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
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Aside from the cavernous 'Tension' mosty of the tracks here are disappointingly interchangeable. [Nov 2009, p.114]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's that sense of doing just enough but no more that permeates this album, at times rendering it laid back to the point of disengaged.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Twista's overshadowed by West, but with jacked-up soul tunes such as Overnight Celebrity the result, who cares?
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They make a noise disquietingly similar to The Dandy Warhols, only without the wit or the tunes. [Apr 2003, p.114]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Compelling stuff. [Jun 2011, p.120]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Harmless fluff. [Nov 2008, p.114]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An ambitious and surprisingly accomplished album. [May 2004, p.104]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At only 37 minutes long, it never outstays its welcome. [May 2013, p.99]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In stepping out of their comfort zone and trading in their previous identity, it seems Travis haven't yet decided who or what they now want to be. [Oct 2008, p.144]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Their self-indulgent scrawl is writ so large it would be impossibly cloying when if it were all as good. Which it isn't, not by a long shot. [Jan 2016, p.109]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a definite vim here; all they need to do now is to add in a little more of their own DNA. [Apr 2014, p.119]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He remains, ultimately, doom-laden. [Nov 2004, p.125]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The absence of a monstrous lead track, though, suggests the appeal will remain selective. [Apr 2011, p.110]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There is talent here. If only it could've been matched to a few more original ideas. [Aug 2012, p.105]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Guerolito's songs dissolve in an anonymous stream of chugging electro and dub effects. [Feb 2006, p.101]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An album that should have seen Flynn take a step closer to Messrs Marling and Mumford has, sadly, been moulded into a bit of a snoozefest. [Nov 2013, p.102]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Drifts past pleasantly enough, but fails to make an impact. [Feb. 2012, p.101]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bipolar Texan tunesmith Daniel Johnston will never be more than an acquired taste. [Dec 2009, p. 126]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    At first it's almost intriguing, then alienating, then irritating; ultimately you're reminded why you never really listened to Animal Collective until they discovered the joys of a good tune. [Sep 2012, p.100]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is kitsch charm throughout. [Nov 2014, p.112]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    'Midnight's' gut-wrenching sight of an ex not leaving a party alone is a case in point, but any of one of these 10 tracks is equally illuustrative. [Mar 2009, p.93]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A daydream of a record, one well worth drifting off into. [Aug 2012, p.115]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's less direct than before, but still strangely, powerfully beautiful. [Jan 2013, p.103]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You can hear where the money went, even if her voice is far from the soaring force of yore. [Nov 2009, p.114]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Acceptable but never stellar. [Dec 2003, p.121]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Less fixatedly house-centric than before, I'm Leaving incorporates fuzzy dance-rock under the influence of girl groups and New Order. [Jul 2013, p.106]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Neil Arthur] is still in strong voice, his spare, pop-savvy synths tracks are a fitting canvas for his absurdist, trenchant narratives. [Apr 2015, p.97]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Clinic] has misplaced the groove and settled for a rut. [Sep 2004, p.117]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This slick set taps the same pop bounce of 2004's "Calling Out."
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    White Women has all the depth and staying power of a Christmas cracker joke. [Jun 2014, p.106]
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