Q Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
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42% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
| Highest review score: | A Hero's Death | |
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| Lowest review score: | Gemstones |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4,112 out of 8545
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Mixed: 4,355 out of 8545
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Negative: 78 out of 8545
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There is a uniform strength to its material... Wrecking Ball doesn't have a dud. [April 2012, p.92]- Q Magazine
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At its best she sounds like St. Vincent with finger cymbals and a kaftan, a talent blooming on her own terms. [Oct 2015, p.106]- Q Magazine
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It proves to be an entertaining and profitable arrangement. [May 2010, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Cape God might be an awful place to visit, but the tunes are great. [Apr 2020, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Seeking Thrills is an artfully constructed yet instantly enjoyable tribute to dancefloor deliverance in all its forms. [Feb 2020, p.117]- Q Magazine
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A work of astonishing beauty with a time travel concept more out-there than Bjork's ever been. [Dec 2008, p.133]- Q Magazine
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His seventh album sees Vile cement his place as an artist following his own lead. [Nov 2018, p.103]- Q Magazine
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From sterling ballads to punchy rockers, it's a classy set. But the initail post-Obama musings of Welcome To The Future already seem dated and, as ever, it's hard to know where the buyer will come from. [Aug 2010, p.124]- Q Magazine
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Like all the best break-up albums, Who Needs Who bleeds heartache from every lyric, but keeps faith in music as the surest form of consolation. [Oct 2012, p.97]- Q Magazine
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All compensate in quality for what they lack in originality. [Aug 2014, p.107]- Q Magazine
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The newly remastered version is also bolstered by three additional track as reclaimed from the vaults. [Apr 2011, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Their finest record since 2002's Light & Magic, Ladytron achieve near perfection here. [Apr 2019, p.114]- Q Magazine
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[This fifth album] still sounds refreshingly unconventional. [Apr 2014, p.116]- Q Magazine
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Maybe having others to lean on in the big bad world brings the best out of Fullbrook, who sounds bright and confident where once she was charmingly hesitant. [Jun 2014, p.122]- Q Magazine
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These are songs concerned with the transient, the fleeting, but no matter how long this partnership endures, this is a solid monument. [Apr 2019, p.110]- Q Magazine
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The British collective's first album in 12 years reopens their conduit for nocturnal electronic, modern classical and tempestuous jazz, all in an engaging wash. Credit their bold selection of vocalists. [May 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Joseph D'Agostino's voice can get a little grating: too often he's hysterically over-emoting. [Oct 2014, p.107]- Q Magazine
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The dizzying "Here Comes All The People," this roller-coaster album's highlight, merges post-punk trash with whispered vocals, orchestral wizardry, funky guitar, tub-thumping drums and Snow Patrol-esque grandeur. [Apr 2010, p.115]- Q Magazine
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Another slug of moonshine and a rootsy rock from the Georgia sextet. [March 2011, p. 108]- Q Magazine
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There's a real elegance, even a joy, to the way he mixes his dark materials. [Nov 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
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While this album carries more instrumental and emotional heft than its predecessor, something remains off-balance. [Jun 2010, p.130]- Q Magazine
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Despite its running time and the magpie-like pilfering, on this amusing and bemusing album Mount never seems remotely in danger of repeating himself--or, for that matter, anybody else. [Oct 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Hunting My Dress rejoices in an off-the-cuff dreamlike sensuality, pitching and rolling in all sorts of pleasingly unexpected directions. [Dec 2009, p. 115]- Q Magazine
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Rub reboots the elements that made The Teaches Of Peaches the essential electroclash album back in 2000. [Nov 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
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The gloom is unyielding, but so is the lightness of touch and few albums will encapsulate 2017 with such elan. [Jun 2017, p.112]- Q Magazine
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While The Singles offers a skewed perspective on their career, the real attraction lies in the rarity of some of the material, such as Turtles Have Short Legs. A must for diehards, then. [Aug 2017, p.113]- Q Magazine
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The levity of the words is the perfect counterbalance to the fury of their playing. [Nov 2015, p.110]- Q Magazine
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The 32-year-old's always-phenomenal flow is now matched by weighty content. [Sep 2017, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Screen Memories feels like the cryptic overspill, gnomic fragments of ideas and visions embedded in gloriously baroque synth-pop. [Dec 2017, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2017 -
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The flawless record that Yorkston has long promised. [Oct 2014, p.121]- Q Magazine
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True, the Estelle-sung can't Wait sounds out of place, but elsewhere this is an estimable example of making things just like they used to. [Sep 2013, p.99]- Q Magazine
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Boy King is an album that exudes confidence to try new things, to experiment, to pull things apart and pull them back together again. [Sep 2016, p.100]- Q Magazine
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The two-part "Metal Bird" is genuinely thrilling. They don't scale such heights elesewhere, but this is still an album that rewards perseverance. [Mar 2010, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Nothing Important is madcap, abrasive and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny. [Jan 2015, p.124]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 8, 2014 -
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An album of abundant imagination, if elusive meaning. [Sep 2018, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Powder Burns could be a sister album to Black Love, [Afghan Whigs'] career high. [Jun 2006, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Far from being a downer, these songs are frequently sublime. [Feb 2016, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2016 -
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The results can veer wildly from the alluring to the downright alarming. Yet Gately's ear for melody holds it all together. [Dec 2016, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Heartbreaking Bravery's pop sensibilities take Moonface out of his bizarre world and into a place much more accessible. [May 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 25, 2012 -
