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
    If there's a weakness, it's that the fulid, four-MC set-up masks a lack of lyrical depth.
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Features typically fragile thumbnail sketches like New Haven Comet. [Feb 2003, p.105]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Petty sounds like a bitter old man howling at the moon. [Dec 2002, p.110]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Settles for inoffensiveness rather than innovation. [Oct 2002, p.118]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rather good fun. [Nov 2002, p.116]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Hardly exciting, but it is terrifyingly professional. [Dec 2002, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At times slightly overdone, but on the whole enormous fun. [Jul 2003, p.111]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dig deeper, and you'll find rich arrangements more reminiscent of Knopfler's soundtrack work. [Oct 2002, p.110]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The faithful will be overjoyed: despite the optimistic title there's nothing new here, only a distillation of trace elements from previous outings. [Oct 2002, p.106]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is witty English guitar rock of the highest calibre. [Nov 2002, p.114]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Once you've let it grow on you, Sea Change is largely so lovely that you'll forgive him. [Oct 2002, p.98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Gabriel is mesmerising, his plaintive rasp never more gorgeous. [Oct 2002, p.107]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An acquired taste. [Mar 2003, p.109]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Her] penchant for pretension remains irksome: the dot in her name, the cringey album title, the worthy lyrics and constant namechecking of soul greats. [December 2002, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The impression is of a group who have got too good at sounding like themselves. [Oct 2002, p.110]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Most of the music here finds Earle in admirable form. [Oct 2002, p.106]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This unabashedly jolly outing manages to be both simultaneously charming and irritating. [Feb 2003, p.106]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An album largely split between moments of hushed intimacy and gonzoid rocksers that tend to pitch themselves between The Replacements, Tom Petty and -- presumably unwittingly -- U2 circa War. [Oct 2002, p.101]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While no disaster, the enterprise does smack of Vonda Shepard's coffee shop warbling. [Jan 2003, p.121]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The occasional bit of mannered filler slows things up slightly, but elsewhere all is groovy and enigmatic hauteur. [Dec 2002, p.107]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Their shift towards a more traditional heavy metal aesthetic seems more a natural progression than an act of desperation. [Nov 2002, p.100]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you can get over the voice--and it is not a lovely thing--Time Changes Everything at least has curiosity value. [Oct 2002, p.104]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A marvellous, surprising comeback from a forgotten talent. [Mar 2003, p.103]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The effect is spoiled by noodly, indifferent tracks such as We Meet At Last. [Aug 2002, p.128]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adamson's not abandoned the scary swing tunes that made David Lynch a fan... merely added another gear. [Oct 2002, p.100]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This friskier, fresher take on Evelyn's previous fare is especially well judged bearing in mind that the last thing the world needs is another chill-out album. [Sep 2002, p.111]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She's utterly beguiling, a fresh presence at last in singer-songwriter land. [Jun 2003, p.95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White it can still sound like samples waiting to be made into songs, on It's Not Me and Six Pack they reveal a canny knack with almost Motown-esque pop hooks. [Oct 2002, p.107]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The sense of creative retreat is disappointing. [Jan 2003, p.118]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A few too many of these songs follow an all-too-familiar formula -- slow-burning introduction building to a crashing finale -- but on Still Tonight, Lately and last year's single Til The End, the bluster melts away to reveal Haven's passionately beating heart.