Andy Beta

Andy Beta’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 9 reviews, going back to 2003, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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What they review

  • Electronic 44%
  • Rock 33%
  • Jazz 11%
  • R&B & Soul 11%

Find Andy Beta

More numbers (how close they land to the other critics, release-week calls) appear once we track 15 of their reviews.

Their favorites

  1. T. RexThe Slider 95 Pitchfork
  2. Miles DavisFilles de Kilimanjaro 92 Pitchfork
  3. Boards of CanadaTomorrow’s Harvest 90 Spin
  4. Grace JonesNightclubbing 90 Pitchfork
  5. ZZ TopTres Hombres 90 Pitchfork

A-Sides they reviewed

1 album that earned an A-Side, the critics’ top tier; they scored 1 of them 75 or higher.

Every review

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Miles DavisFilles de KilimanjaroPitchfork via Wikipedia92 9.2/1090May 31, 2026
Stevie WonderStevie Wonder’s Journey Through “The Secret Life of Plants”Pitchfork via Wikipedia77 7.7/10762019
T. RexThe SliderPitchfork via Wikipedia95 9.5/10892019
AutechreIncunabula“Revisiting electronic pioneers Autechre’s earliest albums, now reissued, is like returning to a previously uninhabitable planet and being startled to find residents living and thriving there.”Pitchfork via Wikipedia82 8.2/10772016
Boards of CanadaTomorrow’s Harvest“9SPIN Rating: 9 of 10Release Date: June 11, 2013Label: WarpRight now, throughout the Atlantic Eastern Seaboard, red-eyed cicada nymphs are emerging from a”Spin via Wikipedia90 9/10832013
Animal CollectiveHere Comes the IndianPitchfork via Wikipedia86 8.6/10722003
Grace JonesNightclubbingPitchfork via Wikipedia90 9.0/1085
ZZ TopTres Hombres“ZZ Top’s 1973 breakthrough was a masterful melding of complementary styles, cramming Southern rock and blues boogie through the band’s own idiosyncratic filter.”Pitchfork via Wikipedia90 9.0/1080
Flying LotusUntil the Quiet ComesSpin via Wikipedia70 7/1080

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