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
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's not all bad, but Global suggest the hardest-working man in experimental pop needs a lie down. [Jun 2015, p.111]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One to be enjoyed in small doses. [Jun 2015, p.110]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressive and increasingly accessible, this is the sound of a major talent developing. [Jun 2015, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Platform is always engaged and engaging, the questions it raises never merely academic. [Jun 2015, p.107]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It does reconfirm her knack for making grown-up dance albums unlike anyone else. [Jun 2015, p.106]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While these songs still have Matsson's trademark melancholy at heart, there is a new kind of gladness and hope to them too. [Jun 2015, p.112]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This isn't just a new Faith No More record. It's one of their very best. [Jun 2015, p.113]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The follow-up [to 2013's All Hail Bright Futures] doesn't start well, picking up where that album's most irritating moments left off. [Jun 2015, p.100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A lovely, tender album. [Jun 2015, p.110]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's not quite the classic they desperately want it to be, but Danger In The Club exudes a ragged rock'n'roll spirit which simply can't be manufactured. [Jun 2015, p.109]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The songs occasionally thrill but tonally it all becomes just a trifle exhausting about halfway through. [Jun 2015, p.107]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Although it's all competently realised, it's hard to escape the feeling that this has been done many times over before. [Jun 2015, p.108]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    FILA is not his monumental debut, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, but it maintains the revival in form that began with its 2009 sequel. [Jun 2015, p.111]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a record marked by its elegance, pace and excitement. [Jun 2015, p.110]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From start to finish, it's moving and beautiful stuff. [Jun 2015, p.105]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Such is the accessibility of the music here that its myriad stylistic zigzags don't jar, they simply thrill. [Jun 2015, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Waterfall finds them back doing what they do best. [Jun 2015, p.108]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
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    MG is a frequently intriguing set of intimate modernist atmospherics. [Jun 2015, p.108]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hypnophobia is enjoyably immersive while it lasts, yet like so many dreams it's hard to recall any of the specific details once it's been and gone. [Jun 2015, p.106]
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a challenging, ambitious combination of words and music that becomes increasingly absorbing over time. [Jun 2015, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Side one isn't bad either, even if it doesn't quite scale the same heights.... A mostly impressive set. [Jun 2015, p.103]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The mood is largely sombre, quiet reflection the order of the day, although the odd striking lyric does leap out.... A grower. [Jun 2015, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Complex listening that never gets too wrapped up in its own ideas, Braids here discover a perfect balance. [Jun 2015, p.102]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Why Make Sense? is a meaty electro-grooving celebration of love, hope, dancing. [Jun 2015, p.101]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The polished alt-rock on show here may be serviceable and vaguely reminiscent of Hole circa Live Through This, but it also lacks any of the band's own DNA. [Jun 2015, p.100]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record to get lost in. [Jun 2015, p.99]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Likely to frustrate fans of folk music as much as fans of 10,000 Maniacs, Twice Told tales is a double disappointment. [Jun 2015, p.99]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While it might not feature too many songs the faithful will be hollering for at gigs, it's crammed full of ear candy. [Jun 2015, p.98]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If Not Now, When? sounds like a band operating admirably in the present tense. ;[May 2015, p.100]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fading Love is hard to fault on its own terms, but in a world where there's just so much music, sometimes being decent isn't enough. A bit of nastiness wouldn't go amiss. [May 2015, p.105]
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