The Telegraph (UK)'s Scores
- Music
For 1,125 reviews, this publication has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 77
Highest review score: | UK Grim | |
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Lowest review score: | Killer Sounds |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 800 out of 1125
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Mixed: 323 out of 1125
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Negative: 2 out of 1125
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Sleaford Mods have lost none of their political bite, humour, and astute observational skill. UK Grim will cement their place as one of Britain’s most influential – and successful – UK bands.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Indeed, for all the slick but formulaic pleasures of the album’s mainstream pop push, it is arguably that Cyrus is at her most compelling when she dances like no one is watching.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 10, 2023
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All 12 tracks are undeniably well-made and catchy songs, but it veers into all-too predictable territory in places.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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From the opening chimes and birdsong to her sultry vocals, the album cocoons you entirely in its plush, sensuous world.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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Ugly makes for difficult listening in places, but that’s not to say it isn’t often brilliant. Experimental, disarmingly honest and conceptually tight, blending rap, alt-rock and electronica, there’s no denying that Frampton is putting in the work.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Mar 3, 2023
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Brimming with both spiritual depth and astonishing musical dexterity, Shook feels contemporary and important, reflecting America’s present-day diversity and letting the disenfranchised speak.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Food for Worms is all the more exciting for its contrasts in brutality and beauty. It’s challenging, consummately constructed, and thrilling throughout.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Thirty years on, Albarn sounds just as dissatisfied with the state of the modern world, yet he still appears to have at least a cartoon finger on its pulse.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Come for the drama, but stay and swoon for Lambert’s intoxicating, heartfelt closer: Dinah Washington’s Mad About the Boy.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 24, 2023
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She has drawn comparison with Kate Bush and Bjork, not because she sounds like them, but because she has a similar blend of extraordinary vocal ability, florid imagination, and genre-bending boldness. Desire is the album where it all comes together for this late blooming art-pop siren.- The Telegraph (UK)
- Posted Feb 17, 2023
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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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