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
8545
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reviews
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Brun's incredible voice - direct and moving - is at the centre of everything. [Jun 2012, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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The melancholic croon of frontman Will Daunt, a man who sounds as if he's caressing a broken heart rather than nursing it, give these ever-so-now songs an old-world charisma. [Jun 2012, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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Wonky vocals and a lack of guile strangle the project, not least on Efflictim, where a terminal aimlessness befits the melodramatic-teen lyric[s]. [Jun 2012, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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[Lead singer, Corrina] Repp's spectral omnipresence enhances A Monument's addictive, dark-clouded atmosphere, especially when things get as chilly as later-day Radiohead and as pallid as Portishead. [Jun 2012, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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Footwork newcomers might want to test their stamina with one of Planet Mu's excellent Bangs & works compilations first. [Jun 2012, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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The sulky formula which established them, however, like the seismic chords of Control or the crunching Battle In Me, proves the efficacy of this recycled Garbage. [Jun 2012, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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The Temper Trap are touched by the brilliance of Dougy Mandagi, a vocalist with a set of pipes so extraordinary he could emote a Twitter feed. [Jun 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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Unpatterns continues the left-wards drift [toward minimalism] with no vocals except the ghostly sampled ones and a musical palate of textured house and electric funk. [Jun 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
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It's bold, brassy and way more ebullient than a 75-year-old has any business sounding. [Jun 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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Storm Corrosion deserve to reach a wider audience than their CV, record collections - or suspect band name- would imply. [Jun 2012, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2012 -
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The San Francisco band plum for a gleaming Bright Lights, Big City sound that instead evokes visions of Crockett and Tubbs. [Jun 2012, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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Their first album since 2009's Broken, gains strength from being all Gahan, all the time. [Jun 2012, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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There are moments when their balance is perfect and the Fleetwood Mac tumble of Feel It Coming Near or the parting-mists of the title track keep their undoubted talents in sharp focus. [Jun 2012, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Make-Believe is a record you're more likely to respectfully admire than fall hopelessly in love with. [Jun 2012, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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It's not ground breaking, but its commitment to creating an authentically deranged vibe could see your fringe grow an inch with every song. [Jun 2012, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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It clatters past in little over an hour, lean and propulsive despite its sprawling, scattershot nature. [Jun 2012, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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One for rainy afternoons, or a bottle of red in the small hours. [Jun 2012, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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Posted Jun 21, 2012 -
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Q's energetic, exuberant delivery is frames by some impressive and varied production throughout. [Jun 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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It's the vocals of Jana Hunter, an apprentice of freak folk luminary Devendra Banhart, that provides Nootropics' bewitching focal point, the group's gothic meld of gliding guitars and spectral synth noises resembling the Cocteau Twins on a comedown. [Jun 2012, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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While he's not breaking any boundaries, when Moore keeps the tempo up.... he's as good as any other would-be Moroder, even if the title track's lyrics and FM swagger owes as much to US soft rock behemoths Foreigner as it does to Studio 54. [Jun 2012, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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Even utterly dedicated Albarn fans will be hard-pushed to force themselves to play it more than once. [Jun 2012, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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Cutler's surgically meticulous programming skills and ear for mesmeric melodies.... elevate this follow up to 2010's Emerald Fantasy Tracks above simple ['90's techno] homage. [Jun 2012, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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It makes you feel like you've stepped into a funhouse built by Picasso out of neon light and awesomeness. [Jun 2012, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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Rather kite-flying itself, Kweller prides shooting the breeze over true direction, but there are enough emotional gusts here to ensure he regularly soars. [Jun 2012, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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At times, strangely purging - and almost euphoric - most of MMXII still sounds like the end of civilisation as we know it. [Jun 2012, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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Strangeland isn't much of a diversion from their fame-bringing formula. [Jun 2012, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012 -
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This follow-up sees them up the ante slightly. one Man Army is packed with big songs, windswept harmonies, swashbuckling choruses, and less appealingly, big guitar solos when all you wanted was a key change. [Jun 2012, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 20, 2012