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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Nothing quite matches that burst of bile ['Crying Blood'], but the title track--choir and all--is heavenly. [Jul 2009, p.118]- Q Magazine
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This career-best seventh album seeps into your head and stays there. [Sep 2014, p.110]- Q Magazine
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To Survive, however, ignites enough fireworks of its own. [July 2008, p.1112]- Q Magazine
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This restless duo have never sounded so much like themselves, and the result is spellbinding. [Oct 2013, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Much of Greatest Hits will be familiar to people who've never heard a Foo Fighters album before: indeed, these are precisely the people it's aimed at. Like all such, Greatest Hits fulfills a function for fans too. [Dec 2009, p.134]- Q Magazine
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Rarely do teenage kicks result in such eloquent, nuanced records as this. [May 2011, p.118]- Q Magazine
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Between The Walls is a fascinating insight into the creative process that crackles electrically between Taylor, John Coxon, Charles Hayward, and Pat Thomas. [Aug 2013, p.93]- Q Magazine
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Hallelujah Anyhow is the sound of a man happy in his own skin. [Nov 2017, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Their third album reins in the sonic restlessness with impressive results, making it easily their most coherent and melodically enjoyable record to date. [Nov 2013, p.105]- Q Magazine
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[Glass's] lyrics are often buried in the mix, but no amount of production occultation can hide the fact that the likes of Plague are excelsior anthems for the End Times. [Jan 2013, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Existential fatigue and self-interrogation--these themes and more are all, somehow, transmitted by her lullaby-soft delivery without ever having their intensity muted. It's a neat trick, and one that Mothers do better than most. [Apr 2016, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Chai specialise in indie-pop confections, but lean in close and you're swept into an anarchic whirlwind. [May 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Here, as elsewhere, Thing of the Past is as educational as it is delightful. [June 2008, p.148]- Q Magazine
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This is Madonna on top of the world, looking down on creation, God complex at cruising attitude. [Summer 2019, p.110]- Q Magazine
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These ate anthemic, headlining songs from a band that is fast becoming one of our finest. [Nov 2017, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Growing confidence as a songwriter, arrangements that push the boundaries of Americana, even an unlikely Captain Beefheart cover make Stranger Me, her third release, extra rewarding. [Aug 2011, p.126]- Q Magazine
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The Ooz can be dark and difficult. But it is also ambitious and delightful, reaffirming the delightful, reaffirming the delicate boundary between beauty and ruin. [Dec 2017, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Inventive and technical, it's death metal with a brain. [Jul 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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[Secret Machines] have pruned back the vast sonic expanses of 2004's full-length debut album, focusing instead on brevity and melody. [Apr 2006, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Here their sound is largely sharpened and polished by their unmistakable anger. [May 2017, p.98]- Q Magazine
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From start to finish, an impressive piece of work. [Jul 2019, p.114]- Q Magazine
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He's not the first person to have exploited the uranium half-life of the '80s but on Confetti's doomy missile-silo clang and the brassy Robert Smith jive of Alchemy And You, he customises it smartly for a newly paranoid generation. [May 2011, p.112]- Q Magazine
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His second album evokes blade Runner's stylish futurism, populating it with Spaceape's paranoid poetry and drowning clean lines in tape crackle. [May 2011, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Grandaddy sound like a lo-fi ELO and, in frontman Jason Lytle, possess an admirably unusual songwriter. Sophtware Slump is more coherent than their 1997 debut Under The Western Freeway, Lytle having settled on a theme: knackered electronics.... Cheap, cheerful and utterly charming.- Q Magazine
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