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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Think Mogwai at their loudest or a less willfully awkward Godspeed You! Black Emperor. [Apr 2007, p.118]- Q Magazine
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There's... plenty for the merely curious to enjoy. [Aug 2005, p.142]- Q Magazine
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The pair are so full of ideas, there's scarcely a dull moment. [Apr 2007, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Such is the man's zest and pinballing musical imagination that it's hard not to be wildly entertained. [Mar 2007, p.115]- Q Magazine
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A record of jerky, twilit, hard-edged electro.... But for all its experiment and inconsistency, Black Cherry is still a thoroughly likeable album. [May 2003, p.101]- Q Magazine
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There's a bolder choice of material.... Her playing has loosened up too. [Jun 2004, p.100]- Q Magazine
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A familiarly kaleidoscopic whirl of retro-futuristic sounds. [May 2005, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Fusing strange, arresting rhythms with gothic atmospheres, these surprisingly modern-sounding soundscapes should earn Korn a deserved second wind. [Jan 2006, p.127]- Q Magazine
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What on paper might sound like a recipe for disaster in fact turns into a triumph. [Jan 2006, p.125]- Q Magazine
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It's all wilfully haphazard, though the fact that they never sound like they're taking things too seriously happily dispels the whiff of pretension. [Sep 2006, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Above all else, [it] once again underlines Dylan's singularly magnificent gifts as a songwriter. [Apr 2007, p.121]- Q Magazine
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[Smith's] curiously magical songwriting skills... remain undimmed by time and drink. [Nov 2005, p.124]- Q Magazine
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The Secret Migration shows a group in complete control of their cosmic idiom, familiar by now yet still seductive. [Jan 2005, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Though the results are less homemade-sounding than their debut, a mood of playful experimentation is evident throughout. [Feb 2007, p.99]- Q Magazine
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Despite Our Differences bustles with invention, righteous anger and the typically sunshine harmonies. [Apr 2007, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Sounds like a recently awakened Aphex Twin in warm snooze mode. [Oct 2004, p.133]- Q Magazine
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Rock's response is to ease off the hip hop and get back to the '70s, and it works. [Apr 2004, p.114]- Q Magazine
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With genre-hopping abandon he enlists Spanish guitars, jazz bass, reggae horns, rock drums and disco synths, relentlessly asserting that commercial viability and imagination don't have to be mutually exclusive. [May 2005, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Mostly the results are pleasingly wry and wise. [Sep 2005, p.118]- Q Magazine