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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Selway is a songwriter still new to the task and yet already leaning in toward middle age, and the perspective he brings to writing adult rock music is both fresh and contemplatively knowing. [Nov 2014, p.117]- Q Magazine
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There isn't a weak link amongst these 12 enormously impressive songs. [Nov 2014, p.117]- Q Magazine
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Peaking Lights have sacrificed some of their uniqueness for added lovability. But their hypno-pop still sways to a rhythm entirely of its own. [Nov 2014, p.116]- Q Magazine
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There are a couple of mildly sludgy moments.... But otherwise, it's a perfectly calibrated record. [Nov 2014, p.113]- Q Magazine
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It's fortunate that the warmly accessible Way Out Weather, which showcases his melodious, improvising guitar, exists in less esoteric numbers [than his limited released vinyl albums]. [Nov 2014, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Willfully meandering yes, but it's an enjoyable shambolic ride that bottles early Pink Floyd, Skip Spence's cracked psych-folk and the ragged majesty of the Stones' own magnum opus. [Nov 2014, p.111]- Q Magazine
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The model can work successfully--There IS Nothing Left recalls a sunnier, more sugary take on '80s Cure, for example--but elsewhere songs would benefit from editing. [Nov 2014, p.111]- Q Magazine
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His voice remains charming, devilish-yet-wise, and his delivery as beguiling as ever. [Nov 2014, p.109]- Q Magazine
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Carr retains enough left-field eccentricities, such as the Casiotone keyboard of I Don't Think I'll Make It, to make The Breaks a true indie-rock gem. [Nov 2014, p.108]- Q Magazine
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The sound of him working with a lean combo is so refreshing, and a welcome first in his mammoth catalogue. [Nov 2014, p.107]- Q Magazine
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Art Official Age, regrettably, is something we have heard before: an overlong, pan-generic concept album. [Nov 2014, p.107]- Q Magazine
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As ever, you end up feeling there's method somewhere in his madness. [Nov 2014, p.104]- Q Magazine
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This beautiful, open-hearted album explores every one of its title's implications, wrapping both the blessed and the lost in its generous embrace. [Nov 2014, p.105]- Q Magazine
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Playland is better than its predecessor in pretty much every respect. The songs are better, the palette broader and there's a genuine sense of Marr hitting his stride as a solo artist. [Nov 2014, p.103]- Q Magazine
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It's a strange and beautiful album, one that's hard to turn away from. [Nov 2014, p.102]- Q Magazine
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Some veteran rock stars write a memoir in order to make sense of their origins; Bono has chosen to sing one. From this autobiographical precision all the album's strengths flow. [Nov 2014, p.100]- Q Magazine
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It's a record that ups the style further but their slick, modern metal still lacks depth. [Oct 2014, p.115]- Q Magazine
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US singer Grey Reverend lends a bluesy warmth to Silent Fall's heavyweight electro, but Swedish vocalist Cornelia Dahlgren sounds merely decorative on the Massive Attack-like Vivid. [Oct 2014, p.107]- Q Magazine
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A nagging sense of coming late to chillwave's super-saturated afterparty. [Oct 2014, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Anyone who wants a bold new direction from Jeff Tweedy may find Sukierae disappointing. [Oct 2014, p.120]- Q Magazine
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Everything here feels like a Xerox of something that's been done before.[Oct 2014, p.102]- Q Magazine
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An irresistibly fun-packed career high. [Sep 2014, p.114]- Q Magazine
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With some judicious skipping of tracks this is another eminently listenable set. [Oct 2014, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2014