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 5.7 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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A wonderful counterpart to his book, and just as special on its own. [Jul 2020, p.110]- Q Magazine
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Halo's score is detailed and meticulous - but far more sombre than her usually playful, exuberant records. [Jun 2020, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Misch's fluid songwriting is still to the fore, as on the title track's loose-limbed shimmy, heightened by an uplifting string arrangement. [Jun 2020, p.102]- Q Magazine
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All of [the songs] exhibit the unique charms of the Chicago singer/songwriter. [Jun 2020, p.99]- Q Magazine
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It's the voice that carries it all: rawer and more rousing by the minute. [Jun 2020, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Paranoid, doomy synths temper the classicism of Christinzio's luxuriant Harry Nilsson songwriting. [Jun 2020, p.94]- Q Magazine
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An atmosphere of heightened weirdness prevails. [Jun 2020, p.95]- Q Magazine
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It's the sound of grand ambition realised. [Jun 2020, p.98]- Q Magazine
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Perspicacious and personal, cool and colossally enjoyable, Sawayama is both a triumph over trauma and a paean to the power of effervescent pop in practically all its forms. [Jun 2020, p.98]- Q Magazine
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You come to see the The Lovely Eggs are an act of fine calibration of noise and sweetness, of intelligence and brutish mettle. [Jun 2020, p.102]- Q Magazine
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An album that dares to tackle life's big questions head on. [Jun 2020, p.101]- Q Magazine
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It's a record of quiet confidence, its brightness dialled down but its impact still fierce. [Jun 2020, p.100]- Q Magazine
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For every screamed verse there's a genuinely soft melody. ... The Garden's uniquely garbage kind of glamour is far better than their clownish antics would suggest. [Jun 2020, p.100]- Q Magazine
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Ward continues to set a standard few other artists can match. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Spidery tendrils of sex-and-drugs-related dread curl around dramatic synth-pop and twinkling R&B, Yet there's also a batch of tracks that draw from bombastic, slightly tacky '80s pop - a warm, funny and wholly welcome diversion from the stylish but sterile bleakness that remains Tesfaye's calling card. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Feels so far behind the curve that it's just rolling gently backwards on roller-skates at this point. ... More edge, it seems, would only burst their bubble. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020 -
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Their music conjures the Sahara via a hypnotic desert blues that informed by both Malian folk music and their love of Western bands such as Pink Floyd and Can. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020 -
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The sonic scope here is far wider, incorporating both industrial and squawking jazz into something that chimes perfectly with uncertain times. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020 -
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It's his sharp, searching lyrics that elevates 3.15.20 to giddying heights. [Jun 2020, p.106]- Q Magazine
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Locked inside Womb is an excellent EP, but stretched out to 10 tracks it can feel predictable. [Jun 2020, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020 -
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There's still vigour in The Orb's ambient house vision. [Jun 2020, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020 -
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At times they meander a little too much, as on the ponderous Fool Thinking Ways, but this is far from the work of beginners. [Jun 2020, p.105]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020 -
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Much of the material here would fit seamlessly on any of their records since 1996's No Code. ... Gigaton is a reminder that Pearl Jam are a band totally comfortable in their own skin. [Jun 2020, p.104]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 7, 2020