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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Recommended to any rap fan suffering from bling fatigue. [May 2004, p.110]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Subtle, suggestive songs. [May 2005, p.117]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reaffirms her gift for big hooks and wry lyrics. [May 2003, p.100]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The result is somewhere between a Badly Drawn Boy and a strung-out Paul McCartney. [Dec 2004, p.135]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strangely addictive. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The sound of a maverick band raging against the dying of the light. [Dec 2006, p.132]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's the simple beauty that overwhelms here. [Sep 2003, p.98]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Engaging stuff. [Apr 2006, p.118]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Perfect rainy day music. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imaginative. [May 2004, p.101]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strong and melodic, atmospheric and creative... a powerful work. [Oct 2004, p.120]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They might have a shelf life shorter than a pint of milk but, with a good tune underpinning each over-egged slice of rock pudding, are all the more thrilling for it. [Aug 2003, p.104]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A perfeclty poised, richly textured set of light-footed psychedelic pop. [Sep 2003, p.101]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An odd mix, but a perfect setting for George's intoxicatingly sweet voice. [Apr 2007, p.117]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sees WK adding a little more classic rock sensibility to his high-energy party metal. [Oct 2003, p.100]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clocks in at less than 30 minutes, but you still feel you've been somewhere when it finishes. [Oct 2005, p.115]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crackles with the cocky, hormonal exuberance of youth: it's a profoundly teenage album. [Aug 2005, p.126]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their best since '95's Electr-O-Pura. [Oct 2006, p.127]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's not much in the way of light relief. [Apr 2007, p.118]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Where once they clanged, Neubaten now purr, the pervading mood of restrained grandeur, leavened with itchy, almost pop touches. [Apr 2004, p.110]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's startlingly spirited stuff. [Aug 2003, p.116]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A shadowy affair, overflowing with fractured breaks, amoebic bass and emotive, medieval chords. [Nov 2003, p.120]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Almost entirely instrumental, but full of a subtlety often obscured by words. [Jul 2005, p.114]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Beguiling, high-density productions. [Apr 2006, p.119]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A red letter day for fans of classic songwriting. [Aug 2005, p.132]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a truly haunting record populated by ghosts. [May 2005, p.116]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At times slightly overdone, but on the whole enormous fun. [Jul 2003, p.111]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A commanding debut. [Jun 2005, p.113]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Well crafted, easy-on-the-ear janglepop which chugs along in a jaunty fashion. [Mar 2006, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The good news is Songs For Christmas isn't the self-indulgent folly it may appear. [Jan 2007, p.152]
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