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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Midnight Organ Fight more than delivers on its promise: tons of spiky energy, proper tunes and a real lyrical bite to the likes of The Modern Leper. [June 2008, p.149]- Q Magazine
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This mixtape-style collection is more ramshackle than his most celebrated work, but it's still packed wirh inspired funk. [Dec 2008, p.127]- Q Magazine
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Cudi is very much in a world of his own. [Dec 2010, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2010 -
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"I need to rebuild a gang spirit," Morrissey said, and you can hear exactly that quality in the album's best moments. [Mar 2014, p.122]- Q Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2014 -
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Shine is a work of subtlety and hushed intimacy that, at times, barely seems to exist at all. [May 2003, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Once the listener gets beyond the references, Clarietta really hits the mark, with a high strike rate of knockout tunes. [Jun 2013, p.94]- Q Magazine
Posted May 20, 2013 -
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With Kozelek's compelling ache of a voice to the fore, his star deserves to wax anew. [Mar 2004, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Posted Jul 1, 2015 -
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As a collection of songs, this is hugely impressive. As a debut album, its confidence is right up there with Definitely Maybe. [May 2004, p.96]- Q Magazine
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Previously hushed, hymnal recordings are twisted into warming rock'n'roll. [Dec 2005, p.149]- Q Magazine
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A grippingly dramatic latterday-Leonard-Cohen-alike near-masterpiece. [Oct 2014, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2014 -
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Music that sounds completely out of time, made by an often incredible string band. [Sep 2006, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Throughout, The Hum is a thrilling testament to Hookworms' single-mindedness and conviction. [Dec 2014, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2014 -
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Including songs by Neko Case and Nick Cave, this fine album reaches way beyond the church. [Mar 2016, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2016 -
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While the 23-year-old will make more complex music than this, it will be tough to come up with something more fun. [Aug 2008, p.140]- Q Magazine
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His first proper UK release is a treat, at times conjuring the beautiful, stark bleakness of Nick Drake, elsewhere not afraid to crank things up. [Feb 2009, p.119]- Q Magazine
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All this is but a prelude to the albums extaordinary, elegant climax, Bellamy’s three part, 12 minute orchestrial work 'Exogenesis: Symphony.' [Oct 2009, p.102]- Q Magazine
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The mix is full of voices, all snipped up in fragments or rendered as blurred tones. The results lends his exquisite productions a haunting emotional resonance. [#361, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2016 -
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Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned.- Q Magazine
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Voyage, ironically, takes us nowhere we haven't been, but has a blast revisiting Vitalic's favourite haunts. [Feb 2017, p.119]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 6, 2017 -
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Pusha T and Malice are deft wordsmiths who deliver lean, whip-smart couplets. [Mar 2007, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Posted Feb 22, 2017 -
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The Dodos are too uptight to freak-out totally and the clash between slacker lyricism and unpredictable acoustic outbursts lends an intriguingly split personality. [July 2008, p.101]- Q Magazine
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These renditions, however, also stress how undeserved their reputation for tea-and-cakes twee was, using Stuart Murdoch's lyrical sharpness and the radio sessions' rough edges to draw blood. [Jan 2009, p.126]- Q Magazine