The Telegraph (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 1,238 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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33% 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: | Hit Me Hard and Soft | |
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Lowest review score: | Killer Sounds |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 882 out of 1238
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Mixed: 354 out of 1238
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Negative: 2 out of 1238
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This is a vast superclub of an album. But for all its inventiveness, its flavours exist within fairly narrow parameters. Still, these songs will be blasted out of cars, at house parties, in hotel rooms and on dance floors for years to come.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 28, 2022
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It’s a cracking album, whose influences are delightfully esoteric.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 22, 2022
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Riderless Horse is far from an easy listen for obvious reasons. But hearing the 56-year-old Nastasia describe and attempt to understand these stark events is never less than compelling.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 22, 2022
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Entering Heaven Alive may not be his most ground-breaking album and won’t entirely satisfy those who come for the great White guitar wail. But this master musician really sounds like he’s enjoying himself with results that are pretty heavenly.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 22, 2022
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Mabel also retains the tender, thoughtful quality that infused her debut album High Expectations (2019), and this makes for an impressively nuanced flow.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Her charismatic force keeps things afloat. Music destined for a group workout class or M&S Christmas advert, maybe, but executed to a high standard and providing precious confidence and joy to a lot of people – and really, who can argue with that.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 15, 2022
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An album for the ages, as well as being an awards season shoo-in, it is sure to succeed in doing precisely what Burna told Billboard his music is all about – “bringing people who don’t even speak the same language together to dance.”- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 8, 2022
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Formentera is a gratifying record stuffed with perfectly crafted songs by a band completely at ease in their own skin.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 8, 2022
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There is nothing disappointing about the way he conjures art from emotional defeat. Toast deserves to be acclaimed amongst his finest works. Twenty-one years since the album was made, Young has reminded us once again why he stands tall amongst the greats of the rock era.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 8, 2022
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Nutini has a voice that could transform any song, riding melodies with lazy restraint until suddenly unleashing notes that would have any throat specialist reaching for their speculum in alarm. On Last Night in the Bittersweet, he sounds like he’s having the time of his life.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 1, 2022
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These are powerful nuggets. Whether he’s addressing God directly or meditating on the nature of religion in more abstract terms (you never quite know), Cave’s words are potent and evocative.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jul 1, 2022
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The references are frank, from the satirical title (he made the album while receiving Universal Credit during the pandemic, and the cover depicts him receiving a giant cheque for £324.84, the current monthly allowance, from besuited men in celebratory style) to the succinct writing within.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 30, 2022
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Sometimes, Forever, though on the whole a rockier, more grown up record, still has its moments of teenage innocence: Shotgun and Feel It All The Time seem like continuations of the biggest singles from color theory, royal screw up and circle the drain, that became sad anthems for disenchanted youth.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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The album is both consistently breezy and emotionally upfront, going to-and-fro between galvanising dance anthems and gentle, psychedelic country ballads à la Kacey Musgrave’s Golden Hour.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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With Home, Before and After, Spektor surely proves she is a songwriter for the ages.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Their pairing might well be bananas, but it works. Buckley is certainly no luvvie on leave. This is, at times, a dazzling album.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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In lesser hands, an album that at times sounds like R2D2 breakdancing in an industrial spin-dryer might make for trying company. Yet, for all their Day-Glo stridency, Nova Twins not only know how to write songs, but how to arrange them too.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Ugly Season may seem just that to those who prefer Hadreas’s smoother side. Yet the most compelling elements of his work remain, and the album is a culmination of one of the most consistent and emotionally generous artists today. Without the focus of the dance performance, the onus is on the listener to concentrate – but the rewards are as rich as ever.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Without a feeling that it’s intentionally waiting for the rain in order to go out dancing in it, it draws on its authors’ memories of the good times – reflecting, according to Philippakis, right back to their earliest days – and projects them huge and bright.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 24, 2022
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At the heart of Ezra’s mainstream pop appeal is a sense of joy that infuses his music with radiant positivity. In such troubled times, Ezra’s escapism is pure gold.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Whatever Big Time’s genre, it is a mature and accomplished album; a requiem yet also a quiet celebration. It’s probably the most honest album you’ll hear all year.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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Despite what the polished sonics might suggest, Twelve Carat Toothache is an ambitious record with real range, proving that Post has found his groove as America’s kaleidoscopic king of new-era pop.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jun 3, 2022
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The songs are anthemic, surprisingly upbeat calls to arms which suggest that Templeman is one to watch.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 27, 2022
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Just Mustard have said they wanted their second album, Heart Under, to make the listener feel like they are driving through a tunnel with the windows down. And on this noisy, wonderfully chaotic record, the band seems to have nailed it. ... The inventive beats make you want to dance.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 27, 2022
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Everything may remind you of something you’ve heard before, but Gallagher remains a singer who can deliver utopian exhortations and sneering put-downs with equal conviction, even in the same song.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 27, 2022
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It sounds gimmicky, but far from it: Raw Data Feel is a thought-provoking experiment that aims to reshape the dissociation and damage caused by endless scrolling into fodder for the dance floor.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Eyeye may be more of the same from Li, but as a distillation of her music to date, and a final confrontation with heartbreak, it’s flawless.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Pacier than her self-titled 2018 debut, the new album is still too long. But lengthiness suits R&B’s slow-burn tendencies: lingering over syllables and songs, letting new albums simmer.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 16, 2022
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This is music with a big, gleeful smile on its face. And it is accompanied by clever and compassionate lyrics.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 16, 2022
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It’s not all perfect: every so often, the tracks swing from sounding like impossibly cool, experimental rock to, er, Coldplay. Overall, however, this is guitar music at its most thrilling.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted May 13, 2022
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