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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that reflects the best moments of his solo debut. [Nov 2014, p.114]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Midnight Organ Fight more than delivers on its promise: tons of spiky energy, proper tunes and a real lyrical bite to the likes of The Modern Leper. [June 2008, p.149]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This mixtape-style collection is more ramshackle than his most celebrated work, but it's still packed wirh inspired funk. [Dec 2008, p.127]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cudi is very much in a world of his own. [Dec 2010, p.110]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    "I need to rebuild a gang spirit," Morrissey said, and you can hear exactly that quality in the album's best moments. [Mar 2014, p.122]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shine is a work of subtlety and hushed intimacy that, at times, barely seems to exist at all. [May 2003, p.109]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once the listener gets beyond the references, Clarietta really hits the mark, with a high strike rate of knockout tunes. [Jun 2013, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Kozelek's compelling ache of a voice to the fore, his star deserves to wax anew. [Mar 2004, p.113]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's simply another excellent Elbow record. [March 2011, p. 98]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They are as fearless and undiminished as ever here. [Aug 2015, p.114]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As a collection of songs, this is hugely impressive. As a debut album, its confidence is right up there with Definitely Maybe. [May 2004, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Previously hushed, hymnal recordings are twisted into warming rock'n'roll. [Dec 2005, p.149]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clearlake have headed into deeper, darker waters. [Feb 2006, p.101]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A grippingly dramatic latterday-Leonard-Cohen-alike near-masterpiece. [Oct 2014, p.117]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Music that sounds completely out of time, made by an often incredible string band. [Sep 2006, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, The Hum is a thrilling testament to Hookworms' single-mindedness and conviction. [Dec 2014, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Including songs by Neko Case and Nick Cave, this fine album reaches way beyond the church. [Mar 2016, p.115]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While the 23-year-old will make more complex music than this, it will be tough to come up with something more fun. [Aug 2008, p.140]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His first proper UK release is a treat, at times conjuring the beautiful, stark bleakness of Nick Drake, elsewhere not afraid to crank things up. [Feb 2009, p.119]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All this is but a prelude to the albums extaordinary, elegant climax, Bellamy’s three part, 12 minute orchestrial work 'Exogenesis: Symphony.' [Oct 2009, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    The mix is full of voices, all snipped up in fragments or rendered as blurred tones. The results lends his exquisite productions a haunting emotional resonance. [#361, p.115]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exhausting, but borderline brilliant too. [May 2003, p.102]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Voyage, ironically, takes us nowhere we haven't been, but has a blast revisiting Vitalic's favourite haunts. [Feb 2017, p.119]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pusha T and Malice are deft wordsmiths who deliver lean, whip-smart couplets. [Mar 2007, p.111]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thrilling stuff. [Dec 2012, p.109]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are moments of real pathos. [Feb 2016, p.108]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This record's packed with singalong moments. [Apr 2017, p.108]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dodos are too uptight to freak-out totally and the clash between slacker lyricism and unpredictable acoustic outbursts lends an intriguingly split personality. [July 2008, p.101]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These renditions, however, also stress how undeserved their reputation for tea-and-cakes twee was, using Stuart Murdoch's lyrical sharpness and the radio sessions' rough edges to draw blood. [Jan 2009, p.126]
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