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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It shows the music, too, is undergoing rapid evolution. [Jan 2012, p.123]- Q Magazine
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London's electronic wunderkind explores just about every other avenue in post rave dance music. [jam 2012, p.123]- Q Magazine
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Dan Mangan here serves up the welcome alternative [to other alt-folkies.] [Jan 2012, p.123]- Q Magazine
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This is an electrifying collection of electronic music with heart and soul as well as dancefloor throbs. [Jan 2012, p.1222]- Q Magazine
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The duo deliver traditional virtues and a familiar Yuletide ambiance here. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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Your tolerance for extended jams will be tested but it's a varied and mesmerizing trip nonetheless. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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Basically, it's a Megadeth album; no more, no less, no change. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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[It has] abundant warmth, melodiousness and spontaneity--and fewer full-tilt stylistic shifts than earlier records. [Jan 2012, p.127]- Q Magazine
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It's packed with clever songwriting, wry observations and occasional Leonard Cohen-esque dark foreboding. [Jan 2012, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Attention Deficit Domination goes straight for the doom-rock jugular. [Jan 2012, p.120]- Q Magazine
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An admirable tribute if frequently deafened by the echo of its tragic catalyst. [Jan 2012, p.121]- Q Magazine
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As a kind of '90s bedsit atmosphere plug-in, it works perfectly. [Jan 2012, p.124]- Q Magazine
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Simply crazed speedcore played over actual cattle auctions. [Jan. 2012, p. 120]- Q Magazine
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The highlights are outweighed by tracks such as Glitter Gold Year, a half-formed sketch of jabbing bass and meandering riffs. [Jan. 2012 p. 120]- Q Magazine
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This is unvarnished rock, primal and exhilarating, songs groaning with their abundance of great hooks, suggesting that El Camino may well prove to be the pair's definitive records. [Jan. 2012 p. 116]- Q Magazine
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A series of shiveringly atmospheric compositions that will appeal to fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.[Jan. 2012 p. 119]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 21, 2011 -
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Oldham has been so far ahead of the folksy Americana pack for so long that it now sounds like he's even caught up with himself. [Jan. 2012 p. 119]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 21, 2011 -
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The songs are embedded with reflection and romance... This is how Christmas records are really done. [Jan. 2012 p. 118]- Q Magazine
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Ultimately Smile is a case of what might have been, and after all this time that's probably only to be expected. [Dec. 2011 p. 140]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
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Disc five means you can now hear it in its aborted "quadrophonic" surround sound mix. [Dec. 2011 p. 145]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
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This reissue underlines how much Achtung Baby's high-wire triumph owed to an era in flux and it's as excessive as it needs to be. [Dec. 2011 p. 138]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
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This debut collection of lo-fi chillwave-esque electronics and introspective song fragments locates itself deftly between Animal Collective's strung-out post-rock and the drum machine-powered sketches of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.[Dec. 2011 p. 137]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
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Anyone able to go to sleep without checking the wardrobe for monsters is unlikely to find much of interest here. [Dec. 2011 p. 137]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011