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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Both inspiring and inspired, Godfather completes Wiley's reclamation of self brilliantly. [Mar 2017, p.110]- Q Magazine
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It's this urgently speculative spirit ["Is it human to ask for more?"] that make Adore Life a compulsive and substantial thrill. [Feb 2016, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Each song is like a little journal entry, lent emotional heft by Ashworth's use of repetition. [Apr 2019, p.114]- Q Magazine
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For every moment of immaculate pop, there's a moment of strangeness. [Jun 2018, p.116]- Q Magazine
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His latest spin-off project sees Steele's musical wanderlust pay dividends. [Mar 2009, p.98]- Q Magazine
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Wolf Alice is fiendishly difficult to pin down, bu they're full of inspired ideas rather than lacking direction. [Jun 2015, p.115]- Q Magazine
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A delightfully different gang of fuzzy funk rapscallions. A solution worth soluting. [Jun 2010, p.118]- Q Magazine
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Director's Cut succeeds, however, by axing the star cameos and thrusting some of her most powerful songs back into the spotlight. [Jun 2011, p.115]- Q Magazine
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Ultimately, the accord reached between Mark Ronson and the quartet is that there's nothing wrong with the Black Lips formula; merely that their exuberance sometimes needs a calming hand on the shoulder. [July 2011, p. 115]- Q Magazine
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Hardcore sounds defiantly re-energised, like a band starting over. [Mar 2011, p.112]- Q Magazine
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There's a real elegance, even a joy, to the way he mixes his dark materials. [Nov 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
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The Walkmen are inching closer to the mainstream, while remaining utterly distinctive. [Jul 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
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By eerie last track 80 Ondula, all moody Vangelis synths and bad-acid vibes, there comes the realisation it's actually the sinister undertone that lurks beneath all Jenkinson's esoteric soundscapes which makes them so compelling. [Mar 2020, p.122]- Q Magazine
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It's stunning stuff. The bar for the next Grizzly Bear album, already high after Veckatimist, is raised another notch. [Nov. 2011, p. 128]- Q Magazine
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ChesnuTT's thrilling unorthodoxy remains in off-kilter arrangements and strange details. [Dec 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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It's an excellent album born out of modern dread. He's in his element. [Aug 2019, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Butler's spacey sing-song tones skip across the muddy off-kilter beats, forging a sound that is both immediate and moreish. [Aug 2017, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Bristol duo mix up hugely potent psychedelic brew. [March 2011, p. 109]- Q Magazine
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His personal universe may be smaller, but here Tom Vek opens himself up to a wider world. [Aug 2014, p.114]- Q Magazine
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That's The Spirit will make them mainstream stars, no question. [Nov 2015, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2015 -
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The overall effect is not dissimilar to a less arch Rufus Wainwright, although the quality of songs does tail off slightly toward the end. [Jul 2012, p.113]- Q Magazine
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This enthralling, enigmatic statement conjures a mood that's all its own. [May 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 13, 2015 -
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An album that manages to pile on fresh, innovative production without drowning out the frequently spectacular songwriting. [May 2014, p.118]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2014 -
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It would be easy for Exiled to come across as a lame pastiche. That it's quite the opposite is testament to the quality of the songs--most notably C.S.A.M.'s anti-imperialism tirade and Brave New Church's attack on facism's resurgence--and the ferocious delivery. [Aug 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019