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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This album sees the acquisition of a new twin-sticksman rhythm section, which powers Dwyer's ever-progressive tracks to new heights of psychedelic delirium. [Oct 2016, p.110]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2016 -
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Their electro-acoustic psych-soundworld can't disguise crisp earwormers. [Oct 2016, p.109]- 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
Posted Oct 3, 2014 -
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Effectively a double album proving that time hasn't blunted Heaton's lyrical sharpness. [May 2020, p.108]- Q Magazine
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Their anthem-filled fourth album's brazen swagger may prove irresistible. [Nov 2007, p.137]- Q Magazine
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Posted Mar 28, 2019 -
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This is a very welcome return of a singular talent. [Jun 2017, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 13, 2017 -
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Like Boys Outside, Monkey Minds casts Steve Mason as a gifted songwriter, a world-worn bringer of anger, melancholy, hope and melody. [Apr 2013, p.96]- Q Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2013 -
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While the musical backing is occasionally sweeter than it is memeorable, Moss's narrative lyricism saves the day resulting in a rich debut that provokes fresh thoughts with each listen.- Q Magazine
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Part Of The Light finds him in dream-like mode, and though he'll never rival Guy Garvey for loquacity, he's so comfortable in his own skin that To The Sea details a cheery trip to the seaside and his voice soars where it once growled. [Jul 2018, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted May 18, 2018 -
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Platform is always engaged and engaging, the questions it raises never merely academic. [Jun 2015, p.107]- Q Magazine
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The Casadys' knack for sifting vivid, dreamy songs out of harrowing subject matter is no less potent here. [Jun 2013, p.96]- Q Magazine
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Posted May 24, 2013 -
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The flawless record that Yorkston has long promised. [Oct 2014, p.121]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2014 -
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Tucker's inimitable vocals are savage and exhilarating throughout. [Nov 2012, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2012 -
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With their harmonies having never sounded more like perpetual benchmark The Everly brothers, the cantina guitars and dusty, hazy lyrics conjure a world of adobe bars and lazy roof-top jams as the sun dips behind the cactus. [Mar 2017, p.111]- Q Magazine
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This second installment is immaculate, an artful, emotional tour de force that underlines their "American rock's Radiohead" status. [May 2008, p.130]- Q Magazine
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Finn's sonic tricks and references to love gone sour undercut the prettiness and hook the listener in, again and again. [Aug 2008, p.142]- Q Magazine
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It makes for an affecting, beautifully measured, very grown-up affair. [Mar 2012, p.111]- Q Magazine
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As piano and strings crescendo, concluding Pale Green Ghosts' uncommon vistas of seriousness, levity and disco dancing, you can imagine the singer departing in triumph, and anything but an underdog. [Apr 2013, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2013 -
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Dalmais's new album arrives wrapped in conceptual packaging and plays beguiling tricks with her remarkable voice, at times airy, at others earthy. [Aug 2017, p.100]- Q Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2017 -
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While it might not feature too many songs the faithful will be hollering for at gigs, it's crammed full of ear candy. [Jun 2015, p.98]- Q Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2015 -
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Wounded Rhymes is the moment Lykke Liu has edged ahead of the pack. And she still understands the value of a mighty percussive wallop. [Apr 2011, p.100]- Q Magazine
Posted May 2, 2011 -
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It makes for one of the most delicious albums of the year. [Sep 2016, p.113]- Q Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2016 -
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Despite its running time and the magpie-like pilfering, on this amusing and bemusing album Mount never seems remotely in danger of repeating himself--or, for that matter, anybody else. [Oct 2019, p.112]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2019 -
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The result is a success as both an artistic statement and a mea culpa. [Nov 2019, p.108]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2019 -
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Shields is part spiralling indie rock, part wistful '60s pop. [Oct 2012, p.102]- Q Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2012 -
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This second effort even has the edge on 2012's The Light The Dead See, with an extra-dazzling cinematic sweep to its orchestration, a poleaxing depth to its existential sorrows and a fabulously redemptive uplift in the climatic My Sun. [Dec 2015, p.107]- Q Magazine
Posted Oct 27, 2015