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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Without enough killer hooks Leo seems unlikely to claw his way much beyond cult attraction. [Mar 2005, p.100]- Q Magazine
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By manically pinballing between ideas, Rock Steady soon flirts with disaster. [Dec 2001, p.119]- Q Magazine
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The Heavy remain The Black keys for people who'd rather dance than mosh. [Sep 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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It resonates with the kind of high seriousness that never weighed on his father. Still, the younger Jeffes brings a winning feel for modern, post-ambient arrangements. [Dec 2019, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Should go down well with listeners who like their singers to take break-ups badly. [Nov 2005, p.125]- Q Magazine
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The tension between light and dark is this album's masterstroke. [Oct 2012, p.104]- Q Magazine
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The songs struggle to cause any real emotional damage. [Nov 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Storm & Grace is a likeable record if not a startling one. [Nov 2012, p.92]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2012 -
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With a surfeit of samey country-rock ballads, Not Too Late ultimately proves rather a long haul. [Feb 2007, p.98]- Q Magazine
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So outstanding is 'Cinderella' that its siblings pale in its shadow. [Sep 2007, p.88]- Q Magazine
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Uptempo grooves such as Bobcat Gold Wraith may be too workmanlike to build up much momentum, but there are some lovely moments here. [Jul 2010, p.128]- Q Magazine
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This is a collection of grooves rather than songs, but there's depth. [Sept. 2010, p. 113]- Q Magazine
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'Treshold Apprehension' features his best screaming since the Pixies' heyday, while 'Test Pilot Blues' and 'Your Mouth Into Mine' capture his imagination at its padded-cell best. [Oct 2007, p.94]- Q Magazine
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You come to see the The Lovely Eggs are an act of fine calibration of noise and sweetness, of intelligence and brutish mettle. [Jun 2020, p.102]- Q Magazine
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The distance from here to early triumphs Entertainment! and Solid Gold seems like a long one. [Jun 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
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The follow-up To 2008's ProVisions is another fine addition to his cannon. [Dec 2010, p.109]- 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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In the second half, the gloom gradually lifts with dreamlike ballads Midnight Ease and Until You Kiss Me, and some of its predecessor's brilliance returns. [Sep 2018, p.110]- Q Magazine
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The producer's spectral strand of electro-noir is as seductive as it is unsettling on his debut album. [Sep 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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As a kind of '90s bedsit atmosphere plug-in, it works perfectly. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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It might be largely business as usual, then, but for all that A Place To Bury Strangers remain strangely comforting presence in an otherwise turbulent world. [Mar 2015, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Too Many Miracles, I Saw You Walk Away and This Electric come lovingly swaddled in strings and, if only for their duration, make the world a nicer place. [Nov 2010, p.105]- Q Magazine
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Robust structuring is a blessing and curse: for all the frills and trapdoors, Ex-Hex's workmanlike rhythms eventually get monotonous. [May 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Very silly, but with enough invention to sustain interest. [Apr 2013, p.104]- Q Magazine
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A few more songs like the kaleidoscopic Beyond The Deathray would've broken the relentless pace but on the whole this is another shape-shifting evolution in a career full of them. [May 2015, p.103]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2015 -
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There's nothing to diminish his status as a nearly great, albeit mostly unheralded, American songwriter. [Feb 2011, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Themes of fun, sun and beach-bum ennui pervade, but even if it fails to reach the summery stoner highs of their previous record, there's no denying The Only Place's indomitable West Coast pop-rock melodies and sugary thrills. [Jun 2012, p.97]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2012