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
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is a wonderful tension on Mangy Love between the pleasure of the music--lush, soulful, spinning out from Elliot Smith or Lambchop--and the often ugly, complex breaks and disturbances in the lyrics. [Sep 2016, p.103]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that advances the sound of LCD Soundsystem and more than justifies their return, while retaining all that was brilliant about them in the first place. [Oct 2017, p.98]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their sound is now driven by a tensile energy that sounds like they've been mainlining the early Factory catalogue. [Oct 2017, p.107]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Occasionally sentimental but always endearing, it's impressive stuff. [Oct 2018, p.116]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swinging , both fleet-footed and fingered, and bursting with humour and joy, the brothers ball the jack on what is perhaps their best album yet. [Jul 2014, p.101]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The thrilling racket of their live show has been sanded down but not blunted. [Sep 2014, p.110]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soar finds a happy ground between Dexys' debut and their much-loved but seldom-sold third. [Jul 2012, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is disorientating, but clocking in at just 26 minutes, this is also a tight, brilliantly breathless dispatch of noise. [Apr 2018, p.116]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For the most part, this is a pastoral, frequently beautiful folk record, spiked with the odd unexpected diversion. [Feb 2013, p.112]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's this ease of expression, both lyrically and musically, that makes Rewind The Film such a captivating listen. [Oct 2013, p.101]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bristling with ideas, it's an album worth getting to grips with. [Mar 2014, p.115]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vocal harmonies, graceful pianos and psychedelic guitars keep the eco messages of Light Years and Dreamin persuasive rather than preachy, making Escape 2 Mars an impressive throwback to the "daisy age' of early De La Soul. [Feb 2010, p. 107]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A triumph. [Aug 2020, p.111]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All through, the harmonies are urgent, uplifting and unspun, a reminder that not everything needs a recoat to look perfectly at home. [Nov 2017, p.104]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a surprise to have him back, but on the strength of After You, a more than welcome one. [Jan 2020, p.113]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He's equally skilled as a stream-of-consciousness philosopher or gripping storyteller. [Jul 2012, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A serious sustaining of quality. [Feb 2020, p.122]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a suitably schizophrenic listen, the bubblegum-pop attack of Wasted On You and Move To San Francisco contrasted with the soul-searching anxieties of the album's second half. [May 2020, p.100]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is music of incredible warmth, where melody and emotion come before science. [Mar 2013, p.107]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here the melodies are a forum for a lovely, charismatic voice and some artful, memorable lyrics. [Mar 2014, p.119]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've crucially learned that musical light and shade need not only be flaring explosions, but melodic sunrises too. [Jul 2003, p.109]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a predictable sound, though there's a thrilling intensity here. [Jul 2013, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The spirit of Thom Yorke hovers over the proceedings in places, but ultimately those pining for the still missing-in-action Bon Iver should find some comfort here. [Sep 2015, p.109]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is much to savour here. If this is a swansong, it's most definitely a worthy one. [Nov 2017, p.104]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a charming side-step from a significant latterday voice of America. [Sep 2014, p.110]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The same album, only more so. [Dec 2005, p.146]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The whole album yields a little more magic with each play. [Feb 2016, p.118]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though a little limited on variation, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon's careful balance between comedown cook and genuine emotion suggests a new king for both club kids and guitar vets has (finally) arisen. [Oct 2013, p.105]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The guitar may intrude a little more but Emmaar is still built around gnarled guitar, harmonised chants, hyperspeed percussion and the sense that this music is as relentless as the Sahara sun. [Mar 2014, p.121]
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