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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Building a forthright sound on upfront drums, piano and Stephen Patterson's angsty vocals, tracks including Burundi-drumming lead single Percussion gun and the suspenseful groover Right Where They Left are a winning balance of art-indie mope and pop energy. [Feb 2010, p. 113]- Q Magazine
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There are few surprises here: white trash raps hollered over a musical backdrop that sounds like an evil pub rock band.- Q Magazine
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It's hardly original, but is frequently beautiful. [Feb 2011, p.123]- Q Magazine
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His straitjacket is an entrenched reliance on "lighters aloft" ballads, or, ironically, Oasis-derived anthems. [Dec 2002, p.113]- Q Magazine
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At first listening, this feels vexingly inconsequential, but after a few loosening listens the music's slight but simple pleasures shine through.- Q Magazine
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Respite is offered up by the lilting Don't Go Outside, which reveals a beating heart beneath the conceptual framework. [Mar 2020, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Full of borrowed ideas put together in a not unpleasant or unoriginal way, their sound is still too close to the myriad other wannabes trailing in The Libertines' and Razorlight's wake. [Oct 2006, p.119]- Q Magazine
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It's all very cinematic and atmospheric but with lyrics offering a light, sixth-form poetry vibe, much here is easy to bid adieu to. [May 2020, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Its opening five minutes posit the sound of "war machinery" grinding slowly to the point of metallic cacophony, but there are many more intriguing pieces afoot. [Jan 2014, p.122]- Q Magazine
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The result is like a more chaotic Nirvana or Dinosaur Jr, with gentle diversions into geeky indie, drone-rock and fuzz-pop that only enhance the racket-making around it. [Apr 2013, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Her collaborations, from Foo Fighters to Ray Charles. [Jan. 2011, p. 151]- Q Magazine
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There's an intimacy to these songs that makes it feel like you're intruding on some private sorrow, but there's no denying their ability to sustain a mood. [Jun 2009, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Separations, divorce, remarriage and kids all feed into 12 tracks of disastrous love, welcome redemption and rekindled fire, but not everything works. [May 2016, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Pete Wareham's group balances playfulness and tunes with rhythmic invention and experiementalism, arriving somewhere between punk and prog. [Aug 2009, p.101]- Q Magazine
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The follow-up to 2009's Everything To Nothing crackles with energy. [Jun 2011, p.119]- Q Magazine
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This is a warped beach record tailor-made for heads' holidays. [Sep 2018, p.118]- Q Magazine
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Confusion's left in its wake, of course, but such is the price of the peaks. [Oct 2017, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Second album is polished, though its anthemic pop-metalcore suffers from thinking its better than it is. [Aug. 2011, p. 119]- Q Magazine
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Irwin peppers her songs with Southern Gothic characters, while her keening, naive voice suggests remote mountains where dark deeds are the norm. [Oct 23012, p.94]- Q Magazine
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The likes of 'Americans Abroad' and 'White People For Peace' pick up where Green Day's "American Idiot" left off, channelling righteous fury into a racket that's as vigorous as it's earnest. [Sep 2007, p.88]- Q Magazine
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Ambitious, yes, inventive, sometimes, but waiting for those rare moments of clarity is like trying to catch a cloud in a colander. [Nov 208, p.118]- Q Magazine
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A little too heavily indebted to fellow Aussies Nick Cave and The Triffids' late David McComb, even if that's not a bad place to be coming form. [Mar 2009, p.105]- Q Magazine