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
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sounds more fun on paper than it is in reality. [Aug 2006, p.111]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    An excruciating listen. [May 2006, p.129]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Melodic, understated, yet with much natural warmth too, Ritter's time has surely come. [Apr 2006, p.119]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its wilful lack of song structure may make for a think-piece album rather than a jukebox favourite, but it's hard to deny its still-powerful magic. [May 2006, p.137]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Succeeds in sounding exotic. [Jun 2006, p.115]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's hardly revolutionary and nothing eclipses their finest career moment At Your Funeral, but there's nothing too wrong here. [Jun 2006, p.118]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green is a one-man game of musical consequences, mismatched but endlessly fascinating. [May 2006, p.124]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mogis finds a spectrum of hues in their previously monochrome sound. [Apr 2006, p.113]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a record that might even disappoint on first listen, but one that reveals many subtleties and wonders over time. [May 2006, p.118]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What we are left with is a sense of something not quite finished... It makes Ringleader Of The Tormentors feel like a transitional album. [Apr 2006, p.108]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Be warned: wisdom, soul searching and politics often lead to earnest power chords and clenched fists when coupled with poodle rock. [May 2006, p.123]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their most focused album to date. [Apr 2006, p.118]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nicholls has regained his muse in spectacular style. [May 2006, p.129]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If there's a problem, it's Bubba's one-track rhymes. All he ever talks about is himself. [Jun 2006, p.119]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash before her, she's turned to the likes of Will Oldham, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard for source material, and turns in an album of love, pain, suffering and redemption to rival any of them. [May 2006, p.130]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Electronic showboating even the original authors would struggle to identify. [May 2006, p.138]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times Return To The Sea can be too clever for its own good. But there's also an ambition here that's hard to knock. [May 2006, p.126]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times they lack the focus to quite surmount their influences. [Aug 2006, p.117]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With each mid-tempo riff swamped by syrupy harmonies and machine-tooled strings, this is metal with the edges filed down and all the soul sucked out. [May 2006, p.128]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Against the odds, the band have managed to keep things small and strange, and learned a few thrilling new tricks along the way. [Apr 2006, p.110]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    He remains rap's finest storyteller. [Jun 2006, p.115]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sounding suitably big and blustery, it's also stuffed with lots of positive thinking and hopes for a better tomorrow. [May 2006, p.128]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As much as The Back Room is a victory for style, it also strikes a blow for substance. [Aug 2005, p.135]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rarely has he sung this well. [Feb 2006, p.99]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Strangely addictive. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The dual-drumkit, tribal incantations and ominous drones have a pleasing menace but when you factor in the "concept"... patience starts to wane. [Mar 2006, p.111]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Get To Leave and Paradise Here Abouts unite Gelb's notoriously scattered logic into music showcasing an immense generosity of spirit and poetic warmth. [May 2006, p.124]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His masturbatory approach to the stroking of his muse is very nearly obscene. [Apr 2006, p.114]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A charming album. [May 2006, p.128]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A move to [Spain] has imbued Rouse's songs with sunshine. [May 2006, p.130]
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