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
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 23-year-old Nashville resident's keening voice can drag you in with either the acoustic intimacy of 22, which resembles the stark folk of Father John Misty, or the electrified rock of Ramona. [Mar 2013, p.95]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fans of Real Estate in particular, will be in ecstasy. [Jun 2016, p.117]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green Twins is high on sonic invention. [Jul 2017, p.108]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eating Us has a more cohesive sound than its lo-fi predecessor, but still radioates weird and wonderful vibrations. [Jul 2009, p.117]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coy, genail and funny... a potent antidote to the usual chill-out porridge. [#184, p.140]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Personal but detached, fizzling but restrained, it's indie-pop with a brain and a soul. [Sep 2017, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happiness may remain an elusive quality in AIC's music, but variety is not. Be it the acoustic parts in Fly or elegant a cappella vocals of Maybe, they juggle power and poignancy like masters. [Sep 2018, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With its shoebox percussion and no-budget production, Sleeper is a work of desolate, cracked genius. [Sep 2013, p.108]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Goddess is a while world to get lost in and it looks like Banks is a star just waiting to happen. [Oct 2014, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Casually unique and an unbounded joy to listen to, it's the quintessential Baxter Dury album. [Nov 2017, p.105]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nicholas Drain Lowe, now 62, remains sweetly lethal with a tune. [Oct 2011, p.124]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Taut, and wired with determination. [Jul 2005, p.119]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While these tracks have definitely been soaked in the dour euphoria that The Cure specialise in, The Twilight Sad are very much their own band. [Feb 2019, p.116]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They manage to pack such a powerful emotional punch across these 10 tracks. [Feb 2019, p.117]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songwriting is more direct. [Jun 2020, p.105]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Hynde who steals the show with her lip-curling vibrato, part Elvis, part Dusty, never more intoxicating than on the seductive 'Almost Perfect.' [Jul 2009, p.129]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's stark simplicity to Tonra's lyrics that's evocative enough to consistently land emotional haymakers. `[Apr 2013, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She avoids excessive sugariness via edgy, sensual lyrics and Timbaland's superlative production. [June 2002, p.123]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This one's a colorful addition to Smith's rambling canon. [Sep 2017, p.109]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a sense of make or break here, but it's clear what they deserve. [Sep 2013, p.109]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a real and sinewy loveliness to these compositions. [Jan 2018, p.106]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Uneven as it may be, Black America Again is a stirring reminder of the Chicago MC's relevance. [Feb 2017, p.113]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's his sharp, searching lyrics that elevates 3.15.20 to giddying heights. [Jun 2020, p.106]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This mix proves his skill again. [Mar 2013, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's all quite ridiculous and lots of fun. [Jul 2018, p.111]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album overflowing with ambition and ideas. [Summer 2019, p.109]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memphis soul is tapped by JTE ... the regret and pain of his songs harking back to the days when drugs had him thrown out of his father's band. [May 2012, p.91]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Locked Down] offers a vivid reminder as to why his myth has endured for so long. No one else comes close to sounding like this. [May 2012, p.96]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Butler's spacey sing-song tones skip across the muddy off-kilter beats, forging a sound that is both immediate and moreish. [Aug 2017, p.110]
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