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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In its elegiac tone, its gauzy production and its sense of impending finality, The Ghosts is Williams' Time Out Of Mind, the album on which Bob Dylan pondered his own mortality. [Mar 2016, p.117]- Q Magazine
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The Eastern motifs on Infinty are trite. Ultimately, it's not enough to derail this engrossing record. [Jun 2011, p.116]- Q Magazine
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An album that shows just how ambitious, fresh and vital-sounding guitar music can still be. [Jun 2018, p.108]- Q Magazine
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A masterful collection of songs from an overlooked, but truly brilliant artist. [Apr 2016, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Intriguing, unpredictable and far from ordinary. [Mar 2007, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Where Grinderman 2 does possess unique ace is its skillfully employed shot of psychedelia. [Oct 2010, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Still a stunningly individual reinvention of hip hop and R&B, with great songs swimming in a murk of bizarre arrangements. [Apr 2002, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Her jazz-tinged voice soars; the music manages to be both wonderfully austere and subtly strange. [Jun 2004, p.98]- Q Magazine
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This collection is laced with a compelling sense of psychosis. [Dec 2003, p.156]- Q Magazine
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The Dallas-born singer is still making music that's deep and unorthodox. [May 2008, p.141]- Q Magazine
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The whole album passes without anything you could call a tune, but there's a keen intelligence at work: while fiercely odd, it's frequently electrifying, too. [Feb 2010, p. 112]- Q Magazine
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Eyes On The Lines is the follow-up to his excellent 2014 album Way Out Weather and it finds Gunn rolling down the same never-ending dusty highway. [Jul 2016, p.108]- Q Magazine
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The Return may feel long and complex, but time and space reveal a unique new voice. [Oct 2019, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Listeners so far unhipped to the contemporary avant-classical may find themselves pleasantly intrigued. [Feb 2018, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Wounded Rhymes is the moment Lykke Liu has edged ahead of the pack. And she still understands the value of a mighty percussive wallop. [Apr 2011, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Fans of Fleet Foxes will find much to enjoy on his seventh album: there's a backwoods feel to much of his material and no shortage of sublime melodies. [Jun 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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Weaving Song and Poor Old Horse's exhilarating communal bellow show the band homespun and raw. [Mar 2018, p.115]- Q Magazine
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At times recalling Eno's Another Green World.- Q Magazine
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With a singular perspective though, Hand Habits are in a lane of their own. [May 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
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It's a powerful record that reconfigures the classic mnid-90s New York sound more skillfully than anyone's done for some time. [Feb 2013, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Common's best album so far, one that proves hip hop can be both smart and mainstream. [Jul 2005, p.114]- Q Magazine
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As giant a leap on from the lo-fi oddness of 2009's Gather, Form & Fly as it was possible to make. [Oct 2011, p.124]- Q Magazine
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To hard-hitting R&B and funk akin to God Foot-era James Brown, Jones can strip paint and soothe with equal aplomb. [Dec. 2011 p. 129]- Q Magazine
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The range of his ambition and the nailed-on vocal performances soar beyond. [Mar 2016, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Startling, shape-shifting music by a band reaching the peak of their powers. [Mar 2013, p.108]- Q Magazine
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The tragedy, once again, is that nothing here approaches greatness. [Mar 2008, p.103]- Q Magazine