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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The future of pop? Only if you've read too many fashion magazines. [June 2002, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Emphathetic, female-friendly and always one step removed from the Nashville machine, Carpenter brought a welcome touch of class to country music in the early '90s. Though she's nowhere near the force of yore, those same attributes shine through on The Age of Miracles. [Jun 2010, p.132]- Q Magazine
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The mood is too heavy for far too long, but some good songs and more cohesive, melodic structures augur well for this damaged daughter's future. [Sep 2001, p.115]- Q Magazine
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Even its most unlistenable moments command attention with a ferocity that most musicians get nowhere near. [Mar 2004, p.98]- Q Magazine
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As ever, his lyrics are oblique yet thought-provoking, if sometimes unwieldy. [Sep 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
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La Futura is better when ZZ Top and producer Rick Rubin mess with the formula. [Nov 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
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The tales of love, loss, life and death on his 14th album are embellished with brass flourishes for the first time, which only adds to the sense of drama. [Nov 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Your tolerance for extended jams will be tested but it's a varied and mesmerizing trip nonetheless. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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There's nothing essential here, but there's nothing to dislike either. [Apr 2008, p.115]- Q Magazine
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It's like a broken radio stuck between frequencies, at once disorienting, woozy and supremely psychedelic. [Nov 2010, p.112]- Q Magazine
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They sound like a band expanding their horizons with success. [Mar 2012, p. 100]- Q Magazine
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It's nowhere McCartney hasn't been before, yet it's still richer and more varied than he's been in years. [Jan 2009, p.116]- Q Magazine
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While mostly perfectly acceptable as individual songs, the 13 tracks don't really stack up as an album, not one that gets close to his best anyway. [Mar 2009, p.94]- Q Magazine
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The quartet's unhurried groove-based approach makes for a captivating listen. [Jun 2009, p.134]- Q Magazine
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Only really worth investigating if you already own everything by the constituents' day-job acts. [Aug 2009, p.109]- Q Magazine
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For the most part, the duo's fourth full-length curbs their indulgent tendencies. [Jun 2011, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Less fixatedly house-centric than before, I'm Leaving incorporates fuzzy dance-rock under the influence of girl groups and New Order. [Jul 2013, p.106]- Q Magazine
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There's a seductive, deliberately synthesized feel that's part Scissor Sisters, part Hall & Oates. [Feb 2006, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Jimmy's Show is filled with richly melodic songs, filled with whimsical lyrics about tea, sailors, table tennis and Ford Escorts. [Nov 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Steel-plated national treasures hit the epic button. [Sept. 2010, p. 117]- Q Magazine
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This is a n intriguing mini epic of double-drummed grooves and skronking noise. [Jan 2015, p.131]- Q Magazine
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The duo deliver traditional virtues and a familiar Yuletide ambiance here. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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The first few tracks feel like a positive transformation into sharper songcraft, but when New Moon latter half descends to the noisemongery of yore, right down to Freaky's flat-out Dinosaur Jr.-ism, one does have to ask: will the real Men please stand up? [Apr 2013, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2013