Mic Wright: Album Reviews and Scores

Mic Wright’s album reviews that count toward B-Side Breakdowns: 7 reviews, going back to 2012, each next to the album’s Breakdown.

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

Their scores for each artist, in release order.

	Outlet
Jake Bugg Shangri La“Someone must have bought Jake Bugg a Skiffle compilation and Woody Guthrie’s Best Of in the time since his first album sent the Oasis-deprived massive”	musicOMH	80 4/5	64	2013
Jake Bugg Jake Bugg“There was a time when wearing influences not so much on their sleeve but pinned boldly on their chest was not a problem for musicians. The Beatles”	musicOMH	80 4/5	76	2012
Aimee Mann Charmer“Charm is an interesting thing. You can’t buy it and it’s damn hard to manufacture. Aimee Mann has it in spades, though she’d deny it vehemently, and has”	musicOMH via Wikipedia	60 3/5	66	2012
The Darkness Hot Cakes“The Darkness could have been consigned to history. A question on a future pop quiz, a talking point for the worst kind of talking heads on the worst kind”	musicOMH	80 4/5	68	2012
R. Kelly Write Me Back“R Kelly is, by all accounts, capable of being a not very nice person. The court records show that. But where he differs from the utterly risible Chris”	musicOMH	80 4/5	70	2012
Dead Can Dance Anastasis	musicOMH via Wikipedia	60 3/5	65
The Orb The Orbserver in the Star House	musicOMH via Wikipedia	80 4/5	65

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