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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Cox's great virtue is that he wears his experimentation lightly; though meticulously orchestrated and teeming with digital feints, these songs feel wonderfully spacious and derive an easy-going charm from his hazy vocals and their one-take recording. [Jan 2010, p. 117]- Q Magazine
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It is disorientating, but clocking in at just 26 minutes, this is also a tight, brilliantly breathless dispatch of noise. [Apr 2018, p.116]- Q Magazine
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The result is a success as both an artistic statement and a mea culpa. [Nov 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
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It never tries to blow the house down. Rather, the soloists take turns to dance around each other, creating a supple and mellifluous air. [Sep 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
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Ode To Joy shivers on this ledge between defiance and dissolution. Despite Tweedy's fears, it turns out more Wilco music is exactly what's needed. [Nov 2019, p.117]- Q Magazine
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An exquisitely warm, olde-worlde soup in which to bathe one's auditory senses. [#361, p.116]- Q Magazine
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Their cut-ups... work best when at their most odd. [Jun 2006, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Fans of his early output will continue to wonder why he's forsaken immaculate prog house so completely: those up for the trip, conversely, will just be keen to know where he's headed next. [Dec 2017, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Barbara Barbara is an ideal way for them to restate their currency. Having lain dormant, the creature is alive once more, electrifyingly so.[Apr 2016, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Like so much of his troubled catalogue, it disarms you with its beauty. [Dec 2010, p.124]- Q Magazine
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As intense as music can be, this record may be quiet but it isn't for the faint-hearted. [Mar 2018, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Morby's songs move from the grandiose to hushed confessionals and by the time it ends with Dylan-like O Behold the entire journey feels like a revelation. [Jun 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
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It won't bring down the establishment, but it does light a bonfire under their arses. [Oct 2019, p.113]- Q Magazine
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The way Blumberg expands and contracts the title track four times over the record, or filters a warped background shriek into Silence Breaker, underlines his experimental drives, his desire to push through sound barriers. [Sep 2020, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Occasionally it drifts a little too aimlessly, as if recorded under the dulling influence of Prozac, but when she gets it right, she can be entirely, weirdly riveting. [Jun 2009, p.131]- Q Magazine
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Everything here sounds how Jehnny Beth is meant to sound, making To Love Is To Live a record as masterful as its creator is complicated. [Summer 2020, p.99]- Q Magazine
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It all serve to confirm Cutler as one of contemporary electronica's most gifted and distinctive sonic manipulators. [Aug 2014, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Exhilarating debut album. Its 11 breathless tracks bottle the barely-controlled explosion of energy that masquerades as their live show, then sprays it all out again like cheap lager. [Jul 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
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A beautifully moving, soul-stirring, bravely genre-blurring album. [Oct 2014, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Innovation isn't on the agenda, but thanks to some stomping tunes and Auerbach's oak-smoked vocals, it's another rock-solid enterprise. [Sep 2004, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Jigga may have the edge right now, but on this evidence Nas looks the better bet in the long run. [Mar 2003, p.112]- Q Magazine
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A familiarly kaleidoscopic whirl of retro-futuristic sounds. [May 2005, p.111]- Q Magazine
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While Sing The Delta isn't DeMent's best work, it's full of understated, sharply observed songs. [Jan 2013, p.102]- Q Magazine
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A third-eye dilator to be sure, but surprisingly easy to groove to. [Jul 2009, p.131]- Q Magazine
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The most powerful moments are frequently the most stripped-down, underlying the fact that Feist is surely one of the best singers working today. [Nov. 2011, p. 126]- Q Magazine
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The settings are spacious, the rhythms stately and Stuart Staples croons woozily about how it's all gone horribly wrong.- Q Magazine
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