigmatic oeuvre: indeed, she still holds surprises for us yet.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 26, 2024
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These musical twists and turns can occasionally detract from Christinzio’s lyrics, which veer between gallows humour and vulnerability. When the latter half of the album gives his words more room to breathe, their impact becomes even greater.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 17, 2020
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As its title suggests, Chris is a supremely confident introduction to the next phase of Christine and the Queens.- The Skinny
- Posted Sep 18, 2018
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She can’t do any wrong at the minute; this is timeless songwriting, and Tigers Blood is a worthy successor to Saint Cloud.- The Skinny
- Posted Mar 18, 2024
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Pink Noise is a John Hughes soundtrack just waiting for its film to be written and it’s a bold return from an artist with a point to prove.- The Skinny
- Posted Jun 30, 2021
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Meaty riffs, expertly orchestrated songwriting skills, arena-championing choruses, and delicate experimentation with metal nuances – this is Slipknot, and this is undoubtedly a Slipknot record. If you want We Are Not Your Kind to be heavy, you got it – but there’s far more craftsmanship hidden beneath the distortion.- The Skinny
- Posted Aug 7, 2019
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This debut LP sees English Teacher beginning to consolidate and take the already-delicious sounds introduced on their Polyawkward EP to even greater heights.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 9, 2024
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When Bright Green Field follows in the footsteps of their best track The Cleaner – supercharging the banal and mundane with vigour and purpose – it rips, mixing genres like straight-ahead indie-rock with funk and jazz, and exploring ambient and textural backdrops which make their now-home Warp apt.- The Skinny
- Posted May 3, 2021
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From the John Barry-esque orchestration of Reaching Out, to Talk Talk’s Lee Harris’s febrile percussion on Rewind, the album is full of richly detailed arrangements that allow Gibbons to free herself from the pull of Portishead’s past.- The Skinny
- Posted May 13, 2024
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