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
    • 80 Critic Score
    In its elegiac tone, its gauzy production and its sense of impending finality, The Ghosts is Williams' Time Out Of Mind, the album on which Bob Dylan pondered his own mortality. [Mar 2016, p.117]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Eastern motifs on Infinty are trite. Ultimately, it's not enough to derail this engrossing record. [Jun 2011, p.116]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that shows just how ambitious, fresh and vital-sounding guitar music can still be. [Jun 2018, p.108]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A masterful collection of songs from an overlooked, but truly brilliant artist. [Apr 2016, p.113]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Intriguing, unpredictable and far from ordinary. [Mar 2007, p.110]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where Grinderman 2 does possess unique ace is its skillfully employed shot of psychedelia. [Oct 2010, p.102]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lilac6 is as effortlessly subtle and debonair as 1999's reformation album.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still a stunningly individual reinvention of hip hop and R&B, with great songs swimming in a murk of bizarre arrangements. [Apr 2002, p.119]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her jazz-tinged voice soars; the music manages to be both wonderfully austere and subtly strange. [Jun 2004, p.98]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This collection is laced with a compelling sense of psychosis. [Dec 2003, p.156]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    45 bonkers minutes. [Jun 2004, p.103]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Dallas-born singer is still making music that's deep and unorthodox. [May 2008, p.141]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The whole album passes without anything you could call a tune, but there's a keen intelligence at work: while fiercely odd, it's frequently electrifying, too. [Feb 2010, p. 112]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eyes On The Lines is the follow-up to his excellent 2014 album Way Out Weather and it finds Gunn rolling down the same never-ending dusty highway. [Jul 2016, p.108]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Return may feel long and complex, but time and space reveal a unique new voice. [Oct 2019, p.113]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moving, in every way. [Apr 2020, p.113]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Listeners so far unhipped to the contemporary avant-classical may find themselves pleasantly intrigued. [Feb 2018, p.117]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wounded Rhymes is the moment Lykke Liu has edged ahead of the pack. And she still understands the value of a mighty percussive wallop. [Apr 2011, p.100]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fans of Fleet Foxes will find much to enjoy on his seventh album: there's a backwoods feel to much of his material and no shortage of sublime melodies. [Jun 2012, p.101]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weaving Song and Poor Old Horse's exhilarating communal bellow show the band homespun and raw. [Mar 2018, p.115]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At times recalling Eno's Another Green World.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With a singular perspective though, Hand Habits are in a lane of their own. [May 2019, p.111]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a powerful record that reconfigures the classic mnid-90s New York sound more skillfully than anyone's done for some time. [Feb 2013, p.103]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excellent, soul-infused debut. [May 2019, p.112]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
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    Common's best album so far, one that proves hip hop can be both smart and mainstream. [Jul 2005, p.114]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As giant a leap on from the lo-fi oddness of 2009's Gather, Form & Fly as it was possible to make. [Oct 2011, p.124]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    To hard-hitting R&B and funk akin to God Foot-era James Brown, Jones can strip paint and soothe with equal aplomb. [Dec. 2011 p. 129]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The range of his ambition and the nailed-on vocal performances soar beyond. [Mar 2016, p.119]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Startling, shape-shifting music by a band reaching the peak of their powers. [Mar 2013, p.108]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The tragedy, once again, is that nothing here approaches greatness. [Mar 2008, p.103]
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