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Find out this month's critics' choice and the critics' choice for album of the year.
See 'best of year' album lists and award winners (such as Mercury Music Prize and The Brits).
Ratings collated from:
Uncut - Mojo - NME - Q - Times - Sunday Times - Independent - Guardian - Observer Music Monthly - Independent on Sunday
Over 3 years the site has built a database containing over 1450 CD releases and over 7,500 review ratings.
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Updated: 5th May 2008
Critics Choice - Top of Current Month Ratings:
| Bon Iver | For Emma, Forever Ago | Ave. Rating= 86% |
| Publication | Rating | Soundbite |
|---|---|---|
| Q | 4/5 | |
| The Independent | 4/5 | ..the cumulative effect is powerfully hypnotic |
| NME | 7/10 | |
| Uncut | 5/5 | A classic debut album |
| Mojo | 5/5 | Isolation doesn't get more splendid than this. |
| To see all May releases and ratings Click here | ||
Critics Choice - Top of This Year's Ratings (CDs with 5 or more ratings):
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! | Ave. Rating= 88% |
| Publication | Rating | Soundbite |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian | 5/5 | ..hilarious, chilling and exhilarating |
| Independent on Sunday | 5/5 | |
| Q | 4/5 | |
| NME | 8/10 | |
| Mojo | 4/5 | ..scorcher |
| Uncut | 4/5 | The band has never sounded better.. |
| Sunday Times | 5/5 | ..an album so brimming and crackling with invention, violence, beauty, mystery, humour and malevolence |
| The Times | 4/5 | |
| The Independent | 4/5 | |
| Observer Music Monthly | 5/5 | ..thrilling, atmospheric and damn funny |
| To see all 2008 releases and ratings Click here | ||
| 5 May |
| Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge |
| The Delays - Everything's The Rush |
| Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell |
| Kate Rusby - Who Knows Where The Time Goes |
| Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours |
| 12 May |
| Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt |
| Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs |
| Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark |
| Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too |
| The Charlatans - You Cross My Path |
| 19 May |
| The Dresden Dolls - No Virginia |
| The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing |
| Scarlett Johannson - Anywhere I Lay My Head |
| 26 May |
| Kano - MC No.1 |
| Pigeon Detectives - Emergency |
| Spiritualized - Songs in A&E |
| 2 June |
| Paul Weller - 22 Dreams |
| The Zutons - You Can Do Anything |
| 9 June |
| The Fratellis - Here We Stand |
| 16 June |
| The Music - Strength in Numbers |
| Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends |
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