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
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's so out of step with most indie rock it's as if it's been beamed from outer space. [Apr 2005, p.126]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They still sound best when playing fast and loud and are only hampered by the album's terrible title and some bizarre lyrics. [Oct 2004, p.123]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's all terrifically boring, naturally, but her voice is exquisite. [Nov 2004, p.117]
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    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They've lost the spark. [Sep 2004, p.122]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Often seems willfully inscrutable. [Sep 2004, p.120]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Deep voiced, disquieting and bristling with intelligence, Hobo Sapiens is a reminder of how intoxicating an artist Cale can be. [Nov 2003, p.107]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Innovation isn't on the agenda, but thanks to some stomping tunes and Auerbach's oak-smoked vocals, it's another rock-solid enterprise. [Sep 2004, p.119]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shows he still has few peers when whipping up a likeable mix of energy, melody and glistening harmonies. [May 2005, p.117]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The threesome do manage to build up a decent head of steam on the motorik Just To Play, but Olivier's bored tones guarantee the feeling is fleeting. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's nothing wrong with this record... Yet it's only on Feel The Beat, in which he lets his ego off the leash, that LL gets into gear. [Oct 2004, p.128]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This record... is brimming with character, easily surpassing their debut, its energy level like a battery charge. [Sep 2004, p.108]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Her voice is versatile, the beats delicioiusly languid, but it's the songwriting that shines. [Oct 2004, p.129]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The few electronic beats and textures are deft, discreet soundbeds for the lush intimacies of the vocals, which slip from soothing to strident. [Oct 2004, p.120]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's not much to tie it to the present day, but when the template is this well tuned that's no great problem. [Oct 2004, p.129]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Finds GBV playing to their long-standing strengths. [Oct 2004, p.124]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Clinic] has misplaced the groove and settled for a rut. [Sep 2004, p.117]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rendered with all the warmth of a fax machine. [Sep 2004, p.117]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dulli sounds like he's performing at a Sunday pub gig. [Oct 2004, p.130]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Neil Finn's gift for driving songs remains as strong as ever. [Sep 2004, p.118]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All hail the new Johnny Cash. [Oct 2004, p.132]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A glossy production makes for ear candy, but it's bereft of edge. [Feb 2005, p.102]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The lyrics tend towards the banal and, at times, there is a palpable sense of awkwardness. [Dec 2004, p.134]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The results are mixed. [Oct 2004, p.121]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's not an earth-shattering account of the last year, but maybe the most affecting in its ordinariness. [Jun 2004, p.102]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Returns to the epic beauty that characterised their early work. [Aug 2004, p.116]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Patchy... Little of his indignant bluster hits the mark. [Oct 2004, p.130]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shows [Lanegan] to be more alive and more vital than ever. [Sep 2004, p.121]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a fine set, full of calm, thoughtful rhyming. [Nov 2004, p.125]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Were he only able to drop the naff drum machines, this would be a classier piece of classicism all round. [Sep 2004, p.117]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    She recalls the emotionally raw folk of... Kristin Hersh. [Sep 2004, p.118]
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