The Telegraph (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 1,234 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: | All Born Screaming | |
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Lowest review score: | Killer Sounds |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 880 out of 1234
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Mixed: 352 out of 1234
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Negative: 2 out of 1234
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The quality wanes a little in the album’s second half, but there are four or five bangers, all told – ample firepower to win fresh converts while supporting both Harry Styles and Arctic Monkeys on the stadium circuit this summer.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Quest for Fire is still visceral EDM designed to get the pulse racing, but the whole thing has been given an ambitious refresh. The second coming of Skrillex starts here.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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There’s nothing wrong with these songs, exactly – innocuous fare that’s catchier than you want it to be – but they’re a far cry from Pink’s attitude-laden early hits: misfit anthems about depression and divorce that elbowed her a place in the mainstream.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Ira Kaplan, percussionist and pianist Georgia Hubley, and bassist James McNew sound as fresh and relevant now as they ever have.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Williams’s song C’est Comme Ça perfectly sums up the album: a reckoning with change, a refusal to deliver the same-old tricks even when it’s the easier option.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Months from her 40th birthday, Ethiopian-American artist Kelela Mizanekristos has blessed us with a sexy, sultry masterclass in RnB.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Forster all too humbly paints himself as a modest talent next to his late foil’s melodic genius, yet this eighth solo outing is packed as ever with minimal, carefully chiselled, acoustic-thrumming arrangements, topped by extraordinary lyric writing.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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The songs are sufficiently sophisticated and winning that The Waeve keeps sweeping the listener along on its intoxicating journey.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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Like FKA Twigs’s Caprisongs, Beyoncé's Renaissance, and SZA’s SOS, Raye’s My 21st Century Blues deserves to be listened to from start to finish, then again, and again.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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An over eagerness to keep up to date has resulted in making Twain sound less mature than her successor. On Queen of Me, Twain comes across as Swift’s over eager auntie, charging onto the dancefloor, determined to prove she still has the moves to cut it with the kids.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 3, 2023
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Sutherland has absolutely earned the right to celebrate his success. It’s just a shame that, with 17 tracks to play with, Great is He doesn’t go a little deeper.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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This album proves Lewis can master the mainstream, too, with earworms to soundtrack parties from Brooklyn to Brixton. So much more than “just a DJ”, one suspects that within a few short years, Lewis will be selling out stadiums.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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The joy here is in basking in the creative process, how Dylan chipped away at differing tempos, alternate arrangements and revised lyrics for each composition, ultimately to arrive at the final 11 tracks.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Smith sings rings around themselves and the material, elevating both the banal and the sublime with smokey curlicues of tremulous falsetto.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Full of safe risks, Gigi’s Recovery is very much a transitional album as The Murder Capital look to evolve without alienating their fanbase. Doors are left wide open for subsequent reinventions but for now, the five-piece are comfortable sticking close-by what they know.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Whilst it is purposefully lacking in intention, the experimental album has its moments of whimsy but feels noticeably devoid of humour, surprising for a musician known for his zaniness. Still a cohesive affair, it’s an apt depiction of transience and Mac DeMarco is taking us all along for the ride.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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This is Måneskin’s big strength. The songs on RUSH! may not be particularly original, reading heavily from a well-thumbed big-riffs-and-god-times playbook, but they write a very good one, and play them with an energy that frequently boils over with exuberance.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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A brew of sinister synth waves nearly stagnates where we want it to cascade, and harmonies twine around one another where we want them to soar into anthems. In short, a potential blaze delivers a fizzle.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Mercy is not an easy listen, but it is nevertheless inspiring to hear an octogenarian artist declining the comforts of nostalgia, still forging his own wayward path, opening byways for others to explore at their leisure.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 20, 2023
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It’s a rarity to have an album in which every song could genuinely be a single, but they’ve managed it here.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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This is a softer, more introspective approach than her barn-storming debut, but this 12-track album doesn’t lack the punch and bite of its debut in spite of this.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Coombes, a quite masterful musical auteur after three decades in the game, skillfully navigates the record away from one long mid-life nightmare. ... it’s another hugely satisfying listen.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Price’s fantastic fourth album, Strays, advances boldly into terrain occupied by such exalted US rock craftsmen as Jackson Browne and Tom Petty, with soulful vocal swagger, a widescreen band sound and a poetic lyrical depth that should leave most of her Nashville peers prostrate at her feet.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Upon the first few listens, it’s a confusing album: there’s plenty of their usual sing-song melodies and musings on modern dissatisfaction, such as on When We Were Very Young. ... But it’s the synth-laden, poptastic I Don’t Know What You See In Me that seems glaringly out of place.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 13, 2023
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There is nothing particularly original or surprising here, yet in a pop market that is all interesting edges, self-enclosed scenes and leftfield genres, Ryder offers a hearty return to the reassuringly obvious, pitched straight into the mainstream. A star is born.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 10, 2023
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Every Loser is a great, energising opening blast for 2023, a loud and lairy rock album jam-packed with the lust for life that has characterised Iggy’s whole wayward career.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Jan 6, 2023
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Protest albums don’t come more subtle and moving than this.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Dec 19, 2022
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The brilliance of No Thank You is how Simz uses her brazenly unapologetic narrative to spin out larger points about institutional and generational racism, the danger of business practices indifferent to their human impact, and links all of that to contemporary mental health crises.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Dec 15, 2022
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[Wizkid's] finest body of work so far, showcasing a maturity and an artistic vision that cements his status as one of the most influential people in pop music today.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Most of the songs here do somewhat merge into one, long, party soundtrack that is enjoyable to listen to and yet entirely forgettable.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Dec 13, 2022
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