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
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimately, while(1<2) is overlong and never quite the cohesive masterpiece it wants to be, but there's tantalising evidence of a smart brain ticking away beneath those big Disney ears. [Aug 2014, p.114]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An album that feels necessarily smaller than its predecessor. [Aug 2014, p.105]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's an album constructed from the simplest of elements: muted keyboards chords, pained falsetto vocals and Krell's greatest weapon of all: near silence. [Aug 2014, p.108]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Del Rey sounds regally removed from the box-ticking modernity of her peers, a one-woman advertisement for the appeal of the unreal. [Aug 2014, p.113]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excitingly, War's chaotic punk and the frantic Guilty All The Same are as raw as they've ever been, but The Hunting Party is the sound of Linkin Park coming in from the cold. [Aug 2014, p.109]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clearly her reinvention was a step worth taking, though it might have been more radical if she'd truly struck out on her own. [Aug 2014, p.108]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sprawling, bewitching album. [Aug 2014, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's something almost rave-friendly about their effervescence at times. [Aug 2014, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A cut high above your usual tankard-on-the-belt stuff. [Jul 2014, p.103]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swinging , both fleet-footed and fingered, and bursting with humour and joy, the brothers ball the jack on what is perhaps their best album yet. [Jul 2014, p.101]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As long as they continue to ask themselves difficult questions, and answer them with records as full of fire and vitality as Futurology, failure is not an option. [Jul 2014, p.113]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    He's taken chances and won again. [Jul 2014, p.115]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is a deeply trippy record. [Jul 2014, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite the hypnotic repetition at its core, it's surprisingly tuneful. [Jul 2014, p.109]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs sounds just as fierce 20 years on. [Jul 2014, p.124]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The 1991 session hasn't aged well--the bongos are a problem, but 10 years later they'd mastered the art of subtle delivery. [Jul 2014, p.123]
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    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Upgrading previous remasterings, Page's personal touch brings out even more detail.... Each album's companion disc supplies both pleasure and an education. [Jul 2014, p.120]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Upgrading previous remasterings, Page's personal touch brings out even more detail.... Each album's companion disc supplies both pleasure and an education. [Jul 2014, p.120]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Upgrading previous remasterings, Page's personal touch brings out even more detail.... Each album's companion disc supplies both pleasure and an education. [Jul 2014, p.120]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Most songs need both depth and edge. With Love Frequency, Klaxons have tuned in. What they really need to do, however, is freak out. [Jul 2014, p.105]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While there's lots to admire in this clearing of the creative pipes, 48:13 is ultimately proof that great albums are all about the numbers. [Jul 2014, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easily the best Welsh language record since the Super Furry Animals' Mwng. [Jul 2014, p.100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rock heritage fetishism at its finest. [Jul 2014, p.114]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Solid but somewhat samey. [Jul 2014, p.109]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Decidedly monochrome, but strangely never dour. [Jul 2014, p.119]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alternately dreamlike and arresting, they've discovered a formula that realises the sonic sorcery always suggested by their name. [Jul 2014, p.119]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He still keeps the listener at arms-length, though, strung-out drones and an odd lack of projections suggesting this remains a work of intense introspection. [Jul 2014, p.118]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He's let down by an anaemic production. [Jul 2014, p.118]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An afterhours ambience attending his salty evocations of vintage soul, R&B and rock and roll. [Jul 2014, p.117]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thumpers work hard to trigger instant nostalgia for summers past but the longest shadows cast over their work are those of Animal Collective and Flaming Lips. [Jul 2014, p.117]
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