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
    A purely musical delight. [May 2007, p.126]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He retreats too often into dull AOR choogling. [Mar 2007, p.114]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It could be horribly contrived, yet Bird has the rare touch to make it sound as natural as breathing. [May 2007, p.125]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Headaches and nausea are a possibility, so approach with caution. [Apr 2007, p.116]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's not much in the way of light relief. [Apr 2007, p.118]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One thing that hasn't changed is Thorn's voice, which is as warming and mellow as ever. [Apr 2007, p.122]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These songs are insufficiently distinctive and there is a surfeit of ballast in need of jettisoning. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Masterful and poignant, it reveals Mason to be a heavyweight talent. [Apr 2007, p.119]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The pair are so full of ideas, there's scarcely a dull moment. [Apr 2007, p.119]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As warm, strange and enchantingly off-key as the title suggests. [May 2007, p.127]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    More often than not, The Ponys end up stranded in a morass of pointless guitar static. [Apr 2007, p.121]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Alas, the only memorable moment is a cover of Fang's Money Will Roll Right In. [May 2007, p.129]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This new-found worldliness comes in tandem with a noticeable musical maturity. [Apr 2007, p.118]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She's just as full of herself, but she now has a voice brimming with womanly promise. [Nov 2006, p.149]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So outstanding is 'Cinderella' that its siblings pale in its shadow. [Sep 2007, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Full of borrowed ideas put together in a not unpleasant or unoriginal way, their sound is still too close to the myriad other wannabes trailing in The Libertines' and Razorlight's wake. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are some decent tunes. [Nov 2006, p.142]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rather than working as a listening experience, Myth Takes feels more like a dry run for one of !!!'s compulsive live shows. [Apr 2007, p.116]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This is music so guarded it's all but impenetrable. [Apr 2007, p.117]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A magical kingdom of noise that's equal parts Disney's Fantasia and Echo & The Bunnymen's lavish Ocean Rain. [Apr 2007, p.107]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stronger than SFA's last outing Love Kraft, this will appeal to those who appreciate the gentler aspects of Rhys's day job. [Feb 2007, p.106]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Search revisits the social commentary of Farrar's old band. [May 2007, p.129]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Where they were once a glorious mess, here they are simply a mess. [Apr 2007, p.114]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another of Cooder's worthy experiments. [Apr 2007, p.117]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's nothing radically different on offer, but fans will take heart from the sound of a band re-energised. [Mar 2007, p.112]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An unexpected treat. [Apr 2007, p.122]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's nothing here that feels truly essential. [Apr 2007, p.122]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [It] mines a similar seam of hard rock to that pursued by countrymen Wolfmother, only without so many Black Sabbath influences. [May 2007, p.129]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It sounds twee and, in parts it is, but it's leavened by their unrelenting world-weariness. [May 2007, p.123]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's... a core of tunefulness and celebration to their experimentation. [Apr 2007, p.118]
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