Rating System

14/04/2025

As applied to records, our rating system is defined as:

1 = Little or no artistic merit. To be avoided.

2 = May have redeeming features, but generally workmanlike. Can be listened to, and may have commercial success, but exists entirely or almost entirely within frameworks already defined elsewhere.

3 = A work that encapsulates an existing genre effectively and may contain prominent hits. Could be commercially successful and may contain minor innovation, but does not significantly push any new boundaries.

4 = An influential, popular or very successful work that pushes a genre or movement along or contains a very high standard of work within an existing genre.

5 = A work that either represents the apex of a particular style, genre or artistic movement, or one that creates or materially shapes and defines a new paradigm.