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 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 A Hero's Death
Lowest review score: 0 Gemstones
Score distribution:
8545 music reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For this stunning first offering South London producer Derwin Panda connects organic harmonies of Noah Lennox's Panda Bear project with Four Tet's dizzying cut-ups. [Nov 2010, p.109]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thrilling and vital sounding stuff. [May 2019, p.111]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the explosion in Diamandis's songwriting that's most noticeable here. [May 2015, p.107]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's with the good-foot funk of Save Me and slow-lane soul of Hold On that Williams's vision really pulls into focus. [Aug 2020, p.113]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 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]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His fifth and final Streets album turns into his best since "A Grand Don't Come For Free." [Feb 2011, p.123]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, Grace's gift of melody is only surpassed by her candid lyricism. [Oct 2016, p.105]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Invite The Light reaffirms that Dam-Funk needn't coast on others' charisma when his music has more than enough of its own. [Oct 2015, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On his strongest album yet, Jackson Jr deconstructs the back catalogue of comedian/musician Rudy Ray Moore, star of blaxploitation movie Dolemite. [Sep 2012, p.106]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This LP shows fierce songwriting strength. [Feb 2020, p.108]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Steele may be in thrall to [Brian] Wilson and The Beatles, but his talent is precocious enough to give him his own very singluar voice. [Aug 2006, p.112]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boundless and ecstatic, this is house music at its very best. [Dec. 2001 p. 126]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is an album that balances intellectual importance with the simple pleasures if great melodies played on meaty guitars. [Feb 2008, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Occasionally Hawkline veers off the rails, but his overall cryptic psyche surrenders its charms easily. [Jul 2017, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a lot going on, but Welch never confuses breadth with depth. [Aug 2009, p.98]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A bewitching, urgent, magical debut. [May 2012, p.103]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've re-emerged, stronger, more focused and full of headspinning ideas. [May 2012, p.106]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Circle Without Having To Curve is a billowing transmission from some gigantic sullen hulk. Elsewhere texture, hiss and layered voices head into abstraction, but if you think he's afraid of revealing himself, the voice and guitar reprise Contain (Cedar Version) ends the album with a sweet re-entry to the daylight. [Aug 2016, p.110]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Compelling and masterful. [Sep 2020, p.113]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Zeroes QC bristles with ideas, assimilating elements of Krautrock, electronica and post-punk to dazzling effect. [Feb 2011, p.124]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A wonderful album. [Jun 2012, p.104]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are guitars, but they are rarely central. The beat-driven tracks veer towards the arty, white boy-with-beatbox line of Talking Heads and The Clash. [May 2003, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The broader palette suits him. [Nov 2017, p.107]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When it works, it's a glorious thing. [Sep 2012, p.108]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The real stars... are Lewis's songs. [Feb 2006, p.103]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fantastic voyage. [May 2007, p.128]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 17 loose, grungy guitar-led songs here ... sound full of renewed energy. [May 2012, p.103]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turn Off The News captures his talents in full bloom. [Sep 2019, p.115]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Face Stabber finds him in cosmic wigout mode, double majoring in late-'60s psychedelia and early-'70s Krautrock. [Sep 2019, p.115]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall this is a record that's as thrillingly dark and overwhelming as anything they've attempted to date. [Oct 2015, p.117]
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