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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Energy levels stay firmly in the red throughout and, perhaps, unsurprisingly given the subject matter, it sounds as though the pair had enormous fun in making it. [May 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Attempts to keep one foot in the streets and another in the mainstream, and largely succeeds. [May 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Kwaito beats and highlife guitars mesh with hip hop and dubstep, while love songs crash into mordant political satire. [May 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
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He's re-engaged the formula of sweet, James Taylor-ish vocals, lyrical inoffensiveness... and a laid-back Jack Johnson-like musicality where 5/6 embraces cruise ship reggae. [May 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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Heartbreaking Bravery's pop sensibilities take Moonface out of his bizarre world and into a place much more accessible. [May 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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In upbeat mode, he's made of stirring stuff, but the real wonder here is to be found when he drops a gear into hushed beauty and sun-dappled loveliness. [May 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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There is a prevailing, bleary charm in its warmest moments - Eveningness, White Galactic One - that make Lockett's latest well worth investing in. [May 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
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The problem is that when they do attempt something different [as on some parts of this album] things go horribly wrong. [May 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
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The uninitiated may find the unrelenting nerve-soothing a little too much like anaesthesia. [May 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Each of the 10 songs are beautifully simple, sounding like they've been passed down in a Welsh oral tradition from generations long forgotten. [May 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Feels like reconnecting with a well-loved school friend on Facebook and finding that he's barely changed his clothes, let alone his ideas: a pleasure but not quite a thrill. [May 2012, p.100]- Q Magazine
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While it's less draining than some of his earlier work, it still speaks the language of lamentation. [May 2012, p.99]- Q Magazine
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Even the album's most compelling moments... aren't strong enough to save it. [May 2012, p.98]- Q Magazine
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Evans the Death manage to make humdrum, everyday existence sound quite magical. [May 2012, p.96]- Q Magazine
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[Locked Down] offers a vivid reminder as to why his myth has endured for so long. No one else comes close to sounding like this. [May 2012, p.96]- Q Magazine
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The arch, sometimes claustrophobic Macaroni demonstrates Conn's muso-like command of often juxtaposed genres. [May 2012, p.95]- Q Magazine
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It's 10 years since MHS were hailed as the next big thing, and with this album MacIntyre may finally repay those hopes. [Feb 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 19, 2012 -
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She's made an album that deserves to linger in the limelight--passionate, powerful and possessed of real star quality. [Feb 2012, p.98]- Q Magazine
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Joyously propulsive... [Yet] there's little deviation from a straightforward palette of sticky basslines and boom-bap rhythms. [May 2012, p.95]- Q Magazine
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If anything the sisters take too traditional an approach, and where their live shows are freewheeling and fun, Tell Tales sounds mannered and prim. [May 2012, p.95]- Q Magazine
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Ultimately, Iradelphic never really amounts to more than the sum of its parts. [May 2012, p.94]- Q Magazine
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