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
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the orchestral pop of Red Rover, Red Rover and the others that sweep the album along. [Apr 2013, p.113]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the way Margo Timmins' distinctive, kohl-eyed delivery melts into Notes Falling Slow's funereal throb that remains the band's USP. [Jul 2004, p.113]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Crow still rocks. [Apr 2002, p.111]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A brisk, varied and entertaining little package. [Oct 2002, p.126]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs Of Experience will likely go down as a late-career classic. [Jan 2018, p.104]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's still on the dancefloor showstoppers--No Enemiesz, Giant In My Heart--that she really comes alive. [Jan 2015, p.127]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If you dance easily at weddings then this album is very good news. [Aug 2005, p.129]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is an album you need to be enveloped by--the louder it is, the better it sounds. [Jun 2016, p.115]
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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the very real emotional core that save Straight No Chaser from being just a slickly anonymous pop confection. [Nov 2009, p.100]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Stereo Total] have neither the songs nor the art to make their electro-doodlings anything more than an exercise in narcissistic cool. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A lack of sonic variety and a mild sense of deja vu won't help to advance his cause. [Aug 2014, p.110]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Halcyon haze from Californian flute-toters. [Sept. 2011, p. 110]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If it's not an easy introduction to Mascis's work, for the converted it's a treat. [Jul 2012, p.102]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Over two discs, the schtick loses it flashpan charm. In bursts, though, there's much that impresses. [Oct 2014, p.120]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lack[s] both the energy of Sebadoh and the quirkiness of his Folk Implosion project. [Mar 2005, p.98]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A patchy affair. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The State Of Things confirms RATM will be following the Arctic Monkeys down the MI and onto the nation's radios for sometime yet. [Nov 2007, p.145]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A sleek fusion of minimal bass, subtle breakbeats and surpise vocalists. [Apr 2010, p.111]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Marge Simpson of nu-soul continues to meander down her own path. [Nov 2014, p.112]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is a fluid coherence to the project.
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their brand of ant music has matured and expanded noticeably since ANThology. [Sep 2003, p.98]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All baes covered, an international hit seems guaranteed. [Oct 2002, p.100]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thankfully... this reissue comes with a bonus instrumental disc, allowing the orchestral menace to speak for itself. [Oct 2003, p.127]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Golden State is, inevitably, rather good.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If they're not stressing about anything, neither will the listener, meaning meager traces remain when it's finished. [Dec 2013, p.105]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Much of this third album comes on like a bubblegum Breeders, sparsely arranged around Nash's spinal basslines. [Apr 2013, p.107]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hornby and Folds would seem to be a good fit in the checkered history of author/musician collaborations. And so it proves, up to a point. [Oct 2010, p.107]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When she stops bawling (on Colors), Potter reveals herself as an affecting vocalist who deserves better than the barroom. [Sept. 2010, p.118]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Justin Hawkins' vocal histrionics can, at times grate, but for suckers of old-school guitar riffs and songs about the Viking invasion of East Anglia, there's much to enjoy. [Jul 2015, p.104]
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