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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Some tracks are more outre than others... but throughout his sustained, idiosyncratic vision is absorbing. [Dec. 2001 p. 123]- Q Magazine
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Getting close to these chilly, inscrutable songs is like trying to hug statuary, but their marbled beauty is impressive all the same. [Dec. 2011 p. 123]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 15, 2011 -
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By packing 21 tracks onto a half-hour running time, he never gets stuck too long in one grove. [Sep 2011, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2011 -
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It's his intermittent, embarrassing rapping [that is the problem]. [Oct 2011, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2011 -
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At 14 tracks long, it could have done with some editing: there are too many soggy R&B diversions. [Oct 2011, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Occasionally it's so insane that you can't help but be swept along with it. Mostly, however, it's so over the top the more likely reaction is to run it off and make sure you don't hear it again in a hurry. [Dec. 2011 p. 122]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 13, 2011 -
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Ceremonials is quite some achievement: an accomplished pop record infused with intelligence and imagination... It offers the final, conclusive evidence that she's a pop star to believe in. [Dec. 2011 p. 118]- Q Magazine
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Posted Dec 8, 2011 -
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There's preciousness here, but so what? Craftmen out to care. [Sep 2011, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2011 -
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His music might be expertly crafted in a bland, jazzy kind of way, but ... it still ends up being mainly about him. [Nov. 2011, p. 149]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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Occasional voyages into proggy oddness (Future Crimes)bring some esoteric intrigue to their indie insouciance, but, ultimately, this band wants you to have as much fun as they so clearly are. [Nov. 2011, p. 143]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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All told, this is a mind-blowing and powerfully emotional album, however you (or she) want to label it. [Nov. 2011, p. 143]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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This world music/indie rock mix is countered by the affecting melancholy of their quieter moments. [Nov. 2011, p. 143]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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Suffice to say, the issues addressed here are as big as the music. [Nov. 2011, p. 142]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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Their vampiric draining of the past cleverly becomes an energizing indie infusion. [Nov. 2011, p. 142]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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Lonely, Dear offers another helping of sweet melancholy on Hall Music. [Nov. 2011, p. 142]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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Punching way above her 20 years, like a wild child Loretta Lynn, it's the sort of country music that belongs in those dives where they've got chicken wire to stop the flying glass. [Nov. 2011, p. 142]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011 -
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It's all pleasant enough, but sadly, there's too little here to set the pulse racing. [Nov. 2011, p. 140]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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While it's impossible to shrug off the feeling they've been here before, [Inside The Ships] remains involving. [Nov. 2011, p. 140]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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Having already been feted by everyone from Thom Yorke to Mark Ronson, this second album arrives with an infectious gait that's nigh-impossible to resist. [Nov. 2011, p. 140]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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If last year's Spanish El Turista was Josh Rouse embracing his new European home with a vengeance, this time around he's deployed his resources with more subtlety and made a better record. [Nov. 2011, p. 140]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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While Josh Davis has valiantly refused to photocopy his pioneering 1996 debut Endtroducing, this fourth album could use its mystery and cohesion. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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Scintilli slowly builds an all-absorbing world, [with] tension between fear and beauty. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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This latest offering from former Hare Krishna disciples Taraka and Nimai Larson finds the Brooklyn-based sisters in typically mind-altering mood. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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If Pajama Club resembles anything, it's a Neil Finn solo album, although Dead Leg and Can't Put It Down Until It Ends are as well-crafted as anything he's offered since Crowded House's pomp. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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This follow up to Psychic Chasms displays similarly exhilarating aural ambitions. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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The third album from James Morrison isn't the musical enlightenment that its title suggests, but rather another sturdy, if predictable, collection of soul-tinged, Radio-2 friendly pop tunes. [Nov. 2011, p. 139]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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Toronto outfit, The Weekend, have been hailed as one of the most exciting new sounds in modern R&B -- hype that, on the basis of this equally startling follow-up, seems entirely justified. [Nov. 2011, p. 138]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011 -
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Here, at last again, is the Ryan Adams of Heartbreaker - creating a uniformly strong collection of songs, singular in mood, each articulated by a voice that, whilst more lived in, remains a lovely instrument. [Nov. 2011, p. 137]- Q Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2011