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
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another beautifully scored Divine Comedy album that sounds a bit like Scott Walker and a lot like the last one. [May 2004, p.102]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It all feels so much more intentional than before, the mix of pop and experimentation they've long striven for. [May 2004, p.99]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A brooding collection. [May 2004, p.108]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her jazz-tinged voice soars; the music manages to be both wonderfully austere and subtly strange. [Jun 2004, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Beautifully written, played and sung, but just once it would be nice to hear a bit of distortion, a fluffed note and some real soul. [Jun 2004, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's a bolder choice of material.... Her playing has loosened up too. [Jun 2004, p.100]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Small, perfectly formed and wonderfully refreshing. [Jun 2004, p.105]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Nothing short of remarkable. [Jun 2004, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His best work in many a long year. [Jun 2004, p.105]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    There's no sense that there's any real passion. [Mar 2005, p.99]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A happy mess of ideas, fun and riffing. [Jul 2004, p.122]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seductive, breathy and forlorn, [Trebeljahr] sounds like a more ethereal Sarah Cracknell. Oh, and the songs are top drawer, too. [May 2004, p.104]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [The DFA's] desk work on Automato's impressive debut raises the profile of their proteges. [May 2004, p.98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What elevates The Veils above pleasant distraction... is [Andrews'] extraordinary, chameleon-like voice. [Mar 2004, p.113]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The raggedy, pared-back approach puts the spotlight right back where it should be: on Moorer herself. [May 2004, p.106]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you were charmed by early Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, or simply fancy a bonkers tune-fest, this inspired, lo-fi rock is for you. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A real disappointment. [Apr 2004, p.118]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pretty yet inconsequential, like a collection of half-finished spy film themes. [May 2004, p.108]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imaginative. [May 2004, p.101]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [There's] a raw, anxious quality reminiscent of '80s US cult favourites Violent Femmes. [May 2004, p.104]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    45 bonkers minutes. [Jun 2004, p.103]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He's shot truer and more heartfelt arrows than these. [Jul 2004, p.122]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A great leap forward. [Oct 2003, p.113]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reserve space and time for it. [Feb 2005, p.104]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If only the Stones would make a record like this. [Jun 2004, p.94]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Instead of the darkness and foreboding that infects Johnson's original '30s recordings, we get a thoroughly gentrified version of the blues. [May 2004, p.100]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The sex tracks themselves are more scary than seductive.... [But] the dancefloor tunes are far more slinky. [May 2004, p.107]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For sheer bravado and imagination it's something that few bands will top this year. [Oct 2003, p.109]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Addictive R&B hooks and all-dancin', all-lovin' subject matter boosted with hot production tweaks. [Jun 2004, p.107]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a gnawing gutlessness at work here, which ultimately sells him short. [Feb 2004, p.101]
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