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
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    #1
    The future of pop? Only if you've read too many fashion magazines. [June 2002, p.111]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Emphathetic, female-friendly and always one step removed from the Nashville machine, Carpenter brought a welcome touch of class to country music in the early '90s. Though she's nowhere near the force of yore, those same attributes shine through on The Age of Miracles. [Jun 2010, p.132]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The mood is too heavy for far too long, but some good songs and more cohesive, melodic structures augur well for this damaged daughter's future. [Sep 2001, p.115]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He tackles unexpected covers to pleasing effect. [Mar 2002, p.120]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The music is let down by clunky lyrics. [Feb 2011]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Even its most unlistenable moments command attention with a ferocity that most musicians get nowhere near. [Mar 2004, p.98]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As ever, his lyrics are oblique yet thought-provoking, if sometimes unwieldy. [Sep 2012, p.112]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The slower numbers dawdle. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    La Futura is better when ZZ Top and producer Rick Rubin mess with the formula. [Nov 2012, p.112]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The tales of love, loss, life and death on his 14th album are embellished with brass flourishes for the first time, which only adds to the sense of drama. [Nov 2012, p.102]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He's getting more interesting with each release. [Sept. 2010, p. 116]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    936
    Your tolerance for extended jams will be tested but it's a varied and mesmerizing trip nonetheless. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's nothing essential here, but there's nothing to dislike either. [Apr 2008, p.115]
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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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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's like a broken radio stuck between frequencies, at once disorienting, woozy and supremely psychedelic. [Nov 2010, p.112]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They sound like a band expanding their horizons with success. [Mar 2012, p. 100]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's nowhere McCartney hasn't been before, yet it's still richer and more varied than he's been in years. [Jan 2009, p.116]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While mostly perfectly acceptable as individual songs, the 13 tracks don't really stack up as an album, not one that gets close to his best anyway. [Mar 2009, p.94]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dos
    The quartet's unhurried groove-based approach makes for a captivating listen. [Jun 2009, p.134]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Only really worth investigating if you already own everything by the constituents' day-job acts. [Aug 2009, p.109]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For the most part, the duo's fourth full-length curbs their indulgent tendencies. [Jun 2011, p.114]
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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Osaka pop-punk veterans release their 17th record. [Aug. 2011, p. 126]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a seductive, deliberately synthesized feel that's part Scissor Sisters, part Hall & Oates. [Feb 2006, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Jimmy's Show is filled with richly melodic songs, filled with whimsical lyrics about tea, sailors, table tennis and Ford Escorts. [Nov 2012, p.102]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Steel-plated national treasures hit the epic button. [Sept. 2010, p. 117]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is a n intriguing mini epic of double-drummed grooves and skronking noise. [Jan 2015, p.131]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The duo deliver traditional virtues and a familiar Yuletide ambiance here. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vodka & Ayahuasca is a potent brew. [Mar 2012, p.100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The first few tracks feel like a positive transformation into sharper songcraft, but when New Moon latter half descends to the noisemongery of yore, right down to Freaky's flat-out Dinosaur Jr.-ism, one does have to ask: will the real Men please stand up? [Apr 2013, p.107]
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