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
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    An impressive set. [May 2007, p.123]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another beautifully scored Divine Comedy album that sounds a bit like Scott Walker and a lot like the last one. [May 2004, p.102]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's real, it's challenging, and at times even funny. [Apr 2005, p.126]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another of Cooder's worthy experiments. [Apr 2007, p.117]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is complex, dense music that yields a little more with each play. [May 2003, p.106]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This isn't anything like a Best Of, but there remains plenty of enjoyment in these spacey oddities. [Sep 2006, p.118]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [Curator Paul] Morley's selection is generally spot on, but those who already own 1998's more concise retrospective Endless Love won't need this. [Dec 2006, p.150]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    So intimate and sad you can almost see the candles flickering. [Mar 2004, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Even on a daft live album, he refuses to coast. [May 2004, p.106]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full of melancholy instrumentals rich in strings and percussive weirdness. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [It] is the stirring, rounded collection leader Glen Hansard has hinted at since they formed in 1990. [Feb 2007, p.99]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If the songwriting isn't quite up to the standard of 1992's high-water mark It's A Shame About Ray, The Lemonheads marks a welcome return. [Oct 2006, p.122]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's nothing radically different on offer, but fans will take heart from the sound of a band re-energised. [Mar 2007, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An impressively thoughtful album. [Oct 2003, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This unassuming record certainly deserves as much attention as [his] former big noise. [Sep 2005, p.116]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Son
    The results are enticingly hypnotic and reassuringly unhinged in places. [Jun 2006, p.117]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She has never sounded brighter or more infectious. [Nov 2003, p.117]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Glows with retro colour. [Jul 2004, p.110]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She recalls the emotionally raw folk of... Kristin Hersh. [Sep 2004, p.118]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The usual blend of knockabout punk rock, nutty-boy ska and witty lyrics. [Jul 2003, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Three's still something fresh about Stereolab's brand of trippy space pop. [Mar 2004, p.112]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's heavy-duty stuff, and all the better for it. [Mar 2007, p.115]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An absorbing, exuberant flourish of outwardly incompatible genres. [Apr 2005, p.122]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though Matmos are undoubtedly the Willie Wonkas of ear candy, just occasionally The Civil War gets too anal. [Oct 2003, p.109]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [Her] voice [is] as clear as a Great Smoky Mountain stream. [Aug 2005, p.127]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Comes on like an in-your-face Avalanches, with elements of Pavement-style art-rock and a punk attitude thrown in for good measure. [Nov 2005, p.127]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A massively inventive debut. [Feb 2005, p.104]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Works on the age-old theory that if it ain't broke, don't fix it--and it is all the better for it. [Jul 2005, p.120]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rap rarely comes more unedited and spontaneous. [Oct 2006, p.125]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Successfully bring[s] new features to familiar territory. [Jul 2005, p.115]
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