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
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is an album which manages the rare trick of being accessible and head-warpingly barmy both at the same time. [Nov 2002, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The music here only rarely matches up. [Nov 2002, p.96]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sadly, bra-burning rhetoric and gospel warbling make poor substitutes for addictive songs, and nothing here rivals her previous best, Genie In A Bottle. [Jan 2003, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Only the relatively jolly Escape Song is worth excavating from the morass. [Nov 2002, p.97]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Why didn't they just call it Supernatural II and have done with it? [Dec 2002, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finisterre distills their Mellotrons, strummed guitars and electronic beats to a fine essence. [Oct 2002, p.114]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The drab orchestrations offer tepid schmaltz, not romance. [Dec 2002, p.112]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some rubbishy funk aside, Robinson sounds more energised than he has in ages. [Nov 2002, p.113]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While One By One starts like the best Foo Fighters album ever it doesn't deliver track-upon-track. [Nov 2002, p.110]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their best yet. [May 2003, p.102]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The odd portentous lapse and minor clunker aside, the rate of killer lines is remarkably high. [Mar 2002, p.115]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's claustrophobic, neurotic and occasionally nightmarish. [Jan 2003, p.119]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The tunes are serviceable, if hardly Fast Car. [Dec 2002, p.102]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Without a single piece of filler here, this is the musical equivalent of meeting a stranger you feel you've known all your life. [Nov 2001, p.128]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    10
    10 unfortunately remains mired in irrelevance. [Jan 2003, p.120]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No longer ahead of his time, he has a deft enough touch to keep irrelevance at bay. [Jan 2003, p.120]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cry
    It's about as vibrant and sweat-streaked as mainstream pop gets. [Dec 2002, p.105]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fantastically overwrought and indulgent yet also controlled exercise in emotive guitar rock. [Nov 2002, p.103]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More summery than a sombrero and probably just as unfashionable. [Sep 2003, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's great, with well-judged strings and horns giving full rein to some marvellously acute lyrics.... A glorious return. [Oct 2002, p.117]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The perfect soundtrack to a hazy autumn evening. [Nov 2002, p.96]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Admirably fresh, but perhaps too long. [December 2002, p.97]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The results, while respectfully chocolate box pretty, make Enya seem like a bomb-making radical. [Nov 2002, p.109]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like Moon Safari-era Air, unleashes shimmering, cinematic musical waves that gently wash over you but eventually suck you in entirely. [Nov 2002, p.113]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By the half-hour's end you might well consider strangling the singer but, by that time, these tunes will have launched their own potent psychological counterblast. [Apr 2003, p.109]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adds a touch of wistfulness to his usually slurred vocals. [Nov 2002, p.106]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bounce is the sound of a group who know what they're good at and why. [Nov 2002, p.97]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Admittedly, her FM-friendly singalongs aren't rocket science, just fantastically effective. [May 2003, p.109]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lovable, albeit irritatingly so.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite the odd bump Sexsmith could be in business at last. [Dec 2002, p.111]
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