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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's so much going on here that joining the musical dots is a lengthy journey, but on this evidence Georgia can be special. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Achilles Last Stand and Nobody's Fault But Mine notwithstanding, Presence sounds as rushed as it was. [Sep 2015, p.121]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's aged remarkably well and All My Love is breathtakingly beautiful. [Sep 2015, p.121]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Coda mopped up odds and sods and two new discs include Page and Plant's 1972 recordings with the Bombay Orchestra. [Sep 2015, p.121]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Death Magic feels like the work of a band who have pulled themselves together, but might be more fun falling apart. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The remaining selections cover Newport appearances from all the major phases of his career. [Sep 2015, p.119]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confrontational yet communal. It's what his fans adore the most and, more than any of his previous five studio albums, Positive Songs For Negative People has it in spades. [Sep 2015, p.115]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As the album goes on, however, Marks To Prove It becomes a heavy dose of reflection upon reflection and a similarity of pace means the songs begins to merge into one another. [Sep 2015, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] blistering debut. [Sep 2015, p.109]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sticking largely to the budget yacht rock, hazy indie sounds of its predecessor, Another One finds our hero circling the plughole of heartbreak, with stop-offs into anguish, pique and confusion. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God only knows how they stay this angry, or this compelling. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Momentary Masters is a big beast with swagger in its bones and craft in its soul. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Largely they hit the sweet spot by turning these songs into tunes that could be straight off their own LPs. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whenever the energy flags and the songs become a little so-so, she turns on the voice and dazzles again. [Sep 2015, p.113]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The psychedelic haze of second LP Kaleidoscope Dream us toned down, replaced by a quixotic take on the R&B and rock landscape that, more than anything, stakes a claim for otherness. [Sep 2015, p.113]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Opting to name your album Magnifique certainly suggests a renewed confidence and the music here largely supports that. [Sep 2015, p.115]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not the new sound of now, perhaps, but they play with enough fury to make the ancestors proud. [Sep 2015, p.117]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cabic is most effective when he's closer to home. [Sep 2015, p.117]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's an unmistakable, tightly drilled quality to all his [Tony Esposito's] work. [Sep 2015, p.117]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While there's throat-shredding fervour, it becomes a crazily overextended blur of goofy anthemics. [Sep 2015, p.117]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exuberant party-banging love songs. [Sep 2015, p.116]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Blood is all about accentuating the positives, an ambitious and assured album that refuses to move any direction but up. [Aug 2015, p.105]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With hints of Maurice Jarre on the title song and Love Reign O'er Me achieving full-chest-beating catharsis, it suits its new symphonic frame. [Aug 2015, p.114]
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    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The world's finest rock'n'roll combo. [Jul 2015, p.119]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The melting-pot approach, amplified by Toure's raw, yearning vocals, is what makes these 10 tracks so tantalising and evocative. [Jul 2015, p.119]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If the songs on St. Catherine are remarkably pretty, there's also a lurking sense that their beauty isn't built to last forever. [Aug 2015, p.104]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Still work to be done here. [Aug 2015, p.106]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cod-reggae and sunny R&B are the order of the day here, which as beach bar background music would no doubt suffice. But unless Stone is content with coasting she needs a serious rethink. [Aug 2015, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Entirely instrumental, it retains the band's elasticated, rhythmic approach but stretches and softens it to create something much more atmospheric and evocative. [Aug 2015, p.105]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's their broadening of the musical palette which is more impressive. [Aug 2015, p.112]
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