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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The 23-year-old Nashville resident's keening voice can drag you in with either the acoustic intimacy of 22, which resembles the stark folk of Father John Misty, or the electrified rock of Ramona. [Mar 2013, p.95]- Q Magazine
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Fans of Real Estate in particular, will be in ecstasy. [Jun 2016, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Eating Us has a more cohesive sound than its lo-fi predecessor, but still radioates weird and wonderful vibrations. [Jul 2009, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Coy, genail and funny... a potent antidote to the usual chill-out porridge. [#184, p.140]- Q Magazine
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Personal but detached, fizzling but restrained, it's indie-pop with a brain and a soul. [Sep 2017, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Happiness may remain an elusive quality in AIC's music, but variety is not. Be it the acoustic parts in Fly or elegant a cappella vocals of Maybe, they juggle power and poignancy like masters. [Sep 2018, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 23, 2018 -
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Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]- Q Magazine
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With its shoebox percussion and no-budget production, Sleeper is a work of desolate, cracked genius. [Sep 2013, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Goddess is a while world to get lost in and it looks like Banks is a star just waiting to happen. [Oct 2014, p.104]- Q Magazine
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Casually unique and an unbounded joy to listen to, it's the quintessential Baxter Dury album. [Nov 2017, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2017 -
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Nicholas Drain Lowe, now 62, remains sweetly lethal with a tune. [Oct 2011, p.124]- Q Magazine
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While these tracks have definitely been soaked in the dour euphoria that The Cure specialise in, The Twilight Sad are very much their own band. [Feb 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
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They manage to pack such a powerful emotional punch across these 10 tracks. [Feb 2019, p.117]- Q Magazine
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It's Hynde who steals the show with her lip-curling vibrato, part Elvis, part Dusty, never more intoxicating than on the seductive 'Almost Perfect.' [Jul 2009, p.129]- Q Magazine
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There's stark simplicity to Tonra's lyrics that's evocative enough to consistently land emotional haymakers. `[Apr 2013, p.99]- Q Magazine
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She avoids excessive sugariness via edgy, sensual lyrics and Timbaland's superlative production. [June 2002, p.123]- Q Magazine
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This one's a colorful addition to Smith's rambling canon. [Sep 2017, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2017 -
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There's a sense of make or break here, but it's clear what they deserve. [Sep 2013, p.109]- Q Magazine
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There's a real and sinewy loveliness to these compositions. [Jan 2018, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2017 -
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Uneven as it may be, Black America Again is a stirring reminder of the Chicago MC's relevance. [Feb 2017, p.113]- Q Magazine
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It's his sharp, searching lyrics that elevates 3.15.20 to giddying heights. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Memphis soul is tapped by JTE ... the regret and pain of his songs harking back to the days when drugs had him thrown out of his father's band. [May 2012, p.91]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 13, 2012 -
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[Locked Down] offers a vivid reminder as to why his myth has endured for so long. No one else comes close to sounding like this. [May 2012, p.96]- Q Magazine
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Butler's spacey sing-song tones skip across the muddy off-kilter beats, forging a sound that is both immediate and moreish. [Aug 2017, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2017