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
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For once, the return to form tag rings true. [Dec 2003, p.129]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another like this and people will struggle to remember she was ever in another band. [Dec 2002, p.98]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sort of glorious record Greenwich Village beatniks would make if they'd been hibernating for 40 years. [Feb 2004, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a raw urgency to the album that belies its dated influences. [Oct 2003, p.108]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lyrical delights lurk round every turn. [Dec 2003, p.132]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Easier to admire than actually like. [Oct 2003, p.114]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In its own vapid, curiously sexless way, Life For Rent is actually fascinating stuff, so set against the usual rules of successful music that it starts to look oddly revolutionary. [Oct 2003, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Terrific stuff. [Dec 2003, p.129]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though Matmos are undoubtedly the Willie Wonkas of ear candy, just occasionally The Civil War gets too anal. [Oct 2003, p.109]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A slow-burning but deeply impressive debut. [Sep 2002, p.109]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bell has an instinctive feel for sound but, as Freak's teeth-grinding acid house nostalgia underlines, he won't find a new audience with this. [Oct 2003, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A second album full of ambition and epic arrangements so unexpected it knocks you sideways. [May 2004, p.108]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The musical scope is breathtaking. [Dec 2003, p.139]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is one glaring drawback: so taboo-shredding are her lyrics, and so brutal her music, that she probably won't achieve the clout to which she obviously aspires. [Oct 2003, p.99]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The poppier bits like Jupiter Rising don't always work, but the darkly gritty Time In Babylon, in particular, shows just how far Harris has pushed the traditional country sound. [Oct 2003, p.104]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A joy from start to finish. [Dec 2003, p.124]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    None of their new album will be remembered in a few years' time. Yet, like most fast food, there's very little wrong with it right now. [Dec 2003, p.130]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All very creditable though, for a man who once oozed vitriol, a tad bloodless. [Oct 2003, p.103]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A far more rounded proposition than 2000's water-treading Chocolate Starfish. [Dec 2003, p.132]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His witty baritone flow is more than a match for his masters. [Dec 2003, p.139]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fine showcase for simmering, ethereal pop music. [Oct 2003, p.111]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    So Damn Lucky and Trouble are lyrical ballads that succeed through understatement, but elsewhere Gravedigger is an awful, hectoring anti-war lament. [Jan 2004, p.117]
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    • 91 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Speakerboxxx takes up where Stankonia left off.... The Love Below isn't really hip hop at all. Its sound and lyrics owe a huge debt to, inevitably, George Clinton. [Sep 2003, p.97]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This assured, intense record heralds the emergence of a major force. [Nov 2003, p.123]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's when Bubba stays with his Southern roots... that he really shines. [Oct 2003, p.100]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A stark record that showcases her unsettlingly direct vocals. [Dec 2003, p.132]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's nothing unlistenable... but nothing hugely inspiring, either. [Dec 2003, p.120]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's plenty here to test the patience of even the sternest fan. [Dec 2003, p.122]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The overall effect is a little wayward at times, strangely touching at others, and nutso throughout. [May 2004, p.104]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fine start. [Mar 2004, p.113]
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