Arnold Pan

Arnold Pan’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 10 reviews, going back to 2010, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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What they review

  • Indie & Alternative 60%
  • Rock 20%
  • Electronic 10%
  • Pop 10%

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By the numbers

6years of their reviews we track, 2010 to 2015
How their scores spread
  • 0–490
  • 50s0
  • 60s2
  • 70s2
  • 80s5
  • 90+1

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

Their favorites

  1. The FallYour Future Our Clutter 90 PopMatters
  2. WireChange Becomes Us 80 PopMatters
  3. Flying LotusUntil the Quiet Comes 80 PopMatters
  4. Animal CollectiveCentipede Hz 80 PopMatters
  5. IceageNew Brigade 80 PopMatters

Every review

Outlet
Modest MouseStrangers to Ourselves“On Strangers to Ourselves, Modest Mouse often come off like strangers to themselves. For a group that has maintained such a distinctive musical profile for so”PopMatters60 6/10692015
Lykke LiI Never Learn“Lykke Li has explained that she conceived of her new album I Never Learn as the final installment in a trilogy of works. Going along with that interpretation,”PopMatters70 7/10732014
WireChange Becomes UsPopMatters via Wikipedia80 8/10782013
Flying LotusUntil the Quiet Comes“It’s appropriate that digital review copies of Flying Lotus’ latest opus Until the Quiet Comes came as a single 47-minute track, because, more than most”PopMatters80 8/10822012
Animal CollectiveCentipede Hz“You can make a good argument that Animal Collective is the first essential band wholly born and raised in the online era, a zeitgeist-defining act that could”PopMatters80 8/10732012
Dead Can DanceAnastasisPopMatters via Wikipedia70 7/10652012
IceageNew BrigadePopMatters via Wikipedia80 8/10822011
The StrokesAnglesPopMatters via Wikipedia60 6/10712011
StereolabNot Music“In so many ways is Not Music a fitting curtain call for Stereolab. For starters, there's the belated timing of the album's release, which comes out more than”PopMatters via Wikipedia80 8/10712010
The FallYour Future Our Clutter“Call it a comeback two decades in the making — or going out in style after a long, tempestuous career that started in the 1970s. There's only one indie band”PopMatters via Wikipedia90 9/10822010

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