Any scored review is really only as good as the reviewer is consistent with their scoring. A one off 8/10 really means very little unless you know the baseline that the reviewer is working against.
If you know that over a period of time a reviewer rates music (or films or art or food etc) highly that you really like then there's a very good chance that you'll like any new music (or film or art or food etc) that they rate highly that you haven't heard.
If you've no idea what they've measured against to achieve the 8/10 then really all it tells you is that they like it, but with no substance to really back the rating up.
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