About Any Decent Music
Any Decent Music is a service intended to help lovers of
contemporary music get access to a broad range of critical opinion
on releases of all types of music.
The team behind ADM is made up of music lovers. Having many times
read a rave review of an album release only to buy the CD and be
more than a little underwhelmed by the reality, we thought this
service would be one we would use. And, by extension, so would
others.
There are other websites out there doing something similar. What
differentiates ADM from the rest? We like to think it's the choices
we make in terms of which review publications we survey and which
releases we include. If you're an open-minded music fan, happy to
lend an ear to anything from avant-garde Swedish electronica to
Seattle drone rock or Celtic-tinged alt folk, we hope to have it
covered, and much more besides. And we aim to be discerning about
whose opinions we feature. We include only extracts of reviews from
publications that we trust - those which are intelligent,
independent and sussed.
We are not a wholescale review aggregator, automatically sweeping
up anything and everything relating to an album release regardless
of its value. Everything on ADM has been manually reviewed,
selected and added.
We're based in the UK, and we make no apology if there is a
balance in favour of UK opinions on the site, but we include what
we regard as the best of American reviews and from Canada and
Australia, and - of course - there are no geographical boundaries
for the music itself.
Each entry in the ADM listing is accorded a score out of ten which
is an average of all the reviews of the release. Not all
publications provide numerical ratings. In these instances the
review has been considered in full and an appropriate value
given.
Each release has to have at least five reviews to be included in
the chart, to ensure that every inclusion is based on a balanced
weight of opinion and to eliminate the possibility of freak
appearances due to one over-enthusiastic review.
The main Recent Releases chart has a six-week time limit, from the
date of inclusion in the chart. However if there is a release which
is still attracting attention for whatever reason beyond that
timescale, the time limit can be extended.
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We include extracts of reviews which are as brief as possible but
long enough to give a reasonable flavour of the opinion of the
writer, and always carry a link to the original review so users can
read the full review.
CONTACT
If you wish to get in touch for whatever reason, email us:
admin@anydecentmusic.com
ally@anydecentmusic.com
terry@anydecentmusic.com