Prefix Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 2,132 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 70
Highest review score: | Modern Times | |
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Lowest review score: | Eat Me, Drink Me |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,576 out of 2132
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Mixed: 509 out of 2132
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Negative: 47 out of 2132
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In small doses, Animal Lover acts as the perfect antidote to a musical landscape often cluttered by acts too timid to truly challenge their audiences.- Prefix Magazine
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There is little doubt Edan is an innovator on the production tip, but he’s not nearly as talented an emcee.- Prefix Magazine
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Blueprint could have cut-and-pasted his way through 1988, recycling hooks, beats and samples, but he clearly took his time and laid out his vision.- Prefix Magazine
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Lullabies is ultimately a demanding, schizophrenic, lopsided album. At its best, it's an elaboration on what Queens have become known for -- distinct, droning, melodic, heavy guitar rock. At its worst it's futile, go-nowhere studio sludge.- Prefix Magazine
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Ghetto Bells finds Chesnutt running the gauntlet -- string-laden balladry, desert folk-rock, thumb-piano noodling.- Prefix Magazine
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Put simply, this music is slow, the same slow soggy tempo the whole way through.- Prefix Magazine
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In a perfect combination of inspired production, innovative instrumentation and transcendent songwriting, Akron/Family is a richly layered and flowing album that is as emotional as it is challenging.- Prefix Magazine
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There are no bad songs on Employment. There are maybe a couple not-good ones toward the end, but even those are so tightly wound and polished they could end up lodged in your head for days.- Prefix Magazine
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Origin is a saccharin mouthful of bloated riffs, burdensome lyrical clichés, and second-rate studio trickery -- songs that lurch rather than rock. In other words, it’s Oasis at their best or the Doves at their absolute worst.- Prefix Magazine
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Their chemistry undeniable, this debut could serve as a watershed for both members’ future creative outputs.- Prefix Magazine
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Though comparisons to the Postal Service and M83’s newer work are somewhat understandable, the record lacks emotion in a way that makes it better suited for a Volvo commercial or a Starbucks compilation.- Prefix Magazine
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Hurricane Bar sees the group amp up the hand-clapping choruses and delivers a leaner collection that recalls everything from the Animals and the Small Faces to Hanoi Rocks and the Libertines.- Prefix Magazine
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Though it’s soothing at times, A Few Steps More doesn’t really boast any kind of bumps, and it’s difficult to discern one track from the next.- Prefix Magazine
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Once you get past the initial, pleasing familiarity, though, In the Clear becomes a decidedly middling listening experience.- Prefix Magazine
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After nearly a half-decade of records, Johnson still hasn’t learned anything about time signatures or experimentation, but at least he knows what he does best and sticks to it.- Prefix Magazine
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Her effort is continuously admirable, but what is frustrating about The Beekeeper is the music itself: it’s almost formulaic, including even the token song that displays a powerful sense of womanhood.- Prefix Magazine
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It jumps from light pop to disco funk to noise samples without ever sacrificing melody for the sake of overindulgence.- Prefix Magazine
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Much of Awake Is the New Sleep feels labored, lyrically and musically.- Prefix Magazine
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It is uncompromising, brutally honest... and adroit at melding many genres together without losing sight of the fact it is first a hip-hop record.- Prefix Magazine
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Antony has found a voice that expresses what it feels like to be trapped in that gray area between misery and rage.- Prefix Magazine
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Her music-box arrangements have a child-like giddiness about them, but this collection of glittering songs has an emotional and sonic maturity that will keep you listening long past bedtime.- Prefix Magazine
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Imagine Manu Chao, Serge Gainsbourg and the Cars all caramelized together.- Prefix Magazine
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When the World Was Our Friend is for third-tier tone-deaf hipsters.- Prefix Magazine
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If the sound of being eaten alive is something you would like to hear, by all means, shake a leg to Burned Mind.- Prefix Magazine
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