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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Ash & Ice isn't really a reinvention but it does triumph as a bold restatement of just what makes The Kills unique. [#361, p.109]- Q Magazine
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We Are Not Your Kind marks a supremely confident reassertion of their capacity to pulverise. [Sep 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
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May not be their most ambitious album, but it's one of their finest. [July 2011, p. 113]- Q Magazine
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If this really is a farewell, Bright Eyes is at least going out with an apocalyptic bang. [March 2011, p. 100]- Q Magazine
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It's uniformly good, apart from Bob Mould's new house direction, which gets laughs for all the wrong reasons. [Jan 2004, p.124]- Q Magazine
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This is a thrash of real poise: precise, inventive and recklessly fast when necessary. [Nov. 2011, p. 135]- Q Magazine
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At times, it teeters between nostalgia and self-parody. .... But you can forgive the odd-slip-up, because the whole thing sounds so joyous. [Mar 2018, p.115]- Q Magazine
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Melodic and eccentric, this is a multi-layered beauty. [Feb 2015, p.106]- Q Magazine
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[A] wonderful album of covers showcasing his mastery of pianistic romance, witticism and flourish. [#361, p.116]- Q Magazine
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When it stumbles it can dissolve into musical Esperanto. But when the balance is right--as on Everybody's nod to original diversity icons Sly And The Family Stone--Depayse makes for scintillating listening. [Aug 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
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Even though Nagalo Ni Piny Odag opens their second album in "traditional" style, all chirping percussion and Nyamungu's stringy twang, the tracks which follows cut across genre with winning flair. [Jun 2013, p.103]- Q Magazine
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Second album confirms sonic wizard's wizardry. [March 2011, p. 116]- Q Magazine
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You wonder how many guitar bands in the interim have matched the standard set here. [Jun 2012, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Their debut is a giant leap in the right direction. [Jul 2011, p.118]- Q Magazine
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This is a starkly beautiful suite of music by a band who--after two decades--just keeping growing in stature. [Oct 2018, p.115]- Q Magazine
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The result is an album that balances sophistication with a satisfying pop sense, and emotional heft with a lightness of touch. [Oct 2018, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Big, major-chord jams and subtly political messages abound. [Nov 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
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It was the album that cleared the way for them to become one of the '90s biggest bands. Country Feedback is still one of their best songs, a plaintive, alt-country ballad that allowed Michael Stipe's voice to shine. [Dec 2016, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Hayward drums like h e needs your attention right now, Moore plays like an apocalypse, and it's all loud, snappy and catchy as hell. [Jan 2018, p.109]- Q Magazine
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A raucous, irresistibly melodic collection of songs that ring with indignant, apathy-infused joie de vivre. [Feb 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2019 -
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These 11 songs are unashamedly informed by her maternal role in its varying facets of joy, growth, complexity and, on the self-explanatory So Tired, exhausting labour. But it also ranges more wildly. [Mar 2018, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Ephyra sees them merge their blissful tendencies with the chutzpah and restless creativity of '80s new wave, mixing in retro-futurist synths, mannered vocals, disco beats and erudite lyricism. [Apr 2019, p.118]- Q Magazine
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A powerhouse of big riffed rock 'n' roll drenched in '70s sunshine. [Sep 2012, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Anyone who's ever loved a record by Midlake or the Fleet Foxes should investigate immediately. [#361, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Stepping outside of their natural environment ensured their longevity in the '90s, stepping back in seems to have given them a fresh boost. For all Zooropa and Pop's pushing of the envelope, limiting themselves to rock's core ingredients has given the band a new challenge. Certainly, not since The Joshua Tree have U2 sounded so like U2 but, with songs of this startling calibre, right now being U2 is no bad thing.- Q Magazine
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