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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If some of Stornoway's folkier past has been lost in transition, then so be it. Fortunately, the conceptual nods to birdlife on every song from chief songwriter and rained ornithologist Brian Biggs compensate by finding a mainstream-friendly alternative. [May 2014, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Chaotic and raw, it exemplifies the best of US punk rock. [May 2014, p.116]- Q Magazine
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Beady Eye's Different Gear, Still Speeding was always going to be one of the most important records Liam Gallagher would ever make. The gobsmacking reality is that it's also among the best. [March 2011, p. 102]- Q Magazine
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Their second LP contains songs of remarkable quality. [Nov 2018, p.106]- Q Magazine
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The hardest-working slacker in rock goes from strength to strength. [Nov 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
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The album's dark Heart, though, is Forever, a mesmerising 13-minute-epic.... He's developing into one of UK electronica's most distinctive voices. [Dec 2014, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Where the spiraling The Tide is a ringer for his old band, he's at his best when he's playing a velvet-voiced Mephistopheles on A ghost or leading a spectral New Orleans jazz band on through the low-key electronic soundscape of Lockless. [Apr 2020, p.109]- Q Magazine
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A dense, innovative follow-up to Canadian MC Rollie Pemberton's promising 2005 debut. [Apr 2008, p. 112]- Q Magazine
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Cults' combination of mid-'60s girl-group and cusp-of-the-'90s shoegazing is still bewitching but takes a more stripped-down form here, and packs more of a thwack. [Jan 2014, p.120]- Q Magazine
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It's the contrast between lo-fi production and brilliant musicanship that makes Expressions special. [Apr 2010, p.116]- Q Magazine
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More varied stylistically, it offers a powerful reflection of the band's consistently bleak worldview. [May 2014, p.116]- Q Magazine
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An absolute masterclass in thoughtful, emotional songwriting. [Apr 2003, p.104]- Q Magazine
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Fallen street poet gets remixed by rising street urchin. Result: comeback complete. [March 2011]- Q Magazine
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His voice is the one constant, a symbol of defiance against overwhelming forces. [Nov 2018, p.109]- Q Magazine
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With its prowling, piano-led menace and barely contained fury, Extraordinary Machine offers ample confirmation that Apple is far darker than your average singer-songwriter. [Jan 2006, p.126]- Q Magazine
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[The album] works best when vocal-free, telling its story through tone, not text. [Nov 2015, p.111]- Q Magazine
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It's practically impossible not to fall just a little bit in love with both the singer and her beautifully fragile music. [Jul 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Masterful and poignant, it reveals Mason to be a heavyweight talent. [Apr 2007, p.119]- Q Magazine
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However much they conjure up campfire laments, you're rarely more than a few minutes from kick-ass riffs and percussive abandon. [Mar 2017, p.115]- Q Magazine
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Lucky, then she's so musically warm and, like its predecessors, Safe Trip Home takes comfort in a sound that almost masks her unrest. Almost. [Dec 2008, p.127]- Q Magazine
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This follow-up goes the whole hog. ... Frank Ocean's Blonde reportedly influenced the tech-driven songwriting process, but there are echoes, too, of U2 at their more exploratory, and, on the twisty-riffed In Waves, last year's QOTSA album. Olympian. [Jun 2018, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Those raised on the Jayhawks' best Work Tomorrow The Green Grass and Hollywood Town Hall, will still go home satisfied. [Jun 2016, p.112]- Q Magazine
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With A Celebration of Endings, Biffy Clyro prove beyond doubt that they've got the idiosyncratic sewn up. [Sep 2020, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 5, 2020