The Boston Phoenix's Scores
- Music
For 1,091 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Pink | |
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Lowest review score: | Last of a Dyin' Breed |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 956 out of 1091
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Mixed: 88 out of 1091
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Negative: 47 out of 1091
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On Angles, the band tossed a few tunes out that sounded like carbon-copies of their first album, but on Machine they eschew that kind of market compromise in favor of following their strange muse, even if in the end most listeners will have trouble pegging down who it sounds like.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Mar 18, 2013
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- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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These on-record musings never reveal the off-record Marnie, which is a shame, but the sprawling, chimerical Marnia brings you close enough to be captivating anyhow.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Welcome Oblivion tracks like techno-folk haunter "Ice Age" and the doom-pop jaunt "How Long?" make uncredited cameo appearances in your nightmares until you go insane and eat your own hands.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Hit the Waves is so heartfelt as a pastiche of '80s alternative music that it almost muscles its way into being brilliant.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Four records deep, Pissed Jeans may have trimmed some heaviness, but they open space for discovery.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Mar 6, 2013
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- Posted Mar 6, 2013
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It's easy to imagine her getting very famous, because Torres doesn't wash the songs out with its prettiness.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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AMOK is as heady and immersive as any great Radiohead album, but those comparisons eventually wilt: Yorke's new band has discovered a symmetry all its own.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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While lukewarm as a whole, The Messenger doesn't suck nearly enough to bruise Marr's status as a guitar deity on wheels.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 25, 2013
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It ain't exactly Bill Shakespeare (or Trojans), but it gets the job done.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 25, 2013
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The beauty of Beach Fossils has always been in the tension between Payseur's disaffected deadpan and the band's super-visceral live shows (before Beach Fossils, he spent years playing in hardcore bands) and on Clash much of that post-punk energy translates seamlessly.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 20, 2013
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Push the Sky Away feels heavy on breath-taking and woodshedding, an album of waiting for sparks to ignite.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 20, 2013
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The lyrics resonate hard, though, felt most strongly when Rønnenfelt sings with broad expressive shouts.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 12, 2013
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Calculated yet impulsive, Young Fathers prove Scottish hip-hop's viability.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 12, 2013
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The Scottish outfit have delivered again with jangly pop full of skittering guitars, self-flagellating lyricism, and whimsy under a pall of darkness that no amount of the big spotlight can dispel.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 12, 2013
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- Posted Feb 12, 2013
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Somebody needs to boot Nielson off his why-fi connection: beneath the murk is the work of a riveting craftsman.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Feb 1, 2013
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Bleeding Rainbow provide tunes to which one could satisfactorily gaze at his or her shoes during any point of the year.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 29, 2013
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The History of Apple Pie aren't exactly breaking new ground in the world of indie rock, but they are the sort of band who win you over in seconds.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 29, 2013
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It's not as challenging as previous Ducktails recordings, but a pleasant pop record nonetheless, and the band's most universally accessible yet.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 23, 2013
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Beta Love is the best of both worlds: surprisingly slick and danceable, while subtly amplifying their art-school charm.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 23, 2013
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- Posted Jan 17, 2013
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Tortoise's John McEntire steps in for long-time producer Roger Moutenot, but any of these songs would fit perfectly on the band's last half-dozen albums.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 17, 2013
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If there's a knock to be had against the Harlem rapper, it's that he lacks an original presence. So it's curious that for his major-label debut he's opted to further venture down the rabbit hole of references, loading Long.Live.A$AP with a bevy of guests with personalities far more distinctive than his own.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 16, 2013
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- Posted Jan 11, 2013
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Lysandre inevitably feels a bit skimpy. It's still an unnervingly tuneful warm-up: freed from his hipster shackles, Owens is harnessing the power of the incredibly uncool--and he's all the cooler for it.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Jan 8, 2013
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- Posted Dec 14, 2012
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Fascinating speed-bumps aside, it's a mission still very much accomplished.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Dec 10, 2012
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And so it goes with Mogwai's A Wrenched Virile Lore: a broad range of electro producers, ambient knob-twiddlers, and singer-songwriters re-assemble the Scottish post-rock champs' most recent studio album, the excellent Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, mostly with shitty bonus-feature-styled results.- The Boston Phoenix
- Posted Dec 4, 2012
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