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
8545
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reviews
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Rather like Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante's solo work, Malone pootles around the margins of commerciality, nodding to the avant mischief of Buthole Surfers and engaging folksy clatter of Devandra Banhart, while on Driftwood Heart the vocals are almost oepratic. [Dec 2009, p. 120]- Q Magazine
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L.A.-based quintet unleash positively euphoric debut. [Oct 2011, p.120]- Q Magazine
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It doesn't quite touch the invention of the people who inspired it. [Dec 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Between The Walls is a fascinating insight into the creative process that crackles electrically between Taylor, John Coxon, Charles Hayward, and Pat Thomas. [Aug 2013, p.93]- Q Magazine
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The only disappointment that, at barely half-an-hour, there isn't a bit more of it. [Oct 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
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They're at their most effective when they ease back on the aggro, as on the luminous Side Effects or the '60s-garage pop-influenced Two Birds. [Nov 2017, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Cantaloupe Island, for instance, hit the target, even if it's no match for the Herbie Hancock original. But with more cabaret material such as Me And My Shadow's louche duet with Sarah Silverman, you really wish you'd been there first time around. [Jan 2019, p.109]- Q Magazine
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The spare production on their second album is less indebted to the post-punk era. [July 2010, p. 129]- Q Magazine
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The results are entertaining and witty, as well as educational, even if at times the tunes have to perform contortions to squeeze all the lyrics in. [Jul 2010, p.141]- Q Magazine
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The result is confusion, of what the band really wishes to be. [Nov 2015, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Too many of Coxon's conceptual songs are crucified on the cross of his man-child voice, neither weird enough to beguile nor strong enough to hold your attention. [Jun 2009, p.124]- Q Magazine
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If there's a problem, it's Bubba's one-track rhymes. All he ever talks about is himself. [Jun 2006, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Beautiful Creature dwells too self-indulgently in a faux naïve girlish tone...- Q Magazine
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When they stop bing so smart, Join With Us becomes more rewarding. [Mar 2008, p.106]- Q Magazine
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This improbable return could almost be a relic excavated from their mid-'70s heyday. [Dec 2012, p.110]- Q Magazine
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[Pure Love] spiritedly serves up a full album's worth of way-above-par songs, which are radio friendly. [Mar 2013, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Masterful and poignant, it reveals Mason to be a heavyweight talent. [Apr 2007, p.119]- Q Magazine
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They make all the right moves on this brilliant debut. [Jun 2017, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Rockabilly queen gets the Jack White treatment. [Feb. 2011, p. 118]- Q Magazine
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There's greater scope here [more] than ever before, with the gentle llyena providing space before Cavaletta's riot of detuned radios, car alarms and struggling internet connections. [Feb 2008, p.99]- Q Magazine
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Ominous fourth album from the masters of emotional turbulence. [Oct. 2010, p. 118]- Q Magazine
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This third full-length solo record is a rich blend of different genres that, despite its rampant eclecticism, never jars. [Nov. 2011, p. 128]- Q Magazine
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So There seems far more a compositional exercise for Folds rather than an album for the wider public. [Oct 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Leblanc doesn't break new ground, but he treads his haunted patch with quiet grace. [Sep 2012, p.104]- Q Magazine
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This latest studio offering is equally tricky to categorise. The mood, though, never overwhelms. [Dec 2013, p.105]- Q Magazine
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Much of what follows sounds like he's set his overdriven synths to autopilot with vocalists Keith Flint and Maxim Reality reduced to the odd irate interjection. [Dec 2018, p.113]- Q Magazine
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