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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It's the orchestral pop of Red Rover, Red Rover and the others that sweep the album along. [Apr 2013, p.113]- Q Magazine
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It's the way Margo Timmins' distinctive, kohl-eyed delivery melts into Notes Falling Slow's funereal throb that remains the band's USP. [Jul 2004, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Songs Of Experience will likely go down as a late-career classic. [Jan 2018, p.104]- Q Magazine
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It's still on the dancefloor showstoppers--No Enemiesz, Giant In My Heart--that she really comes alive. [Jan 2015, p.127]- Q Magazine
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If you dance easily at weddings then this album is very good news. [Aug 2005, p.129]- Q Magazine
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This is an album you need to be enveloped by--the louder it is, the better it sounds. [Jun 2016, p.115]- 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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It's the very real emotional core that save Straight No Chaser from being just a slickly anonymous pop confection. [Nov 2009, p.100]- Q Magazine
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[Stereo Total] have neither the songs nor the art to make their electro-doodlings anything more than an exercise in narcissistic cool. [Apr 2005, p.124]- Q Magazine
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A lack of sonic variety and a mild sense of deja vu won't help to advance his cause. [Aug 2014, p.110]- Q Magazine
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If it's not an easy introduction to Mascis's work, for the converted it's a treat. [Jul 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Over two discs, the schtick loses it flashpan charm. In bursts, though, there's much that impresses. [Oct 2014, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Lack[s] both the energy of Sebadoh and the quirkiness of his Folk Implosion project. [Mar 2005, p.98]- Q Magazine
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The State Of Things confirms RATM will be following the Arctic Monkeys down the MI and onto the nation's radios for sometime yet. [Nov 2007, p.145]- Q Magazine
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A sleek fusion of minimal bass, subtle breakbeats and surpise vocalists. [Apr 2010, p.111]- Q Magazine
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The Marge Simpson of nu-soul continues to meander down her own path. [Nov 2014, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Their brand of ant music has matured and expanded noticeably since ANThology. [Sep 2003, p.98]- Q Magazine
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All baes covered, an international hit seems guaranteed. [Oct 2002, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Thankfully... this reissue comes with a bonus instrumental disc, allowing the orchestral menace to speak for itself. [Oct 2003, p.127]- Q Magazine
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If they're not stressing about anything, neither will the listener, meaning meager traces remain when it's finished. [Dec 2013, p.105]- Q Magazine
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Much of this third album comes on like a bubblegum Breeders, sparsely arranged around Nash's spinal basslines. [Apr 2013, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Hornby and Folds would seem to be a good fit in the checkered history of author/musician collaborations. And so it proves, up to a point. [Oct 2010, p.107]- Q Magazine
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When she stops bawling (on Colors), Potter reveals herself as an affecting vocalist who deserves better than the barroom. [Sept. 2010, p.118]- Q Magazine
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Justin Hawkins' vocal histrionics can, at times grate, but for suckers of old-school guitar riffs and songs about the Viking invasion of East Anglia, there's much to enjoy. [Jul 2015, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted May 28, 2015