Q Magazine's Scores
- Music
For 8,545 reviews, this publication has graded:
-
42% higher than the average critic
-
3% same as the average critic
-
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 | |
---|---|---|
Lowest review score: | Gemstones |
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 4,112 out of 8545
-
Mixed: 4,355 out of 8545
-
Negative: 78 out of 8545
8545
music
reviews
- By Date
- By Critic Score
-
- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2019 -
- Critic Score
First Taste is a record exploding with ideas and interesting twists. [Sep 2019, p.109]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
A couple of other tracks veer too close to pastiche, but taken as a whole, this is a rich, brave, eloquent piece of work. [Sep 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
What could've been an album of self-pity is transformed into a record of optimism and hope. [Sep 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
It all ads up to an unlikely, if not unlovable nostalgia trip to a less fraught time. [Sep 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
A mix of '70s art-rock, hipster funk and sleek DeLorean pop. ... Shuman's loss is our gain. [Sep 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Throughout the songs share a similar colour palette, but vary in tone, texture, technique. It's the sound of a band enjoying the discovery of their sound. [Sep 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Turn Off The News captures his talents in full bloom. [Sep 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
All in all, the treatment effectively lights these already great songs from fresh angles, revealing hidden depths and added poignancy to what was already a strikingly powerful set of songs. [Sep 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2019 -
- Critic Score
This splurge of hits and misses is a pure energy infusion. [Aug 2019, p.119]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Fever Dream is a dizzying rush of exuberance and emotion. [Aug 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Perfectly encapsulate what Astronaut Buzz Aldrin described as space's "magnificent desolation." Includes new LP, All Mankind, making it truly indispensable. [Aug 2019, p.119]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 19, 2019 -
- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2019 -
- Critic Score
[The] dub deconstruction of second LP Con Todo El Mundo illustrates the trio's virtuosity at sculpting pleasingly languorous, stripped-down soundscapes. [Aug 2019, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2019 -
- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2019 -
- Critic Score
It's a record that turned out exactly as Hutchison intended. [Aug 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Kokoko! are far more ramshackle affair than Mbongwana's dub-drenched African Funk, with "instruments" all but salvaged from junkyards. The effect is deliriously infectious--Gruff, chanted vocals, wandering basslines and often woozy FX that can render the whole disorientating and dreamlike. [Aug 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2019 -
- Critic Score
The curiously carved music is a perfect frame. Another peak. [Aug 2019, p.115]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Although III doesn't offer anything to rival [2014's Beggin For Thread] in songwriting stakes, it does manage to mine thrills from an adventurous production. [Aug 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2019 -
- Critic Score
This is gold for fans. Worth the £18 for the definitive version of lost classic Lift alone. [Aug 2019, p.119]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Wiggy, long-sought after 1976 LP utilises the trills, parps and hums of the pre-digital modular synthesizer to walk the circuit board between easy listening and ambient weirdness. [Aug 2019, p.119]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2019 -
- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2019 -
- Critic Score
The shock of the new is gone, but they've rediscovered the art of surprise. [Aug 2019, p.111]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
- Critic Score
It struggles to impart much buoyant energy, with individual songs tending to sink into soporific mass of breathy vocals and mellow riffs. [Aug 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Brilliant debut, splicing rock, modern pop and EDM. [Aug 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
- Critic Score
Magician's Success and the Can-does-The-Normal bleep of Backstroke could be missing soundtracks to some experimental Cold War animation. [Aug 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
- Critic Score
There are curveballs along the way--an unexpected bagpipe riff on Hey Ma, for instance--but largely this is a fast, furious record that sounds startlingly vital in these worrisome times. [Aug 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
- Critic Score
I Love You. It's A Fever Dream is hardly cluttered, but it's those little details that really lift his fifth LP as The Tallest Man On Earth. [Aug 2019, p.116]- Q Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2019