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On this career highlight they deliver their memorandum as effectively as at any time in their 30-odd-years of operation. [May 2013, p.113]- Q Magazine
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DeVotchKa's preference for songs that don't necessarily result in feverish fopsweat actually serve to highlight much mongrel charm. [Apr 2008, p.107]- Q Magazine
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The whole thing comes with a sort of knowing childishness, like reverting back to your most obnoxious teenage self after 10 Minutes with your family. [Apr 2016, p.112]- Q Magazine
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For the most part, Made In The Dark pulses with an unusual intelligence and creative bravery. [Mar 2008, p.101]- Q Magazine
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They're talented then, but also lucky that the strength of the decent songs outweighs the inclusion of the odd rough sketch, a studio jam, and an outright Chas & Dave-style stinker. [Dec 2002, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Houck's trip through Nelson's 60-plus albums shows such love and attention the great man himself could only approve of such hangover gems as 'I Gotta Get Drunk.' [Mar 2009, p.101]- Q Magazine
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This time, Lemmy Gurtowsky and Dan Jones are joined by guitarist Zach Brower and drummer Cole Lanier. The pair have slowed them down in a good way. [Apr 2015, p.97]- Q Magazine
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Coda mopped up odds and sods and two new discs include Page and Plant's 1972 recordings with the Bombay Orchestra. [Sep 2015, p.121]- Q Magazine
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These songs' surfaces are fastidiously arranged - but in his delicate vocals and allusive, nervy lyrics, Westerman still stirs up darker, less elegantly curated depths. [Summer 2020, p.107]- Q Magazine
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A startling collection of heart-bruising ballads reminiscent of Nick Cave at his most maudlin. [Aug 2003, p.115]- Q Magazine
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The most successful synthesis of their prog-tinged ambitions so far. [Apr 2003, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Another beautifully scored Divine Comedy album that sounds a bit like Scott Walker and a lot like the last one. [May 2004, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Sees WK adding a little more classic rock sensibility to his high-energy party metal. [Oct 2003, p.100]- Q Magazine
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The likes of the gnarled, rough-edged Rollin' & Tumblin' serve as vital pieces of living history from the last of a generation. [Dec 2001, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Wolf Alice is fiendishly difficult to pin down, bu they're full of inspired ideas rather than lacking direction. [Jun 2015, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2015 -
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They make modern life's drain and strain exhilarating. [Mar 2020, p.120]- Q Magazine
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As ever... not everything comes off. But the good bits are very good indeed. [Apr 2007, p.116]- Q Magazine
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Suffused in African melody and harmony, the touches of house and hip-hop more decorative than foundational, it reads like Esau's love letter to his homeland. [Jun 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted May 6, 2015 -
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Alt-rap veteran's lo-fi gamble pays off handsomely. [Sept. 2011, p. 116]- Q Magazine
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Twisty and characterful, this is frequently dazzling stuff. [May 2014, p.118]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2014 -
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More an EP than an album, it's possibly not for the unwitting. [Apr 2015, p.102]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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Humor Risk is another casually monumental achievement from one of the great singer-songwriters of the day. [Dec. 2011 p. 130]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
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Their heritage might be clear, but over 10 songs and 22 minutes, their grip on the present never lets up. [Aug 2014, p.115]- Q Magazine
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The vintage record store rummaging has given way to a more pared-back sound. Here, retro guitar tones and proggy breakdowns complement rather than dominate. [May 2018, p.114]- Q Magazine
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He's never that far from plunging towards obviousness. [Jun 2004, p.108]- Q Magazine
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A spontaneous, short, sharp stab of a record but one that might have been great had it not sounded so rushed. [April 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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The album is so cacophonous that it borders on the unpleasant. Yet there are redemptive moments. [Summer 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Posted Jun 2, 2015 -
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Pick of the bunch is 'March of the Camels,' which marries a doomy baseline with children's choir backing vocals, and exemplifies their gift for the surreal. [Apr 2008, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Immaculately crafted, and with a smattering of good songs, it's also disappointingly samey, with all too little standing out and demanding to be heard. [May 2010, p.125]- Q Magazine
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A far more considered affair, wistful, even half-regretful, yet redolent of breezing down the freeway from the Deep South to California with the Stones and Flying Burrito Brothers on the radio. [Aug 2016, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2016 -
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Saulnier's wild-man-on-a-rampage vocals are no longer hidden behind the unfettered sequel of his equally uncivilized guitar. [Jul 2012, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Even if she sometimes strays into down-home schmaltz, the world of alt-folk would be poorer without her. [Apr 2007, p.122]- Q Magazine
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The uninitiated may find the unrelenting nerve-soothing a little too much like anaesthesia. [May 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
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The presence of more filler than is comfortable does not detract from the creative health in evidence on the better songs. [Feb 2006, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Hit Reset presents Hanna in rude creative health. Only on closer Calverton does any vulnerability peek through. [Aug 2016, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2016 -
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The production lacks the loose-fit liveliness and lightness of touch which was The Dust Brothers' trademark back in the mid-'90s. [Apr 2005, p.114]- Q Magazine
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His first album in more than 15 years sees him back atr the musical vanguard--thanks in large part to XL boss and producer, Richard Russell, whose arrangements brilliantly frame the 60-year-old's rich burr and terse street poetry with brooding electronica and stark blues handclaps. [Mar 2010, p.106]- Q Magazine