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.
(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? |
Score distribution:
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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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This album is not served to us on a platter as a radio-ready hit record, and it is not made ‘for us’, but it gives us something better — the feeling of being a part of this music and not a mere recipient.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Overall, Asphalt Meadows is a fine record from a band so deep into their career they really have nothing left to prove — except, it seems, to themselves.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Although sonically the production can feel repetitive – especially towards the album’s middle – what ultimately anchors this project is the lyricism. He manages to explore his experience as a gay man and all its accompanying troubles and triumphs, yet also frame them in the universal understandings of heartbreak and alienation.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 15, 2022
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As it stands, it’s a solid and often a fun listen, with some real highlights and crystalline production, but for such a lofty eponymous allusion, the album winds up shortchanging itself a bit, rarely languishing long enough in its own ideas to land the dizzying punch Santigold has revealed herself to be capable of time and again.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 14, 2022
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Arrangements shows the band as a whole accessing a new sense of purpose and creative liberation, planting another flag in the crowded postpunk landscape.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 13, 2022
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They round out the subtle complexities in the seemingly simple story of longing; a tip-toeing toybox melody reflecting the delicacy of the situation, digital glitches suggesting the distance between them, sighs that relay the inner conflict. This precision features throughout Jennifer B, and it’s thanks to these careful touches that each song connects on a deeper level, despite their structurelessness and unpredictability.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 12, 2022
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Parks has made her most undeniable statement yet, an album full of uplifting and mesmerizing neo-classics that will fit right in the hearts and minds of the thousands it will touch.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 9, 2022
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What remains is a record that feels all too groomed, all polished execution and often not well thought out. Music to nod and tap your foot along to, then turn it off and move on.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Sep 7, 2022
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For the first time in awhile, however, the energies he has expended have converged into a proper piece of art.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 30, 2022
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Though her debut album told us there’s virtue to having some miles on the soul, PRE PLEASURE kind of does the inverse: a more seasoned, matured artist letting the kid in herself win and giving herself permission to swing away at life.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 29, 2022
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Songs Without Jokes is a perfectly satisfactory addition to McKenzie’s musical career. He’s garnered enough clout behind his credentials to be able to release an album like this: inoffensive, perfectly likable in passing, but a few steps from his best work.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 26, 2022
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It feels akin to waking up, still groggy, and taking in the world before you. It’s surely a different world, now, with them gone. They’ve left us with all they had to offer.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 25, 2022
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With Care, CLAMM continue to reconfigure their sources and refine their methods, offering their take on the current age, fractured as it is by pandemics, climate change, acute financial instabilities, and the rise of the autocratic impulse. They bemoan the human tragedy, but in so doing, experience a fleeting high.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 23, 2022
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More than anything, the album allows the trio to not only appeal to the variety within their followers, it also shows they’ve still got plenty of ground ahead of them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 23, 2022
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As the music fades in and out on the eight-minute closing title track, one can only imagine that boat in the water, the burning hot summer sun melting you down, and those slow but powerful waves washing you away. This is what it feels like to listen to Cass McCombs, especially nowadays.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 18, 2022
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The first Mall Grab album is decidedly too busy and scattered to be much of anything but a letdown for most fans.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 16, 2022
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While A Foul Form honors the history of hardcore, it also occurs as smartly topical, the band’s turbid rage and anti-aesthetic stance conjuring a post-capitalistic malaise and the decay of global culture. And though this set marks a pivot from previous work, spotlighting the band as they navigate a fresh battery of sonics, it’s unmistakably them.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 16, 2022
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Panda Bear has enough talent to make one of his less-than-monumental works worth a listen. And although Sonic Boom sometimes overstuffs the record with unnecessary sounds, his chemistry with Panda Bear is natural. Perhaps next time they’ll leave the toy in the box, though.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 15, 2022
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Cheat Codes captures the glory of rap’s classic era and brings it to the present through thick mesmerizing samples and the rapper’s incredible vernacular.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Detractors have long said that Harris’ music is tailor made for background summer playlists you can ignore – listening to this project, it’s hard to disagree.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 11, 2022
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Florist’s latest project stands as the culmination of previous collaborative and solo work, featuring the band as a whole at their most minimally precise; and Sprague, in terms of songwriting, vocal performances, and composition, at her most versatile and visionary.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 5, 2022
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Sun’s Signature is a wonderful record whose core themes of hope, splendour and faith in nature are something we could all do with right about now.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 3, 2022
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God’s Country is a truly wonderful, twisted record. About halfway through you start thinking it’s maybe the best debut album of the year, and by the end of the first play you start thinking it’s possibly the album of the year. It’s intimate, expansive, political and deeply personal, unsettling, upsetting and life affirming.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 2, 2022
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A noisy, (erratically) bouncy, drone-y, vaguely Strawberry Jam-y set of tracks, which handily establish Vladislav Delay as operating at the top of his game, and still sounding, really, like very little else out there.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 1, 2022
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It’s an album expressing the joys of love – physical, verbal, musical, familial and all the other kinds. While she’s the one in the spotlight throughout the album, this isn’t a record about her – instead she’s honouring all those people who find themselves through the release provided by these communal spaces. And damn, it’s a hell of a good time.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Aug 1, 2022
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Barbarism is much further from the sound of a Priests record than expected, and it’s further proof that the Greer isn’t interested in repeating the past over and over again.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 28, 2022
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Every song sounds like a bunch of musicians taking things in stride, enjoying the process of creating over all else. Obviously by loosening the reins a bit, the pitfalls of sometimes recycling melodic and lyrical ideas aren’t completely dodged, and by effect, some tracks end up stranded in limbo around the two-and-a-half minute mark.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 28, 2022
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The album may be a little homogenous for some listeners, but this is a narratively and emotionally precise set of songs, set to sneakily indelible melodies. Nastasia has never written with such vivid truthfulness, such earthen brutality.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 22, 2022
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It plays to their strengths in most places and often challenges them to retain the will to be original and innovative in their established modus.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 19, 2022
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Beatopia lacks the edge and drive of its predecessor, yet several inspired moments are enough to maintain Kristi’s reputation as one of the nation’s most exciting young artists.- Beats Per Minute
- Posted Jul 18, 2022
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