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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While predictable mall-rat anthems in praise of partying, one-night stands and nocturnal hi-jinks now come with a cathartic edge, their first album in almost a decade feels frustratingly shallow. [Aug 2012, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012 -
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Bold stuff and proof Shinoda remains a richly talented creative force. [Aug 2012, p.103]- Q Magazine
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The songcraft is so taut that whether this howls, drifts, pummels or floats, it remains utterly engaging. [Aug 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012 -
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Trespassing is magnificent is its competence, but sadly, it doesn't appear to have an actual beating heart in it anywhere. [Aug 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012 -
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If you're it the mood for a trawl through R&B's greatest hits delivered on R. Kelly's own terms, if not always in his own style, that's just how you'll like it. [Aug 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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[Many of] these clean-sounding, jazz-rock rearrangements of songs from 1928 to 1963 prove successful experiments. [Aug 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2012 -
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On this third album the four-piece are now an accomplished if spiky group at home whether playing rough-edged guitars or glockenspiels. [Aug 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2012 -
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Hologram's monotone new wave reeks of a school band rehearsal, released into the wild before its time and without its signature song. [Aug 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2012 -
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Good Morning to the Night is a truly remarkable record, one that will repay your deep and repeated listening tenfold. [Aug 2012, p.99]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2012 -
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A worthy and wonderful addition to [their] cannon. [Aug 2012, p.98]- Q Magazine
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Carved Into Stone revisits their sludge-prog-industrial metal roots with impressively honed and effective results. [Jun 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2012 -
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It's big and clever; also bloody brilliant. [Aug 2012, p.98]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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What raises Big Station above the ordinary is the ease with which Escovedo explores his place in the world, whether through love's hard fought redemption or life's barrel-scraping moments. [Aug 2012, p.97]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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It's the amped-up riff in the middle of Offspring Are Blank that best sums up their playful approach. They often flex their muscles without feeling the need to land a killer blow. [Aug 2012, p.97]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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The key track is We Can't Have Nice Things, envisaged by its writer as a George Jones lost love ballad, an turned into a gripping country soul psychodrama. [Aug 2012, p.96]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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While it's not exactly beach music, his ear for uplifting harmonies as on So Lucky's lens-flared sonic rapture and Hand Over Hand's ecstatic evocation of bucolic landscapes, means the songs never fail to glow. [Aug 2012, p.95]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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That [metal] grind is almost gone from Mutt in favor of a more mellowed mainstream sound, but his storytelling style has become razor sharp. [Aug 2012, p.95]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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There's a lot going in here, but it's delivered with an effortless charm that trusts listeners to pay due attention in their own sweet time. So far, so swimmingly. [Aug 2012, p.94]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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What is surprising is just how chief songwriter Oliver Ackermann shapes their face-melting shoegaze into something altogether more sophisticated. [Aug 2012, p.94]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2012 -
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It's when the rappers stand down that it hits its stride. [Jun 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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Atmospheric, soulful and cohesive, with beats as strong as rhymes. [Jun 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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Brown's vivid storytelling skills bear testament to a major talent. [Jun 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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As the final stitch in their sprawling psychedelic tapestry ... Universe is a perfectly haphazard send-off. [Jun 2012, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2012 -
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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
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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How, exactly, do you follow an album like Loveless? It's a question that pop has yet to answer. [Jun 2012, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Posted Jun 22, 2012