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
    • 40 Critic Score
    As tame as it is conventional. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Musically, it sucks. [Feb 2005, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are enough thrilling moments on Black Dialogue to justify the collaboration. [Apr 2005, p.123]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a truly haunting record populated by ghosts. [May 2005, p.116]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A real leap forward. [Apr 2005, p.126]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When it all gels, you can forgive the occasional bout of navel-gazing self-indulgence. [Jun 2005, p.120]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    These stripped-down efforts offer an insight into the singer's writing methods, but not much else. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The robots were more fun. [Apr 2005, p.118]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Employment is an album that demands furious scrawls of red pen in the margins. [Apr 2005, p.120]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With a too-clean production job and some filler... Origin (Phase 1) falls short of the categoric statement of greatness needed to install the group in the major league. [Nov 2004, p.122]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lies somewhere between Kate Bush and a deranged Divine Comedy. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conjures a magical, cut'n'paste dimension where genteel lounge sways to disembodied voices, clicks and bleeps. [Apr 2005, p.126]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It doesn't always work. But overall, The Evens is an engaging debut. [May 2005, p.121]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ash have turned in a bullish and cocksure fifth studio album to delight the faithful. [Jun 2004, p.95]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Such are the highs, the weaker material suffers by comparison. [Sep 2004, p.111]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full of melancholy instrumentals rich in strings and percussive weirdness. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Recalls the riffola of Bleach-era Nirvana, complete with sludgy Led Zeppelin-esque guitars. [May 2005, p.110]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An even more spare-sounding album. [Mar 2005, p.100]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An album of some considerable beauty. [Sep 2005, p.118]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Despite some evidence of talent, though, it's mostly just musical gatecrashing. [Apr 2005, p.123]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The mood is still bossa nova night at the Marxist reading group, but that's not entirely a bad thing. [Apr 2005, p.123]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Not a wholly convincing return. [May 2005, p.110]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is only after about the fifth listen that the true wonder of Some Cities slowly starts revealing itself. [Mar 2005, p.97]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Insane, extraordinary. [Mar 2005, p.95]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His best work to date because, at last, he actually sounds awake--even if much of the record remains music for dozing in hammocks to. [Apr 2005, p.122]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressively reconfirms why she's alt-country's brightest rising star. [May 2005, p.111]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's real, it's challenging, and at times even funny. [Apr 2005, p.126]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Takes him out of the bedroom and into the bar room and, as a result, it's a much drearier affair. [Apr 2005, p.120]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alas, they undermine themselves with a weedy production which too often gives proceedings a demo-ish air. [Mar 2005, p.99]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Musically and lyrically, this has the same hazy, starry-eyed feel [as Music Of The Spheres]. [Oct 2004, p.121]
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