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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This is an album which manages the rare trick of being accessible and head-warpingly barmy both at the same time. [Nov 2002, p.96]- Q Magazine
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Sadly, bra-burning rhetoric and gospel warbling make poor substitutes for addictive songs, and nothing here rivals her previous best, Genie In A Bottle. [Jan 2003, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Only the relatively jolly Escape Song is worth excavating from the morass. [Nov 2002, p.97]- Q Magazine
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Why didn't they just call it Supernatural II and have done with it? [Dec 2002, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Finisterre distills their Mellotrons, strummed guitars and electronic beats to a fine essence. [Oct 2002, p.114]- Q Magazine
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The drab orchestrations offer tepid schmaltz, not romance. [Dec 2002, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Some rubbishy funk aside, Robinson sounds more energised than he has in ages. [Nov 2002, p.113]- Q Magazine
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While One By One starts like the best Foo Fighters album ever it doesn't deliver track-upon-track. [Nov 2002, p.110]- Q Magazine
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The odd portentous lapse and minor clunker aside, the rate of killer lines is remarkably high. [Mar 2002, p.115]- Q Magazine
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It's claustrophobic, neurotic and occasionally nightmarish. [Jan 2003, p.119]- Q Magazine
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Without a single piece of filler here, this is the musical equivalent of meeting a stranger you feel you've known all your life. [Nov 2001, p.128]- Q Magazine
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No longer ahead of his time, he has a deft enough touch to keep irrelevance at bay. [Jan 2003, p.120]- Q Magazine
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A fantastically overwrought and indulgent yet also controlled exercise in emotive guitar rock. [Nov 2002, p.103]- Q Magazine
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More summery than a sombrero and probably just as unfashionable. [Sep 2003, p.112]- Q Magazine
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It's great, with well-judged strings and horns giving full rein to some marvellously acute lyrics.... A glorious return. [Oct 2002, p.117]- Q Magazine
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The results, while respectfully chocolate box pretty, make Enya seem like a bomb-making radical. [Nov 2002, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Like Moon Safari-era Air, unleashes shimmering, cinematic musical waves that gently wash over you but eventually suck you in entirely. [Nov 2002, p.113]- Q Magazine
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By the half-hour's end you might well consider strangling the singer but, by that time, these tunes will have launched their own potent psychological counterblast. [Apr 2003, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Adds a touch of wistfulness to his usually slurred vocals. [Nov 2002, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Bounce is the sound of a group who know what they're good at and why. [Nov 2002, p.97]- Q Magazine
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Admittedly, her FM-friendly singalongs aren't rocket science, just fantastically effective. [May 2003, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Despite the odd bump Sexsmith could be in business at last. [Dec 2002, p.111]- Q Magazine