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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For this stunning first offering South London producer Derwin Panda connects organic harmonies of Noah Lennox's Panda Bear project with Four Tet's dizzying cut-ups. [Nov 2010, p.109]- Q Magazine
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It's the explosion in Diamandis's songwriting that's most noticeable here. [May 2015, p.107]- Q Magazine
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It's with the good-foot funk of Save Me and slow-lane soul of Hold On that Williams's vision really pulls into focus. [Aug 2020, p.113]- Q Magazine
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All in all, the treatment effectively lights these already great songs from fresh angles, revealing hidden depths and added poignancy to what was already a strikingly powerful set of songs. [Sep 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
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His fifth and final Streets album turns into his best since "A Grand Don't Come For Free." [Feb 2011, p.123]- Q Magazine
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Throughout, Grace's gift of melody is only surpassed by her candid lyricism. [Oct 2016, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2016 -
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Invite The Light reaffirms that Dam-Funk needn't coast on others' charisma when his music has more than enough of its own. [Oct 2015, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 27, 2015 -
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On his strongest album yet, Jackson Jr deconstructs the back catalogue of comedian/musician Rudy Ray Moore, star of blaxploitation movie Dolemite. [Sep 2012, p.106]- Q Magazine
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This LP shows fierce songwriting strength. [Feb 2020, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2019 -
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Steele may be in thrall to [Brian] Wilson and The Beatles, but his talent is precocious enough to give him his own very singluar voice. [Aug 2006, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Boundless and ecstatic, this is house music at its very best. [Dec. 2001 p. 126]- Q Magazine
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The result is an album that balances intellectual importance with the simple pleasures if great melodies played on meaty guitars. [Feb 2008, p.94]- Q Magazine
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Occasionally Hawkline veers off the rails, but his overall cryptic psyche surrenders its charms easily. [Jul 2017, p.108]- Q Magazine
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There's a lot going on, but Welch never confuses breadth with depth. [Aug 2009, p.98]- Q Magazine
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They've re-emerged, stronger, more focused and full of headspinning ideas. [May 2012, p.106]- Q Magazine
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A Circle Without Having To Curve is a billowing transmission from some gigantic sullen hulk. Elsewhere texture, hiss and layered voices head into abstraction, but if you think he's afraid of revealing himself, the voice and guitar reprise Contain (Cedar Version) ends the album with a sweet re-entry to the daylight. [Aug 2016, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Zeroes QC bristles with ideas, assimilating elements of Krautrock, electronica and post-punk to dazzling effect. [Feb 2011, p.124]- Q Magazine
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There are guitars, but they are rarely central. The beat-driven tracks veer towards the arty, white boy-with-beatbox line of Talking Heads and The Clash. [May 2003, p.96]- Q Magazine
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The 17 loose, grungy guitar-led songs here ... sound full of renewed energy. [May 2012, p.103]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 25, 2012 -
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Turn Off The News captures his talents in full bloom. [Sep 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
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Face Stabber finds him in cosmic wigout mode, double majoring in late-'60s psychedelia and early-'70s Krautrock. [Sep 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2019 -
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Overall this is a record that's as thrillingly dark and overwhelming as anything they've attempted to date. [Oct 2015, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2015