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
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fans will be baffled, but this is magnificently deranged stuff. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A set of modestly sparkling gems. [Dec 2006, p.147]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    On this showing he's bored and directionless. [Nov 2006, p.134]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A hugely moving affirmation of life. [Nov 2006, p.136]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The sheer speed can be exhilarating, but changes of pace... are disappointingly few and far between. [Nov 2006, p.149]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An oddly affecting collage. [Dec 2006, p.132]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The band's punk credentials are immaculate. But that doesn't make them any more fun to listen to. [Feb 2007, p.99]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Makes for exhausting listening. [Sep 2006, p.108]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Between the unfinished and the clumsy, Pollard produces diamonds such as the wracked Give Up The Grape and sweetly breezy Boxing About. [Jan 2007, p.150]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unbearably stark. [Nov 2006, p.136]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Now they are finally more punchy than punchable. [Nov 2006, p.140]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Display[s] a broad musical taste that brings elements of Jack Johnson-styled folk and XTC jerk-pop to their unbridled, youthful joie de vivre. [Mar 2006, p.107]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Information... is hamstrung by the sensation that, though Beck likes rapping, he has little to say beyond smart-alec one-liners. [Nov 2006, p.138]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A much better record than its predecessor. [Oct 2006, p.112]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If there's a better little band in America right now, they're keeping very quiet. [Feb 2007, p.104]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Precisely assembled, melodic songs that shiver with emotion. [Sep 2006, p.107]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [It] could easily have been a staggeringly pompous exercise; instead, it's rendered intriguing by a liberated approach. [Feb 2007, p.99]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brown's pleasant if largely unremarkable voice rid[es] a set of lean and sultry funk grooves. [Nov 2006, p.149]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shine On is "new old rock" at its finest. [Nov 2006, p.136]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His most conventionally rocking album in aeons. [Nov 2006, p.143]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    He's not so much turning into his father... as his wimpy half-brother Julian. [Nov 2006, p.143]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [It] finds her on familiar territory, offering 12 concise yet fully realised vignettes. [Oct 2006, p.124]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Absorbing. [Jan 2007, p.153]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Of the 11 tracks, five are lovely, three are makeweights and an equal number excellent. [Dec 2006, p.133]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The results, while never quite suggesting imminent breakthrough, are sometimes elegiac. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Anything approaching a tune seems to have been muffled under a duvet of drowsiness. [May 2006, p.122]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If the songwriting isn't quite up to the standard of 1992's high-water mark It's A Shame About Ray, The Lemonheads marks a welcome return. [Oct 2006, p.122]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They haven't just picked up where they left off last time; they've recreated the sound of their debut wholesale, then tossed on a couple of extra layers of flamboyance for good measure. [Sep 2006, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sparklehorse's resulting leap transports the group away from gloomy country to a modern psychedelia that achieves its creator's ambition of "making Kid A with choruses." [Oct 2006, p.120]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A heroic performance. [Nov 2006, p.147]
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