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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G Stands For Go-Betweens accords Forster and McLennan their rightful place as the greatest songwriting duo of the post-punk era. [Feb 2015, p.118]- Q Magazine
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Shackles' Gift can sound grandly expansive, yet it's also locked into its own little world, thinking global, acting loco. [Feb 2015, p.117]- Q Magazine
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It's a record that announces its creator as a true force. [Feb 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
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It's a diverting blend of gravity and distraction, but at 17 tracks, it arguably commits that historic rap LP crime of filling all available audio space. [Feb 2015, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 15, 2015 -
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A defiant record from a band who've made a career of doing their own thing: Enter Shikari have upped their game again. [Feb 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 15, 2015 -
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As always, Scott overdoes it--and frequently--but when Modern Blues is good, it's very good indeed. [Feb 2015, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 14, 2015 -
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The melodic charms are epic, the lyrical insights about romantic disappointment universal. [Feb 2015, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 14, 2015 -
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Come On Give Up bottles the album's slacker vibe, but Ratworld is more nuanced than most garage rockers could ever manage. [Feb 2015, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2015 -
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Slurrup follows last summer's Korp Sole Roller and tones down the ornate arrangements for a more straightforward '60s British beat boom approach. The problem is it makes him sound pretty ordinary. [Feb 2015, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2015 -
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At times, effortless winsome... yet it comes with enough textural twitches and scuffs to underline its well-developed sense of wary melancholy. [Feb 2015, p.106]- Q Magazine
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They've deployed four singers, reined in their more cinematic flourishes and gone for a punchier approach. Those four singers inevitably mean a lack of cohesion. [Feb 2015, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2015 -
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It's not quite the perfect wave that was Tame Impala's Lonerism, but it's certainly not far behind. [Feb 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2015 -
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It's quite a feat to produce music that works for the mind and the hips, but Ronson has pulled it off magnificently, with virtually every track sounding like a single. [Feb 2015, p.104]- Q Magazine
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Ghost Culture's self-titled debut often feels like eavesdropping on a late-night confessionary: one where influences such as Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode mastermind Martin Gore and Soulwax are fused into a thundering, fluid whole. [Feb 2015, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Melodic and eccentric, this is a multi-layered beauty. [Feb 2015, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2015 -
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Newcomers may be amazed that a rock band can still feel so vital. Even diehard fans will wonder at the sheer melodic intensity. [Feb 2015, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2015 -
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With the help of Animal Collective produce Ben H Allen, Girls in Peacetime busts the band out of a complacent rut by rendering them in full colour, as a pop group with depth of talent and breadth of vision. [Feb 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
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It's far from perfect, but if this is Exit The Wu-Tang, they can go out with heads held high. [Feb 2015, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2015 -
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At times, it's a touch muted, a little grey-out, but if this is Lennox staring down mortality, he comes out swinging. [Feb 2015, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2015 -
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Refreshingly free of focus-grouped compromises, Sucker is certainly full of character. It's just that the character is a cartoon. [Feb 2015, p.114]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2015 -
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Although recorded at the same time as Mothers, Absent Fathers sounds more cohesive, Earle's vocals stronger, the playing a little more direct. [Feb 2015, p.117]- Q Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2015 -
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If possibly too shiny for some tastes, the spooked '60s folk of Wounded Heart adds a touch of darkness. [Feb 2015, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Posted Dec 19, 2014 -
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It's all very valve, very analogue, and Kongos' morality feel equally antiquated. [Oct 2014, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2014 -
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It's warmth and occasional flashes of wisdom ensure it's a dignified protest at modern life rather than just the mitherings of an old(er) man. [Jan 2015, p.132]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2014 -
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The album's first half is anchored by the hypnotic undertow of Pulls, but the mood intensifies later with RGB's distortion beats and Bird Milk's cocky electro-strut proving Gallear's at his best when sparring against more robust rhythms. [Dec 2014, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2014