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
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jim O'Rourke's solo work comes to mind on tracks like Leaders, but there's more emotional depth here. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For all the wit, layered invention and easy-on-the-ear harmonies Deakin and Franglen bring to '64-'95, there's a corresponding lack of intrigue. [Feb 2005, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has the evocative tang of something ancient and the folk-rock idiom of the modern age. [Feb 2005, p.103]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It bobbles along, slowly but gracefully. [Feb 2005, p.100]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It sounds a bit like a female Elliott Smith and certainly more than the sum of its genes. [Aug 2006, p.112]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's nothing here that challenges the listener. [Mar 2004, p.112]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's essentially easy listening for uneasy people. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Stereo Total] have neither the songs nor the art to make their electro-doodlings anything more than an exercise in narcissistic cool. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The songs here bode well. [Jan 2005, p.128]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The band kick back and noodle with a refreshing nonchalance. [Aug 2005, p.137]
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    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One
    There's little experimentation to interrupt the drive-time friendly tunes. [Nov 2004, p.119]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The results are accomplished, but the yearning twang of the porch is never far away. [Jan 2005, p.127]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With their 11th studio album, they've succeeded in not becoming crap quite admirably. [Dec 2004, p.126]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A ferocious declaration of independence. [Jan 2005, p.124]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As the set progresses, the trademark Nirvana sound begins to take shape. [Dec 2004, p.152]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's disappointing to find a glut of songs seemingly calibrated to appease the demographics. [Jan 2005, p.126]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Want Two isn't an immediate album, but what it lacks in pop hooks in makes up for in ambition. [Mar 2005, p.92]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So, does it match expectations? No. [Jan 2005, p.122]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Peachtree Road is home to three songs that can sit alongside his best work.... [but] there are too many saccharine ballads. [Dec 2004, p.128]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As a daring experiment which flies in the face of the derivative tendencies evident in the modern music industry, it succeeds. [Dec 2004, p.140]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What once sounded thrilling and new now merely sounds tired and repetitive. [Nov 2004, p.127]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Genuinely anarchic and surprising. [Dec 2004, p.148]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    But for all the acerbic intelligence at play, the pretentious delivery makes this self-satisfied project hard to embrace. [Dec 2004, p.134]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A massively inventive debut. [Feb 2005, p.104]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Miserable and insipid. [Dec 2004, p.130]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A straightforward, warm-sounding album. [Dec 2004, p.138]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Smart and occasionally even danceable, if not quite as cool as they think. [May 2005, p.111]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Both [discs] are full of surprises. [Oct 2004, p.115]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wareham is in fine, sardonic form throughout. [Nov 2004, p.130]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An exuberant debut. [Aug 2004, p.110]
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