The Line of Best Fit's Scores
- Music
For 4,086 reviews, this publication has graded:
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66% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: | Am I British Yet? | |
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Lowest review score: | Supermodel |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,681 out of 4086
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Mixed: 389 out of 4086
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Negative: 16 out of 4086
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A clear and consistent exercise in true class from a band who clearly haven’t lost a step, they just took a few stray ones.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Bird Machine is a resonant final word from an enormously talented singer-songwriter. While Linkous clearly struggled with depression, his music often feels as if it’s soaked in light and infused with love, even as it evokes melancholy and apprehension.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Hynde sounds like she’s never left her glory days, and to assume anything less would be a disservice. Her voice is rich with age, thick with wisdom, perfect for listlessly reminiscing about smoky hotel rooms and other rockstar cliches of “her prime”.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Heaven is a brief, yet indulgent series of funk jams and sultry, lo-fi ballads, fit to make leaves age into Autumn based on atmosphere alone.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 29, 2023
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Sorry I'm Late is certainly a belated arrival but it shows signs of positive momentum for Mae Muller and will have an emotional impact upon listeners whose path intertwines with hers – it’s just a shame that any sense of sonic bravery wasn’t given the opportunity to carry that influence further.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Alternately dreamily anxious and immaculately groovy it marks the stunning apex of an intensely satisfying record. Just don’t forget that what comes next will be different again.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 27, 2023
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From start to finish, CTRL os nothing less than outstanding - the late arrival of a very important artist.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 26, 2023
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Most albums would capsize under weight of a colossus like “Defeat”, a seamless combination of disembodied, sweet yet wounded underwater harmonies, drone-fueled introspection and outbreaks of mellow yet exuberant rhythmic mantras (which echo the Grateful Dead at their most joyously lively) that doesn’t waste a second despite its marathon 22-minute duration. However, the rest of Isn’t It Now? lives up to the outsized expectations created by its centrepiece.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 26, 2023
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It combines all of Doja’s past lives with some more heavy-hitting punchlines. It feels like a stark departure from her previous commercial efforts, while still showcasing some clear hits like “Paint The Town Red”, “Gun”, “Go Off”- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 22, 2023
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- Posted Sep 21, 2023
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On The King, Anjimile crafts a masterstroke folk album that binds differences through time for unparalleled emotional clarity.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 18, 2023
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There are some exciting ideas here, but the sophisticated and mature singles like “Spinnin” and “Home To Another One” act as red herrings for an album bogged down by an odd reframing of the past.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 15, 2023
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The sounds present could all be attributed to any other artist and would sit fine but given they wrote a purported 200 songs for this new era, there should at least be some sonic substance to this outing. Thankfully, this new electronic palette they’re toting isn’t wholly lost. They carry it at times with at least some semblance of aplomb.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 15, 2023
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It contains both her gentlest, most fantastical production and her saddest, most miserable lyrics. The commendable combination, as well as the new musical directions, reestablishes her artistic identity the same way Bury Me at Makeout Creek and Be the Cowboy did.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 13, 2023
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In the end, what we have is a magnificent record, that looks likely to be sunk by the events surrounding it. Whether that happens remains to be seen, but what remains is a harsh disconnect, between the absolute joy of the record, and the crushing disappointment that surrounds it.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 8, 2023
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It’s big, brash, and crystal clear, but open-hearted and often evocative, too. At its best, the blown-up production and direct performances produce real stardust.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 8, 2023
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Only Underworld have truly kept up with the consistency of The Chemical Brothers, and with the scintillating form shown on For That Beautiful Feeling, it’s going to take something really spectacular to catch up.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 8, 2023
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The result is a raw, confessional album more interested in telling Rodrigo’s story than conforming to the standards of popular music.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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Bewitched is a marked step up in every way. And, because of it, she’s more than the promising young star she was in her early career – she has shown herself to be an established talent.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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With skills and interests cemented across various styles, he’s figuring out in real time exactly what he does best – providing floor fillers to club crowds or elevating his performances through complex production. Perhaps when he sings, “Where are my wings? / they’re loading”, the artist is acknowledging that he’s still to assume his most resolute form yet.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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Trip9Love…??? feels just as symbiotic in that way as previous cuts 2018's Devotion and 2021's Colourgrade did, but this time, they’re so emotionally vivid that it’s disquieting to feel like a fly on the wall. Once again, they leave the listener submerged.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 7, 2023
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Blømi leaves solutions for our current problems back in the times where they could have been useful. This can only be music as morphine: a painkiller mixed with transcendental meditation.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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It is interesting that Barnett’s chosen soundtrack to the movie about her life is much more subdued than the rest of her discography. Where she has previously depended on frank and revealing lyrical turns to convey emotion, she here demonstrates that she can do the same with only her instrument.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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Overall, although there is quite a bit of filler on Rabbit Rabbit, the album does contain some enjoyable songs, with Dupuis and Molholt demonstrating their obvious talents for solid guitar riffs at several points.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 5, 2023
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When you finally reach the level of brilliance you’ve been working toward for so long, The Window is exactly what it sounds like.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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It’s a short and snappy experience clocking in at under 30 minutes, but the rising tides of sin and crashing waves of liability make Back To The Water Below the most all-encompassing outing of Royal Blood’s career.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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Essentially, HELLMODE all but confirms the sincerity electrifying the voice of our charming punk hero. With little hope to hold onto, he's still angry, urgent, and prescient as ever.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Sep 1, 2023
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Like the tracks themselves, the album as a whole contains a breadth in the way of sounds and styles, but less so in depth. Confused and trying on more hats than a grandfather at a beachfront souvenir shop, Cautious Clay flickers with interest and leaves without a second thought.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Aug 31, 2023
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When Neil leads us away cheekily with the macabre “I’ll never grow old in a graveyard”, the confidence sounds resolute. The trio’s abilities were already in cement, but being uninhibited by past musical ventures has become a marvellously fun, snarling beast.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Aug 31, 2023
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These songs are indubitably vigorous and youthful. Moreover, there’s also a fleck of Slowdive's nostalgia and urgency spattered on them, like the golden sky at sunset, whose warm-coloured canvas quickly loses its treasured vibrance to nightly darkness.- The Line of Best Fit
- Posted Aug 31, 2023
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