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
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Meteora is less an artistic endeavour than an exercise in target marketing. [May 2003, p.104]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Idlewild have added a new "dirty bomb" to their armoury: the emotional resonance of prime Morrissey/Marr. [Aug 2002, p.128]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A limited vocalist,... he's a far better pianist and arranger. [May 2003, p.104]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Where the big boys tick and twitch, Longwave merely plod. [Mar 2003, p.111]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shows little departure from the Malkmus formula. [Apr 2003, p.108]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sounds a lot like a world-weary J Mascis fronting Teenage Fanclub. [Mar 2003, p.108]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reaffirms her gift for big hooks and wry lyrics. [May 2003, p.100]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back to basics. [May 2003, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Us
    Us bristles with huge choruses and idiosyncratic lyrics, albeit suggesting that Pet Sounds is his record collection. [Apr 2003, p.111]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The most successful synthesis of their prog-tinged ambitions so far. [Apr 2003, p.102]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A rich quilt of Americana, as if the folk, country and rock strands were brought together in a starlit saloon somewhere near the border. [Jun 2003, p.106]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They're talented then, but also lucky that the strength of the decent songs outweighs the inclusion of the odd rough sketch, a studio jam, and an outright Chas & Dave-style stinker. [Dec 2002, p.103]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fine album, offering quality tunes, if not clever punches. [May 2003, p.100]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mood music in extremis. [Apr 2003, p.110]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Poignant and sincere, this is a Bill Callahan we could do with more of. [Jun 2003, p.104]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Log 22... finds them in familiar ground, each song dipped in its trademark melancholy no matter how frenzied the guitars get. [Jul 2003, p.100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A rhythmic assurance helps Muggs navigate the flabby portentousness that has hampered Massive Attack of late. [Apr 2003, p.113]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As unique as ever. [Jun 2003, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album's middle section is an exercise in restrained songcraft. [Mar 2003, p.114]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fine souvenir of DiFranco's recent jazzy excursions. [May 2003, p.102]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is complex, dense music that yields a little more with each play. [May 2003, p.106]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A less spirited affair, with little spark or enthusiasm. [Mar 2003, p.102]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Attempts to obscure the paucity of decent songs with endless guitar wittering. [Apr 2003, p.102]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Feels oddly half-baked. [Apr 2003, p.100]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's terrifically exciting stuff. [Apr 2003, p.101]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gone are most of the Beck-ish hip hop stylings, back is the bespoke indiecraft of spidery guitars, loose drums and oblique lyricism. [Mar 2003, p.108]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An exquisite addition to the canon. [Apr 2003, p.104]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He sings with surprising forthrightness yet these 10 electronic daydreams are not songs in any conventional sense. [May 2003, p.100]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A melange of preposterously angular guitar exercises, accomplished balladry and portentous doggerel. [Mar 2003, p.111]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Catastrophically, she's given up her trademark fruity sex rhymes, which leaves just mundane braggadocio and an unhealthy obsession with her ex-lover, Notorious BIG. [May 2003, p.109]
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