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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Meteora is less an artistic endeavour than an exercise in target marketing. [May 2003, p.104]- Q Magazine
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Idlewild have added a new "dirty bomb" to their armoury: the emotional resonance of prime Morrissey/Marr. [Aug 2002, p.128]- Q Magazine
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A limited vocalist,... he's a far better pianist and arranger. [May 2003, p.104]- Q Magazine
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Where the big boys tick and twitch, Longwave merely plod. [Mar 2003, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Sounds a lot like a world-weary J Mascis fronting Teenage Fanclub. [Mar 2003, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Us bristles with huge choruses and idiosyncratic lyrics, albeit suggesting that Pet Sounds is his record collection. [Apr 2003, p.111]- Q Magazine
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The most successful synthesis of their prog-tinged ambitions so far. [Apr 2003, p.102]- Q Magazine
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A rich quilt of Americana, as if the folk, country and rock strands were brought together in a starlit saloon somewhere near the border. [Jun 2003, p.106]- Q Magazine
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They're talented then, but also lucky that the strength of the decent songs outweighs the inclusion of the odd rough sketch, a studio jam, and an outright Chas & Dave-style stinker. [Dec 2002, p.103]- Q Magazine
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A fine album, offering quality tunes, if not clever punches. [May 2003, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Poignant and sincere, this is a Bill Callahan we could do with more of. [Jun 2003, p.104]- Q Magazine
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Log 22... finds them in familiar ground, each song dipped in its trademark melancholy no matter how frenzied the guitars get. [Jul 2003, p.100]- Q Magazine
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A rhythmic assurance helps Muggs navigate the flabby portentousness that has hampered Massive Attack of late. [Apr 2003, p.113]- Q Magazine
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The album's middle section is an exercise in restrained songcraft. [Mar 2003, p.114]- Q Magazine
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This is complex, dense music that yields a little more with each play. [May 2003, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Attempts to obscure the paucity of decent songs with endless guitar wittering. [Apr 2003, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Gone are most of the Beck-ish hip hop stylings, back is the bespoke indiecraft of spidery guitars, loose drums and oblique lyricism. [Mar 2003, p.108]- Q Magazine
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He sings with surprising forthrightness yet these 10 electronic daydreams are not songs in any conventional sense. [May 2003, p.100]- Q Magazine
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A melange of preposterously angular guitar exercises, accomplished balladry and portentous doggerel. [Mar 2003, p.111]- Q Magazine
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Catastrophically, she's given up her trademark fruity sex rhymes, which leaves just mundane braggadocio and an unhealthy obsession with her ex-lover, Notorious BIG. [May 2003, p.109]- Q Magazine