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
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their break-up songs are built around a dynamic of sweet boy-girl harmonies and bursts of swearing. [Mar 2006, p.109]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sound[s] like out-takes from [Daft Punk's] Discovery. [Jun 2005, p.118]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is certainly no party album, and its colours are almost exclusively monochrome, but its majesty reigns supreme. [Sep 2005, p.112]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    So no, it's not perfect. But Whatever People Say... has that edge, that thrill that comes only when a band have hit the zeitgeist hard and timed the punch to perfection. [Mar 2006, p.102]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Essentially it's Ray Of Light without Madonna. [Mar 2006, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Follows a smilar pattern to 2003's Monday At The Hug And Pint, fleshing out their deceptively simple songs with expanded arrangements and quicker tempos. [Dec 2005, p.148]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strives a little too hard to display their twitching eclecticism. [Feb 2006, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If none are the kind of songs likely to be remembered with misty-eyed affection in another 40 years, they at least entertainingly tackle matters few others would. [Mar 2006, p.104]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An oddly anonymous disappointment. [Apr 2006, p.113]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The fact they're doing this in their early 20s verges on the astonishing. [Mar 2006, p.111]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everett comes on here like a less grizzled Tom Waits with a side order of Kurt Weill. [Apr 2006, p.113]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    So migraine-inducing that the Crazy Frog would seem like light relief. [May 2006, p.129]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There is something dispiriting about trawling through so many songs which show glimpses of lucidity, even brilliance, but always seem to either nod off or descend into chaos by the end. [Jan 2006, p.120]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Oddly muted. [Feb 2006, p.104]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Crackles with the cocky, hormonal exuberance of youth: it's a profoundly teenage album. [Aug 2005, p.126]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When samba's beat is uppermost, the music takes off. [May 2006, p.129]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The wild rhythms, unusual arrangements and often manic energy of the selections here still resonate. [Jan 2006, p.139]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The presence of more filler than is comfortable does not detract from the creative health in evidence on the better songs. [Feb 2006, p.100]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It's marooned in novelty. [Apr 2005, p.121]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Engaging stuff. [Apr 2006, p.118]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tunstall has Norah Jones's throaty catch, Dido's warmth, plus a winning way with a soaring chorus. [Jan 2005, p.130]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Well crafted, easy-on-the-ear janglepop which chugs along in a jaunty fashion. [Mar 2006, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressively, all this is delivered with sufficient panache to make it sound fresh and exciting, rather than merely eager to please. [Jun 2004, p.105]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Intricate yet funky, it mostly comes together to mesmeric effect. [Mar 2006, p.111]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's no denying its stout hart. [Apr 2006, p.113]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Even if... it never quite adds up to more than the sum of its parts, it's never less than a pleasure to listen to. [Apr 2006, p.119]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Homebrewed splendour. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strikes a winning formula of DIY integrity and big bucks sheen. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The slower numbers dawdle. [Mar 2006, p.110]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Three tracks in you realise with horror that [it] is a concept album. Worse, it's a concept album of kitchen-sink dramas about Tony The Milkman and Doris The Housewife set to Saint Etienne's dated indie disco. [Jul 2005, p.120]
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