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• NME 2009–2016 · 14 reviews

What they review

• Indie & Alternative 29%
• Pop 21%
• Hip-Hop & Rap 14%
• Rock 14%

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Album	Outlet	Their score	Breakdown	Published
The AvalanchesWildflower“In a way, it’s not The Avalanches’ fault that they couldn’t live up to 16 years of myth-making. Musical zeitgeist is fleeting and their 2000 debut ‘Since I Left You’…”	NME via Wikipedia	40 2/5	78	2016
Kings of LeonCome Around Sundown“Nuke the fridge. Jump the shark. Hurdle the monkey. Whatever. There inevitably comes a moment in a huge band’s career where they lose their common touch and become slightly ridiculous.…”	NME via Wikipedia	50 5/10	63	2010
Tame ImpalaInnerspeaker“The traditional, conservative view of rock music, it is said, is that “it peaked in 1967 and has been going steadily downhill ever since”. If so, then [a]Tame Impala[/a] are…”	NME via Wikipedia	80 4/5	83	2010
The Chemical BrothersFurther“Seven albums in and Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons might no longer be raving on the most future-facing side of dancefloor, but their way with an effortless arms-in-the-air banger is…”	NME via Wikipedia	70 7/10	70	2010
Christina AguileraBionic“What a difference a woman wearing a dress made solely of police tape makes. When the awesome cast list for Mousketeer-cum-dirrrty-girl [a]Christina Aguilera[/a]’s fourth record leaked a good two years…”	NME via Wikipedia	50 2.5/5	56	2010
DeftonesDiamond Eyes“It’s a decade since ‘White Pony’ finally pushed [a]Deftones[/a] towards wider critical acceptance, but as ‘Diamond Eyes’ shows, they’ve always sounded timeless. And despite having a rich story behind it…”	NME via Wikipedia	80 8/10	75	2010
FoalsTotal Life Forever“Pity [a]Foals[/a]. All they ever wanted was a steady supply of Rizlas and to play weird music. Unfortunately they wrote a couple of songs some kids enjoyed dancing to, but…”	NME via Wikipedia	80 8/10	75	2010
Flying LotusCosmogramma“Channelling the same cosmic ambition that drove his great-auntie Alice Coltrane, the title of FlyLo’s self-styled ‘space opera’ is perhaps a nod to its boundary-less, map-scrunching approach. In mood and…”	NME via Wikipedia	80 8/10	85	2010
MGMTCongratulations“It’s unfair when a new album’s clouded in popular myth before most people have heard it. It’s unfair as, invariably, the received wisdom of industry mutters turns out to be…”	NME via Wikipedia	60 6/10	69	2010
Johnny CashAmerican VI: Ain’t No Grave“Some things should just be left alone. ‘Ain’t No Grave…’ arrives almost seven years after Cash’s death and four years after ‘American V: A Hundred Highways’, the first posthumous album…”	NME via Wikipedia	40 4/10	73	2010
Kid CudiMan on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager“It’s a merciful relief that, with their second effort in 12 months, The Strange Boys’ ramshackle garage-rock has not so much grown up as merely grown slightly wider. Ryan Sambol’s…”	NME via Wikipedia	90 9/10	73	2010
Vampire WeekendContra“Lord knows they have their detractors, but whatever you might think of them, the simple fact is [a]Vampire Weekend[/a] are now one of the most unique bands on the planet.…”	NME via Wikipedia	80 8/10	78	2010
Robbie WilliamsReality Killed the Video Star	NME via Wikipedia	40 4/10	63	2009
WeezerRaditude“Rivers Cuomo is a deeply weird individual. After the spectacular success of [a]Weezer[/a]’s 1994 debut album – which pretty much invented emo’s melodic wing – instead of embracing rock-star excess,…”	NME via Wikipedia	60 6/10	59	2009

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