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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At a time when Fatboy Slim has gone chill-out, Orbital have gone noodly, and Underworld, nd Prodigy seem to have just gone somewhere else, Basement Jaxx are, happily, on hand with another brilliantly messy blueprint for UK dance music - and dance music that you can actually dance to, at that.- Q Magazine
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This is top-notch stuff that draws comparisons with Neil Young and Father John Misty. [Jul 2017, p.114]- Q Magazine
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At its best you're reminded of Yorke's eminent skill: a fluency in dark, otherworldly romance that makes the alien sound familiar. [Dec 2018, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Extremely inventive, a litttle uptight and slightly high on their own cleverness, Vampire Weekend are the musical equivalent of a Wes Anderson movie. [Mar 2008, p.109]- Q Magazine
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The sheer musical scope means Vagabon resembles a shifting mood piece, tied together not by generic tropes but its creator's singular sensibility. [Jan 2020, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Elbow have hardly stepped out of their comfort zone here, but then their comfort zone has always been oddly unsettling. They're still burning: slowly, maybe, but stronger than ever. [Apr 2008, p.114]- Q Magazine
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The result is another emphatic celebration of Malian musicianship. [Feb 2014, p.111]- Q Magazine
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A splendid blast of pop art--with the accent on tunes and outrageous fun. [Jun 2015, p.110]- Q Magazine
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On his masterful second album, the choirboy-turned-beat-maker beds down in this uneasy state, lacing opulent production with minor-key anxiety. [Jul 2018, p.111]- Q Magazine
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This is gold for fans. Worth the £18 for the definitive version of lost classic Lift alone. [Aug 2019, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Headphones and a quiet room are essential for capturing the full depth, but the payoff is a sound-world of uncanny resonance. [Dec 2019, p.106]- Q Magazine
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At its core On Sunset is the sound of someone genuinely excited about all the glorious possibilities the world of music has to offer. [Jul 2020, p.96]- Q Magazine
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Make Way For Love is a brooding and soulful offering from an artist keen to burst expectations. [Apr 2018, p.116]- Q Magazine
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Play With Fire is the perfect length: straight in and straight out, leaving you wondering just where that knife wound came from. [Sep 2020, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Some tracks are more outre than others... but throughout his sustained, idiosyncratic vision is absorbing. [Dec. 2001 p. 123]- Q Magazine
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As piano and strings crescendo, concluding Pale Green Ghosts' uncommon vistas of seriousness, levity and disco dancing, you can imagine the singer departing in triumph, and anything but an underdog. [Apr 2013, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Mortality hangs heavy over this music, but Collins, ultimately, makes it deathless. [Jan 2017, p.107]- Q Magazine
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This is a great album first, and a great Christmas album second. [Feb 2017, p.115]- Q Magazine
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There's too little oomph to suggest they'll bother the scorers. [Jul 2017, p.114]- Q Magazine
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It's a raucous, righteous performance, one that underscores IDLES' current status as Britain's most vital band. [Feb 2020, p.112]- Q Magazine
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What could so easily be just another folky Americana album is lifted high above the norm by the sheer strength of Porterfield's quite brilliant songwriting. [Aug 2013, p.96]- Q Magazine
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For all the finely crafted, impeccably produced numbers there are enough stripped-back torch song moments to remind us of the simple power of Wainwright's talent. [Aug 2020, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Tracks such as the blistering hardcore of Cathouse and Cafeteria Food are the sort of exhilarating rock'n'roll songs that could kick start your year. [Mar 2013, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Beautiful stuff: sunny with a sad undertow, like The Beach Boys, Beck and The Beatles put in a blender. [Nov 2003, p.110]- Q Magazine
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It's all linked by a sense of dignity, wisely chosen collaborators and David Hidalgo's voice. [Aug 2004, p.115]- Q Magazine
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A rich quilt of Americana, as if the folk, country and rock strands were brought together in a starlit saloon somewhere near the border. [Jun 2003, p.106]- Q Magazine