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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fin
    He likes to temper the euphoria with a much darker undertow. [Mar 2012, p.112]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Without breaking any new ground, Glowing Mouth shows there's a bit more of them than that [sounding like Coldplay's Chris Martin]. [Mar 2012, p.112]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Groundbreaking and mind-boggling. [Mar 2012, p.111]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It makes for an affecting, beautifully measured, very grown-up affair. [Mar 2012, p.111]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The idea of crossing over is approached like somebody running onto a motorway wearing a blindfold. [Mar 2012, p.111]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not everything works, but there's a painful honesty throughout that befits a songwriter with no desire to lapse into a complacent middle age. [Mar 2012, p.111]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He beefs up his sound with thumping drums and strings and what emerges sounds epic in comparison. [Mar 2012, p.111]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Opener Into the Night sets the tine with its robotic glitterball soul music, while Undecided fantastically tweaks the Roland 303 to Olympian levels of ecstasy. [Mar 2012, p.111]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Internet still feels like an important first step, not only for its willingness to test the limits of current hip hop/R&B, but as proof that Odd Future is more than just a one-man show. [Mar 2012, p.108]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Leonard Cohen sounds like a performer at the peak of his game. [Mar 2012, p.107]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those same giddy vocals, rusticated, old-timey arrangements and lyrics combine childlike reverie with an ancient sense of wisdom and dread make it equally magical and rewarding. [mar 2012, p.106]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's not perfect but there's enough invention here for that not to matter. [Mar 2012, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is a precious reminder of Wagner's quietly incisive gifts. [Mar 2012, p.105]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Maraqopa sounds like the place he's been searching for all along. [Mar 2012, p.105]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His aim is true, his enthusiasm genuine and even the one new self-penned track, Live It Up, slots in nicely. [Mar 2012, p.105]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hive Mind sounds at once strange and familiar. [Mar 2012, p.100]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Their penchant for thuggish lyrics and thudding beats now sounds more monotonous than menacing. [Mar 2012, p.100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vodka & Ayahuasca is a potent brew. [Mar 2012, p.100]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Classic heartbreak stuff. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A dazzling listen. [Mar 2012, p. 105]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Entrancing. [Mar 2012, p.102]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the curveballs, rather than the reliable Lanaganisms that make Blues Funeral such a powerul return. [Mar 2012, p.101]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They sound like a band expanding their horizons with success. [Mar 2012, p. 100]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Swapping The Hold Steady's white-knuckled intensity for skeletal drums and echoing guitar gives Finn's voice more room to manoeuvre. A welcome change of pace. [Mar 2012, p. 100]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [She] sticks to the formula of soft-spoken polemical raps and gritty lo-fi beats. [Mar 2012, p. 97]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This third effort sees the band step into darker territory, blending detuned guitars and Sonic Youth-esque dissonance with infectious pop-punk hooks. [Mar 2012, p. 100]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All the evidence anyone needs that the 50-something Weller is in the midst of a supersonic prime. [Mar 2012, p. 98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The music is as compelling and versatile as Polachek's voice. [Mar 2012, p. 97]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their second album finds them full of anthemic swagger and brio. [Mar 2012, p. 97]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unlikely to return them to chart orbit. [Mar 2012, p. 97]
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