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
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It shows the music, too, is undergoing rapid evolution. [Jan 2012, p.123]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    London's electronic wunderkind explores just about every other avenue in post rave dance music. [jam 2012, p.123]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dan Mangan here serves up the welcome alternative [to other alt-folkies.] [Jan 2012, p.123]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Messy but addictive. [Jan 2012, p.123]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is an electrifying collection of electronic music with heart and soul as well as dancefloor throbs. [Jan 2012, p.1222]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The duo deliver traditional virtues and a familiar Yuletide ambiance here. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    936
    Your tolerance for extended jams will be tested but it's a varied and mesmerizing trip nonetheless. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Basically, it's a Megadeth album; no more, no less, no change. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their boldest and best album for years. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The results should be riveting. Sporadically, they are. [Jan 2012, p.127]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [It has] abundant warmth, melodiousness and spontaneity--and fewer full-tilt stylistic shifts than earlier records. [Jan 2012, p.127]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Breezy sort of fun to be had. [Jan 2012, p.126]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's great at times, but far more work than it should be. [Jan 2012, p.127]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's packed with clever songwriting, wry observations and occasional Leonard Cohen-esque dark foreboding. [Jan 2012, p.120]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Attention Deficit Domination goes straight for the doom-rock jugular. [Jan 2012, p.120]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are moments of genuine wonder. [Jan 2012, p.120]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An admirable tribute if frequently deafened by the echo of its tragic catalyst. [Jan 2012, p.121]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As a kind of '90s bedsit atmosphere plug-in, it works perfectly. [Jan 2012, p.124]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Simply crazed speedcore played over actual cattle auctions. [Jan. 2012, p. 120]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The highlights are outweighed by tracks such as Glitter Gold Year, a half-formed sketch of jabbing bass and meandering riffs. [Jan. 2012 p. 120]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is unvarnished rock, primal and exhilarating, songs groaning with their abundance of great hooks, suggesting that El Camino may well prove to be the pair's definitive records. [Jan. 2012 p. 116]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Glover's wit and dexterity confirm he's the real deal. [Jan. 2012 p. 119]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A series of shiveringly atmospheric compositions that will appeal to fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.[Jan. 2012 p. 119]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oldham has been so far ahead of the folksy Americana pack for so long that it now sounds like he's even caught up with himself. [Jan. 2012 p. 119]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs are embedded with reflection and romance... This is how Christmas records are really done. [Jan. 2012 p. 118]
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimately Smile is a case of what might have been, and after all this time that's probably only to be expected. [Dec. 2011 p. 140]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Disc five means you can now hear it in its aborted "quadrophonic" surround sound mix. [Dec. 2011 p. 145]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This reissue underlines how much Achtung Baby's high-wire triumph owed to an era in flux and it's as excessive as it needs to be. [Dec. 2011 p. 138]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This debut collection of lo-fi chillwave-esque electronics and introspective song fragments locates itself deftly between Animal Collective's strung-out post-rock and the drum machine-powered sketches of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.[Dec. 2011 p. 137]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anyone able to go to sleep without checking the wardrobe for monsters is unlikely to find much of interest here. [Dec. 2011 p. 137]
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