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● THE MUSIC WEBSITE is celebrating its 25th birthday by doing something odd. It’s decided to go back and “rescore” the reviews that it got “wrong” — or, as the writer Freddie de Boer derisively put it, the publication has assigned “new hacks to give scores that better reflect the conventional wisdom”. , says de Boer, has always been principally concerned with “what a cool person thinks”. The website was born in the early days of the internet as an edgy outsider, nipping at the heels of the opinion into an unfashionable embarrassment.

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