Beats Per Minute's Scores
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For 1,713 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: | Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] | |
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Lowest review score: | If Not Now, When? |
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Positive: 1,564 out of 1713
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Mixed: 131 out of 1713
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Negative: 18 out of 1713
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Sigur Rós have already proven themselves across their lengthy career, and now, they’re peaking their heads out yet again and making clear they shouldn’t be counted out.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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This album finishes right when it needs to. Any longer and there might be a genuine risk of someone having a hernia from all the physical carousing. As it is, we leave this magical island fully refreshed and filled with self satisfaction.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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The 10-song, 34-minute project crescendos, Powers perfecting his multifaceted craft while forging one of 2023’s more hypnotic sequences.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 16, 2023
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This collection of radiant jangle pop songs, burdened by nostalgic love and depressive yearning for something real, ultimately loses its luster. Everything else blends into one garbled, hazy murmur that ensues without much variance.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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Squeezing 11 songs into 26 minutes is no easy task but somehow Feeble Little Horse manage to give each gem a personality and identity.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 14, 2023
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Joy’All feels so light that, despite some of its heavier themes and perfectly-enjoyable atmosphere, it sounds like it’s a couple seconds from simply evaporating, effervescent, like the bubbles from your Jack & Coke.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 13, 2023
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In short, it’s an album so attuned to the dualities of life, that it ultimately says something profound and essential about how we exist and move through this world.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 13, 2023
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Double and triple albums naturally sprawl, yet there’s an unexpected compactness to PARANOÏA.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 12, 2023
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It appeals instantly with its impactful and unforgiving sonic palette, but feels much better when we delve in deeper and engage with the emotion of the words – and for that we must leave rationality at the door.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 9, 2023
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Thematic and lyrical motifs find repetition throughout the album like a musical director slowly pulling the strings together.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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Space Heavy is ultimately King Krule’s most challenging work. It acts like a stream-of-consciousness but with minor guardrails to keep Marshall from spiraling out into truly wicked realms. The moments he does let go, like in the end, never feel completely satisfying.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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But Here We Are is such an honest and raw record that it’s hard to judge but easy to feel and empathise with, especially if a listener has been anywhere near the grieving process.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 6, 2023
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Like its predecessor, Romantic Piano is soft and cosy, a small and dreamy soundworld to escape into for half an hour.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Ultimately, Tracey Denim lives and thrives in the shadows of past greats, but is unable to escape them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 30, 2023
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For six albums now the twosome have been tugging along their listeners, perhaps even trolling them in some degree, and Everyone’s Crushed may be their strongest box of tricks to date.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 26, 2023
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End of Everything is not an obviously uplifting album, but it is in many places breathtaking.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 23, 2023
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Villagers may not hit the feels like All My Friends Are Funeral Singers did, but it’s nonetheless a prime example of an impeccable songwriter still operating at a consistent high.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 22, 2023
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Mandy, Indiana never lose sight of their aesthetic and existential north star, despite how convincingly they navigate despair.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 19, 2023
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ATUM is the most controversial and strangest of all Smashing Pumpkins albums: a record that defies expectations but often disappoints in how prosaic and calculated it is.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 11, 2023
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woods has transcended the line of being a great artist and entered the realm of genius. With Kenny Segal’s help, he has conjured a work that is wholly its own, both in the artist’s discography and in the rap genre.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 8, 2023
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Ákadóttir has made her own museum here, and each of the songs on the album are monochrome statues that we the listener get to walk around and view, but we leave the building indifferent to any real history and experience they represent. It’s like Night at the Museum, but without any of the magic.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 4, 2023
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They’ve built up enough good will at this point that they’re able to maintain a massive fanbase by coasting through comfortable records – and they could probably continue to do that for a few more years at least. But, if Berninger and co really want to rediscover purpose in their lives and work, perhaps it’s time to push themselves somewhere a little riskier.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 2, 2023
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All of This Will End can be regarded as a riveting bildungsroman, the 25-year-old De Souza reflecting on archetypal initiations and processing essential insights, all the while reveling in diverse instrumentation and a seemingly endless supply of hooks.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 2, 2023
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Artistically, well, it skirts as close (and intelligently) to blasphemy as a 21st century project could – and Portrayal of Guilt indulge in this act with glee and artistic sensitivity. That it may remain a ‘minor’ work in their discography seems unjust, but then anything that blossoms from the seeds laid here will likely be even more garish, more haunted, more graceful than this black mass.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 1, 2023
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It may have taken nearly 20 years since its resurrection, but Lawrie’s exploring new dimensions with his band that are far and wide; a subtle yet severe departure from its beginnings.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted May 1, 2023
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The vast majority of Ware’s fifth LP serves as a masterclass in following up a beloved previous album – taking What’s Your Pleasure’s core elements and stretching them into wilder and weirder directions. Now, that feels good.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Forever Means is not just a B-side compilation; these songs sound distinct from each other but somehow come together cohesively.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 17, 2023
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Multitudes is a lovely listen from front to back, and her most sonically and thematically consistent album ever. However, it may be a little too deceptively simple for its own good. The fact that so many of the treasures of this record come in the smaller details and choices is fine, but it does mean the album takes more time to sink in as a result.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 14, 2023
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This is a band operating at their highest, most infectious potency, and the end result is riveting.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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Continue as a Guest hints at what a more purposeful turn could look like for the band.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Apr 6, 2023
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