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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reviews
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Posted Feb 21, 2012 -
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Confirms her as the most compelling new pop star around: half doomed romantic, half mordant cynic, with a distinctively conflicted vision of how love, fame and America work. [Mar 2012, p.94]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 21, 2012 -
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Some of the greatest countrified orchestral pop this side of the randy old goats' [Gainsbourg and Hazlewood] heydays. [Feb 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2012 -
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Posted Feb 16, 2012 -
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All over the place, he takes you along for an engaging ride. [Feb 2012, p.97]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2012 -
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Essentially, it's post rock without the waiting around - all the songs here are straight arrowed and straight-forward, but never predictable. [Oct 2011, p. 125]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2012 -
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Strikes the right balance between rock ballast and frayed pop beauty. [Sep 2011, p. 101]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2012 -
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The group struts through an early brace of crackling tunes.... Unfortunately though, the album's second half slips - bar the swirling psychedelia of Sioux - into more indistinguishable indie-rock territory. [Oct 2011, p.123]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2012 -
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It's transporting enough to leave haunting echoes all its own. [Sep 2011, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2012 -
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A career-spanning, alternative "best of." [Feb 2012, p.101]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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Though wildly hit and miss, Keep Your Dream, is never more fun than when going completely over the top. [Feb 2012, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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MU.ZZ.LE is more crackly, lo-fi trip-hop, like something beamed in from another planet. [Feb 2012, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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It's very much a period piece, but a very enjoyable one at that. [Feb 2012, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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Resolution is a furious and unrelenting broadside of searing riffs and invention. [Feb 2012, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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With elements of Afrobeat, house and indie rock, E Volo Love is an assured affair, [Feb 2012, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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The gloomy beats prove best suited to Pusha's own sinister drawl. [Feb 2012, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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Their infectious electro-funk certainly has a new hedonistic swagger. [Feb 2012, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2012 -
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Conjures up a haunting, almost mythical American landscape of lost highways and endless skies. [Dec 2011, p.137]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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Smart, anthemic and often desperately moving. [Dec 2011, p.137]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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An album that's consistently mind-melting and often brilliant. [Feb 2012, p. 106]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2012 -
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Margo Timmins gives haunting, basilisk voice to the songs ... even familiar listeners will be intrigued. [Dec 2011, p. 125]- Q Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2012 -
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Replacing buoyant guitars and boy-girl dilemmas with dark themes of religion, parenthood and death, this [album] is a bridge to grittier material, albeit that with a glittering pop-rock handrail. [Nov 2011, p. 143]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012 -
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There's all the usual yarn-spinning and nerdy wit here, but ... there's also a warmth and wisdom that no amount of lo-fi goofing can disguise. [Nov 2011, p. 135]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012 -
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It starts promisingly ... but 43 minutes of joyless hectoring becomes an endurance test. [Feb 2012, 110]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012 -
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If there had been a disco episode of Star Trek, then Phenomenal Handclap Band would have provided the go-to floor-fillers. [Feb 2012, p. 109]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012 -
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Her debut LP is a Story Book Forest of weird instruments and enticing sounds. [Feb 2012, p. 108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012 -
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Together [Mt Sims] and Leila forge a suitably avant-garde partnership ... conjuring up a febrile, vital rush of looped, monotone vocals, buzzing electronics and fractured beats. [Feb 2012, p. 107]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012 -
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Errors have always been technically thrilling, but [this album] sees the four-piece imbue their machine-like synth and riff soundscapes with a new-found warmth.[Feb 2012, p. 104]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 30, 2012