B-Side Guys

Christian Cottingham

Christian Cottingham’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 10 reviews, going back to 2008, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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What they review

  • Indie & Alternative 30%
  • Electronic 20%
  • Rock 20%
  • Hip-Hop & Rap 10%

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By the numbers

9years of their reviews we track, 2008 to 2016
3outlets their reviews here ran in
How their scores spread
  • 0–490
  • 50s0
  • 60s1
  • 70s2
  • 80s6
  • 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. DaughterIf You Leave 95 The Line of Best Fit
  2. The AvalanchesWildflower 85 The Line of Best Fit
  3. MúmSmilewound 80 The Line of Best Fit
  4. Nine Inch NailsHesitation Marks 80 The Line of Best Fit
  5. Atoms for PeaceAmok 80 The Line of Best Fit

Every review

Outlet
The AvalanchesWildflower“A wide-eyed and gleeful crayon meld of primary colour and clashing sounds that doesn’t give a damn about staying within the lines.”The Line of Best Fit85 8.5/10782016
Ben HowardI Forget Where We Were“Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were. A familiar mesh of earnest words and slow builds…”Clash via Wikipedia70 7/10752014
MúmSmilewound“The Icelandic band's sixth album is a curiously joyous affair, but the smiles suit them more than you might imagine.”The Line of Best Fit80 8/10702013
Nine Inch NailsHesitation Marks“Whatever Reznor promised, this isn’t an evolution for the band but a very confident assertion of what they do well – heck, what they do better than anyone else.”The Line of Best Fit80 8/10762013
DaughterIf You Leave“If You Leave is staggeringly beautiful from beginning to close, a catharsis that’s both bracing and woozily amniotic.”The Line of Best Fit95 9.5/10732013
Atoms for PeaceAmok“Never anything less than interesting, this is an album that shows us, finally, what Thom Yorke’s dancing sounds like, itchy and erratic and utterly compulsive.”The Line of Best Fit80 8/10732013
The Mars VoltaNoctourniquet“For over a decade now The Mars Volta haven’t so much made albums as psychological tests, works that stretch far beyond mere collections of notes and”musicOMH80 4/5722012
GorillazThe Fall“Amidst the clamour and headlines surrounding Damon Albarn's use of an iPad to record Gorillaz' fourth album, the music itself was kind of overlooked. Now,”musicOMH70 3.5/5652011
LostprophetsThe Betrayed“Like the protagonist in Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray, lostprophets live two lives. In the first they're much like the rest of us, ageing steadily”musicOMH60 3/5762010
A Place to Bury StrangersA Place to Bury Strangers“It's rare that the hyperbole of an album's press release is outdone by the plaudits of reviewers, but the fevered accolades cawing from such luminaries as”musicOMH via Wikipedia80 4/5782008

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