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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What makes those sounds compelling here are Ingersoll's buttery rhymes and an ability to zero in on your rhythmic G-spots. [May 2014, p.113]- Q Magazine
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His originality peaked in '74, but for groovy, tuneful pizazz, Wings Of Love takes it even higher. [Jun 2013, p.115]- 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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McClure says he's regressed to the catchy rock essentials after years spent experimenting: smart move. [Jan 2017, p.104]- Q Magazine
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2 Bears have hit a rich seam of easy-going melancholic euphoria. [Oct 2014, p.101]- Q Magazine
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It could be horribly contrived, yet Bird has the rare touch to make it sound as natural as breathing. [May 2007, p.125]- Q Magazine
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The Aliens' album often has the wide-eyed beauty of Brian Wilson or Jonathan Richman. [Apr 2007, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Free from any external pressure to conform, Hebden has managed to make a wholly uncompromising record that remains compulsive from start to finish. [Dec 2013, p.115]- Q Magazine
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There's scarcely a moment here that doesn't light a fire. [May 2017, p.100]- Q Magazine
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The result is the album Roots Manuva has always threatened to make; approachable yet with real substance. [Oct. 2010, p. 113]- Q Magazine
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[Linden's] breathy vocals elevate these warm, enveloping songs to a richer level. [Feb 2014, p.116]- Q Magazine
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With shards of melody poking through the noise, the overall effect is often stunning. [Nov 2008, p.117]- Q Magazine
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PROTO sometimes hews close to well-worn dystopian tropes, and the child narrator and see-sawing breath sounds of Extreme Love are undeniably annoying. But Herndon's creative restlessness and textural mastery sustain interest across 45 minutes. [Jul 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Get Well Soon is a starkly beautiful record that mines the sounds of the last four decades of Americana. [May 2011, p.126]- Q Magazine
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Don't believe a word of it; this mediation on aging has moments as filthy as anything from his X-rated past. [Jun 2011, p.125]- 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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[There's] a raw, anxious quality reminiscent of '80s US cult favourites Violent Femmes. [May 2004, p.104]- Q Magazine
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There's the humanist warmth and simple joy that you hear in The Beach Boys or The Flaming Lips at their best. [Nov 2002, p.114]- Q Magazine
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This 11 track-LP is bursting with energy and invention. [Jun 2012, p.99]- Q Magazine
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Tongue-in-cheek though this often is, the self-indulgence is never at the expense of the music. [Jul 2014, p.114]- 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
Posted Sep 30, 2019 -
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These are songs that do indeed seem to move through another era, from the delightful mournful I Can't Listen To Gene Clark Anymore to the pulse of Roy Orbison beneath Lover Release Me and Dream Dream Big In The Sky. [Nov 2018, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2018 -
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A beautifully moving, soul-stirring, bravely genre-blurring album. [Oct 2014, p.111]- Q Magazine
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