- Artist
- Kate Bush
- Album
- 50 Words for Snow
Early reviews. Based on 5 critics so far. The Breakdown will settle as more outlets weigh in.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Beats Per Minute | 90% | 90 | “Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s” |
| musicOMH | 4.5/5 | 90 | “Usually hell has the chance to freeze over a couple of times between Kate Bush albums; but in 2011 the unthinkable has happened. It appears that” |
| Spectrum Culture | 4.5/5 | 90 | “[xrr rating=4.5/5] Are you feeling festive yet? Are you perhaps already exhausted by the generic holiday schlock dominating radio airwaves in every mall, fast food restaurant and office holiday party…” |
| PopMatters | 8/10 | 80 | “” |
| Slant | 3.5/5 | 70 | “50 Words for Snow is a success not only because it’s so challengingly bold and peculiar.” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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