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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Vigorous and wise, this is dance music for grown-ups, with Cook keenly aware that any number of spritely garage and trance chancers have stepped in while he's been away making babies. Rather than match them in the disco stakes, he's re-grouped and drawn on previously concealed depths instead.- Q Magazine
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Same Emotions, meanwhile, sounds like a lovingly recreated homage to the soft rock of Journey, Toto, et al. Best of all is his deeply personal tribute to the late Jason Molina. [Aug 2014, p.113]- Q Magazine
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A trash-conscious blend of craft and humour gives them the sass, style and balls to sound like no one else around. [Mar 2004, p.111]- Q Magazine
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While rough and a little patchy, it's a cracking debut nonetheless. [Aug 2003, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Intriguing abandoned avenues and sketches towards masterpieces. [Nov 2018, p.115]- Q Magazine
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A calmer work than its harrowing semi-classic prequel, Blinking Lights... is also less startling or focussed. [May 2005, p.109]- Q Magazine
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This sumptuous riddle of a record is a celebration of everything but normality. [Oct 2014, p.100]- Q Magazine
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It's a stunningly assured, deeply romantic and already one of the year's best. [Dec 2018, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Frontman Brian Fallon serves up a mostly restrained and as a result more resonant set as an opening salvo for The Horrible Crowes. [Oct 2011, p.123]- Q Magazine
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The result is persuasive, likable grown-up pop without that off-putting jazz-hands factor. [Nov 2012, p.99]- Q Magazine
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Pushes the DBT envelope a little further and for a band whose catalogue boasts more double-albums than single ones--at 43 minutes it's extra punchy, and fully fit for impeachment-fuelling purpose. [Mar 2020, p.117]- Q Magazine
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They make modern life's drain and strain exhilarating. [Mar 2020, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Seeds is not 1000 per cent their best work, but it's not far off. [Dec 2014, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Its riveting, yarn-spinning intimacy enhanced by the singer's dry patter. [Feb 2014, p.113]- Q Magazine
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They are gorgeous recordings, never over-polished but bringing out the bright force of Staples's guitar and the grainy sweetness of his voice. [Apr 2015, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Yak shoot from the hip with an impetuous first-timers' racket that's rarely short of breathtaking. [Jul 2016, p.113]- Q Magazine
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While tracks such as This Day Is A Loaf could be straight out of an album by Stevens himself, it's when the band stretches out, on the gentle but unsettling Hosanna In The Forest, that they really excel. [Apr 2011, p.101]- Q Magazine
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This is guitar music at its most acerbic and romantic. [Aug 2017, p.110]- Q Magazine
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It's a hugely entertaining album. A musical travelogue whose breadth of styles fits the vast nation it eulogises. [Summer 2018, p.107]- Q Magazine
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The giddy result of years spent twisting and caressing orchestras of samples into a living, breathing organic whole, There Is Love In you brims with a playful sense of wonder, never more so than on centerpiece This Unfolds. [Feb 2010, p. 109]- Q Magazine
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Another slug of moonshine and a rootsy rock from the Georgia sextet. [March 2011, p. 108]- Q Magazine
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Their second album has much to recommend it. For the most part, songs fizz by succinctly. [Aug 2015, p.106]- Q Magazine
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This is Black's strongest set of songs since 1994's second solo selection, Teenager Of The Year, largely because the trademark wit and weirdness is back.- 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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Two Wounded Birds are an exotic rarity; a band that performs pastiche without sounding anything other than utterly authentic. [Jul 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2012