Beats Per Minute's Scores
- Music
For 1,712 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.
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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: 1,563 out of 1712
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Mixed: 131 out of 1712
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Negative: 18 out of 1712
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Hard to categorise, and impossible to assess immediately, like all of Slowdive, everything is alive will ever blossom with time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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The dire gloom of the early years is gone, and the garbled mutations of Some Rap Songs and Feet of Clay have grown in clarity without losing any of their labyrinthine and gothic dynamics. Without calling a masterpiece just yet: this is a very special moment, both for Thebe and his fans. I leave the rest to Two-Face and the flip of his coin.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 31, 2023
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It’s outside the lines at times and consists of hues and shades you might not expect, but this is what makes Fragile Plane a fascinating listening experience.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 30, 2023
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Her vision of R&B is unfiltered and uncompromising. At her most modern, she is advancing her genre rather than watering it down for current tastes. Things her songwriting could only hint at in the work of others are here in full, and they make for a beautiful end product.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Everyone Else is a Stranger might hook in a few new fans, but they will find better work with further exploration into Lindstrøm’s discography. For everyone else, all you need to know is that it’s just Lindstrøm doing what he does best, which is no bad thing from space disco royalty.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 24, 2023
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A solidly realized full-length record, Radio Red is a welcome addition to an already outstanding catalog.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 23, 2023
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While Smiling spreaded itself thin at times, Owusu sounds more settled on Struggler and contorts his voice less.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 17, 2023
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There is plenty of fun and escapism of the sort that gave Jepsen her well-earned reputation in the popsphere, but in terms of her progression as an artist, its most striking tracks prove to be the ones that are more self-focused.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 16, 2023
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It’s Noname’s most convincing album yet – as a whole, it defies any attempt to be embraced as “mainstream” or “digestible”.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 15, 2023
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- Posted Aug 8, 2023
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This is very, very good – better than the rest. Analysis seems to make no sense when the art is so enormously enjoyable.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 2, 2023
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It’s at a crossroads between being many things: a moving resurrection; an impressive display of a talent we didn’t think we’d hear again; a slightly shambolic jam sesh; and more. Its coconspirator too often wears her sincere giddy passion for Mitchell on her sleeve (she may as well say “it came true” at some point), but it’s surely at least in good faith.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 1, 2023
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It’s a shame nothing about it screams new pop culture staple the way the movie does. There are fine moments, but the highs don’t rise enough to offset the lows.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 31, 2023
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They have managed to recapture the magic that permeated their best material and made it so imminently replayable. This is a bold move that should be celebrated, and more importantly, it should be emulated.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 28, 2023
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Yes, The Ballad of Darren is Dad Rock. Fairly enjoyable Dad Rock, true, and still a record hundreds of bands can only dream of making, but one that would likely fall by the wayside if anyone else had made it. Is this bad? Not really, and if anything, it proves that Blur can transition gracefully into old age.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 24, 2023
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While Clarke remains tethered to his sources, he still manages to flap his way toward the sun. In this version of the myth, his wings hold up, his father congratulates him, and the gods give him a brief yet sincere ovation.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 21, 2023
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My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, in turn, shows Anohni pivoting between stunningly direct and entrancingly oblique manifestos. A listener is left voyeuristically spellbound, striving to reconcile what they’ve encountered with the life they’re currently living.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 13, 2023
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The resulting album is at once a hodgepodge of ideas and a collection that is bound together by vintage synth tones NV and Deradoorian’s desire to explore the possibilities of their collaboration. It’s an entirely unpredictable but indefinably enlivening listening experience.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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Overall, I Don’t Know is a formidable leap forward for bdrmm and needs to be seen as one body of work that veers this way and that, but always with a purposeful forward motion.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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But The Greater Wings, for all its inevitable connotations, is not a downer. It’s a beautiful testament to life and to the people we love and that keep us going, physically and spiritually. It’s also a testament to moving forward with grace and strength, and rediscovering that longing to live.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 6, 2023
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Musically, the deft fusion of the delicate and the hearty reflects Harvey’s thematic explorations; the production is full of strange quirks, whether found sounds or unusual effects that are sometimes inserted and not repeated. The effect is that the music feels both hazy and alive, evoking the Orlam world in its strange splendour.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 5, 2023
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Once again, Sternberg’s irrepressible, impossibly human spirit shines through the darkness. This is the ultimate power of I’ve Got Me: the majority of songs here focus on negative experiences, but the feeling coming out the other end of listening to it is one of uplift and renewed resolve to make something of one’s life. It’s what makes the album sound both modern and timeless.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 3, 2023
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Taken as a political, activistic, and aesthetic hybridization, Reed and Nehill’s work is fiercely confrontive, a treatise on humankind’s penchant for cruelty, its evolutionary missteps, but also its opportunities for redemption.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 30, 2023
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It’s noteworthy that this latest record is on par with those two [Soundtracks for the Blind and The Seer] in quality, because it marks his largest leap forward in a long time. By imagining a future without himself, Michel Gira has opened up an eternity of possibilities. He’s let the light shine in – and that is deeply moving. He’s found peace.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 29, 2023
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With Feed The Beast she has neither progressed past that nor become a lost cause.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 26, 2023
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the whaler will make you furious; it will make you feel and assuredly interrogate your own heart. That’s emo music, and it is most definitely Home Is Where.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 23, 2023
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3D Country is a fun album, and it gives the band a more definable personality – even if it’s bonkers.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Boris’ expansive approach acts as a foil to Uniform’s tense restrictions, and it really shouldn’t work as well as it does. And yet it does.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jun 22, 2023
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- Posted Jun 21, 2023
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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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