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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Three tracks in you realise with horror that [it] is a concept album. Worse, it's a concept album of kitchen-sink dramas about Tony The Milkman and Doris The Housewife set to Saint Etienne's dated indie disco. [Jul 2005, p.120]- Q Magazine
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A hideous mess of electro noodling and maddeningly obtuse, tuneless vocals. [May 2006, p.126]- Q Magazine
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Where once Of Montreal sparkled, they're now mired in a plodding, asexual beige. [Nov 2013, p.113]- Q Magazine
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Suffers from the same faults as previous efforts: limp tunes, pompous guitar solos and an overhwlming sense of "Will this do?" [Sep 2003, p.98]- Q Magazine
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While the maverick spirit that drives this pair is admirable, it doesn't make the end result any more enjoyable. [Apr 2008, p.102]- Q Magazine
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It's one boringly pedestrian plod after another. [Jun 2012, p.104]- Q Magazine
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There's a sense that he's trying to pass off a lack of ability as some kind of artistic statement. [Aug 2009, p.113]- Q Magazine
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The feel is of youngish bucks cruelly taunting their 64-year-old granny. [Nov 2004, p.127]- Q Magazine
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A moribund collection of ragged but never rugged songs. [Jan 2004, p.114]- Q Magazine
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Children moan, accordions groan and Bjork's disembodied voice occasionally growls into earshot. [Sep 2005, p.114]- Q Magazine
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So migraine-inducing that the Crazy Frog would seem like light relief. [May 2006, p.129]- Q Magazine
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Duets guns unerringly for lounge-y stasis, swerving any trace of the funk, grit or bile which make Morrison such a unique treasure.... Criminal. [May 2015, p.108]- Q Magazine
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California Hymn pulls something out of the hat at the end, but Anyway.... is so addled and confused it will likely be in the bin long before then. A real shocker. [Sep 2016, p.111]- Q Magazine
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The Unforgiving's rampaging orchestral stabs and hysterical synths, coupled with Sharon den Adel's fevered vocal flourishes, make for awful Euro-pop with the odd distorted guitar. [May 2011, p.115]- Q Magazine
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With each mid-tempo riff swamped by syrupy harmonies and machine-tooled strings, this is metal with the edges filed down and all the soul sucked out. [May 2006, p.128]- Q Magazine
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Half-written, overproduced songs collide with grandiose ideas, and the self-indulgence is astonishing as sounds and samples appear with little grace. [Aug 2004, p.116]- Q Magazine
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A willfully dumb concoction of crotch-grabbing Southern rock workouts and boneheaded strip-joint anthems. [Dec 2007, p.121]- Q Magazine
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This debut has her trilling like Mariah Carey on fluffy R&B tunes. [Oct 2003, p.103]- Q Magazine
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[They] continue precisely where they left off on 2002's Static Delusions..., bashing their way through 11 indistinguishable songs without recourse to wit, style or tune. [Jul 2004, p.112]- Q Magazine
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Singer Jay Gordon spends much of the record predictably preening his way through third-hand Bowie and third-rate Simon LeBon impressions while the band labour on a set of half-baked electro-metal...- Q Magazine
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The actual effect... is closer to a whinier Duran Duran, with even their slapped bass-driven grooves hobbled by the paper-thin production. [Apr 2005, p.124]- Q Magazine
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