The Skinny's Scores
- Music
For 1,342 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Exactly as It Seems | |
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Lowest review score: | Heartworms |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 886 out of 1342
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Mixed: 451 out of 1342
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Negative: 5 out of 1342
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I Don’t Live Here Anymore, is their greatest and grandest statement yet. Adam Granduciel’s obsessive nature when it comes to making records has paid off as the Grammy winners' fifth studio album is another triumph in sound.- The Skinny
- Posted Oct 25, 2021
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The duo’s knack for high five-worthy boasts and massive one-liners remains undiluted. However, RTJ3 truly excels in some of its darkest moments.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 4, 2017
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Plowing Into the Field of Love was a champagne swilling, country honky-tonk left turn; and now comes Beyondless, a record altogether more iconic sounding, but no less strange. ... Iceage continue to be one of the most exciting bands in music.- The Skinny
- Posted May 1, 2018
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She can’t do any wrong at the minute; this is timeless songwriting, and Tigers Blood is a worthy successor to Saint Cloud.- The Skinny
- Posted Mar 18, 2024
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You're hearing a songwriter who seems to know exactly what she wants to make, and has all the tools to do that. A glorious, glorious album.- The Skinny
- Posted May 25, 2018
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Singularity it feels like he’s levelled up the melding of two worlds: ambient and techno. Hopkins’ signature deep tissue massage bass is stitched together throughout, with unreal moments of musical beauty making Singularity a simply stunning album of emotional highs and lows.- The Skinny
- Posted May 1, 2018
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It’s sentimental, it’s oddball and it’s beautiful. In other words, it’s Grandaddy at their finest.- The Skinny
- Posted Feb 27, 2017
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While this album could be characterised as a return to 'normality' for Dirty Projectors, such a label has no bearing on a group this relentlessly imaginative; a creative rebirth would be more accurate.- The Skinny
- Posted Jul 9, 2018
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This is the band's darkest material yet. Opener, The Supremacy of Pure Artistic Feeling is an instant statement of the band's simultaneous deviousness and gorgeousness, which is a feeling that never really lets up over its 40 minutes until the seemingly krautrock-influenced The Right Kind of Adult. Come join the family.- The Skinny
- Posted Jul 5, 2018
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Memories Are Now is a gorgeously delivered elegy to heartbreak and loss; powerful, perfectly executed songs to bring comfort and strength to the weary, broken and scorned.- The Skinny
- Posted Feb 8, 2017
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Wall of Eyes is a kaleidoscopic, mind-altering pronouncement: The Smile are not a band of their component parts, not echoes of their previous ventures. They are something exciting, ambitious, and genuinely brilliant; a sentiment delivered so resoundingly by their work here that it will leave your ears ringing.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 22, 2024
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Love What Survives offers a scattergun approach to ideas, sounds and voices, and it could be their greatest record yet. With a looser grip, Mount Kimbie dip and dive through myriad musical worlds.- The Skinny
- Posted Sep 5, 2017
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The musicality of It’s Real is deliciously idiosyncratic, yet refreshing and musically progressive.- The Skinny
- Posted Mar 25, 2019
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Beautiful Thing, though, is more of a straightforward float through space, with a starry, galactic feel to the album.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 16, 2018
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More candid but just as magical, City Music is another magnificent record from Morby.- The Skinny
- Posted Jun 12, 2017
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An album that functions seamlessly as a listen-in-one-sitting affair, with enough memorable stand-alone moments to keep the club contingent happy, Bicep's debut is a clear front-runner for best house record of the year.- The Skinny
- Posted Aug 30, 2017
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A beautiful record; you just wish the vocabulary existed to do it justice.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 1, 2016
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Bazan’s wit and compassion shine throughout a dark voyage such as this; as one witness to a brutal suicide turns to black humour, while another, in contrast, valiantly tries to retain their emotional openness in a job that often requires distance.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 15, 2019
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Atomic picks up where the krauty electronic wash that coloured Rave Tapes left off, and sees the band brandishing some of their most compelling work to date.- The Skinny
- Posted Mar 25, 2016
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The queen of Dollywood has more than earned her place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with this stupidly fun and over-the-top love letter to the genre.- The Skinny
- Posted Nov 17, 2023
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While it's a million miles from the techno of Holden’s earlier career, its rhythms and hooks are infectious. The Animal Spirits is, put frankly, one of the most complex, immersive and impressive albums of the year.- The Skinny
- Posted Oct 30, 2017
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Not only are Ty Segall fans likely to be pressing this on people for the next few months, it also might be just about the best album he’s put his own name to.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 20, 2017
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It all speaks of erudition, repetition used and abused in a dizzy concatenation. 25 25 is music as heartbeat (and screw the arrhythmia). Essential.- The Skinny
- Posted Aug 4, 2016
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- Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Vagabon is a record both stripped back yet electronically rich, genre disparate, but ultimately inclusive. A rewarding listen, it's an achievement beyond comprehension.- The Skinny
- Posted Oct 15, 2019
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For his fifth album using the How to Dress Well moniker as an intravenous exploration of the hold that music has over our fragile human hearts, Krell has perfected his process.- The Skinny
- Posted Oct 18, 2018
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I Am Easy to Find is littered with these ambitious flourishes, all of which add up to make a much broader and more pointed statement of offbeat intent.- The Skinny
- Posted May 16, 2019
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This is still the band we fell in love with over a decade ago: confessional, honest, enthralling. It's just that this time out they're sleeker and sharper than before.- The Skinny
- Posted Jan 11, 2019
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Meek’s vocals have always been quality, but on this release he has truly reached another level. The soft breathiness is used to the greatest emotive evocation yet, and the controlled manner in which his voice breaks cleanly into the following note in a way inimitable to few others than teenagers (certainly with less class than Meek) is impressive to the point of awe.- The Skinny
- Posted Aug 22, 2023
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This music is experimental and diverse in its sonic scope, but each unique sound is in service of its greater whole, making for a record that is undeniably the vision of a singular artist, a true auteur.- The Skinny
- Posted Apr 12, 2018
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