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
    • 70 Critic Score
    Think Mogwai at their loudest or a less willfully awkward Godspeed You! Black Emperor. [Apr 2007, p.118]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's... plenty for the merely curious to enjoy. [Aug 2005, p.142]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The pair are so full of ideas, there's scarcely a dull moment. [Apr 2007, p.119]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Such is the man's zest and pinballing musical imagination that it's hard not to be wildly entertained. [Mar 2007, p.115]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A record of jerky, twilit, hard-edged electro.... But for all its experiment and inconsistency, Black Cherry is still a thoroughly likeable album. [May 2003, p.101]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's a bolder choice of material.... Her playing has loosened up too. [Jun 2004, p.100]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A familiarly kaleidoscopic whirl of retro-futuristic sounds. [May 2005, p.111]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fusing strange, arresting rhythms with gothic atmospheres, these surprisingly modern-sounding soundscapes should earn Korn a deserved second wind. [Jan 2006, p.127]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A heroic performance. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What on paper might sound like a recipe for disaster in fact turns into a triumph. [Jan 2006, p.125]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's all wilfully haphazard, though the fact that they never sound like they're taking things too seriously happily dispels the whiff of pretension. [Sep 2006, p.110]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Above all else, [it] once again underlines Dylan's singularly magnificent gifts as a songwriter. [Apr 2007, p.121]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [Smith's] curiously magical songwriting skills... remain undimmed by time and drink. [Nov 2005, p.124]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another complex, atmospheric set. [Apr 2004, p.120]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Secret Migration shows a group in complete control of their cosmic idiom, familiar by now yet still seductive. [Jan 2005, p.120]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though the results are less homemade-sounding than their debut, a mood of playful experimentation is evident throughout. [Feb 2007, p.99]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Despite Our Differences bustles with invention, righteous anger and the typically sunshine harmonies. [Apr 2007, p.120]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A screw is definitely loose somwhere, but so what? [Oct 2004, p.128]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An engagingly quirky rock record. [Oct 2003, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A most pleasant surprise. [Jul 2005, p.122]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Out of step with the modern world. [Sep 2006, p.108]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An admirably muscular and direct effort. [Jan 2007, p.145]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sounds like a recently awakened Aphex Twin in warm snooze mode. [Oct 2004, p.133]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A sprightly collection of provocative pop. [Jan 2004, p.122]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rock's response is to ease off the hip hop and get back to the '70s, and it works. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With genre-hopping abandon he enlists Spanish guitars, jazz bass, reggae horns, rock drums and disco synths, relentlessly asserting that commercial viability and imagination don't have to be mutually exclusive. [May 2005, p.112]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A winning mix of melody and melancholy. [Aug 2006, p.111]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [An] album of considerable grace and poise. [Apr 2005, p.116]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reveals a keen mind at work. [Nov 2005, p.123]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mostly the results are pleasingly wry and wise. [Sep 2005, p.118]
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