Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,991 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
Score distribution:
11991 music reviews
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Argument showcases a band of uncommon power grappling with subtler shades as well as their quiet/loud, dub-influenced trademark sound. [Dec 2001, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The catchiest lesson in sexual politics you're likely to hear this season. [Dec 2001, p.111]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An American oddball, for sure, but one to treasure. [Jan 2002, p.146]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    You have to adjust to its lack of ornamentation and let it settle, seep, uncurl like smoke or love. And there are songs here to equal his best. [Album Of The Month, Dec 2001, p.100]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Rule's raw, worn vocal recalls 2Pac, a style perfect for the title track's state-of-the-nation address but wasted on fodder like "Smokin' And Ridin.'" [Jan 2002, p.140]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Like Disney on methadone scored by Jack Nitzsche with a gun against his own head, trying to remember this soundtrack he once wanted to make, which teamed Judy Garland and Neil Young. [Album Of The Month] [Sept 2001, p.86]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Almost every tune sounds like a hit. [Dec 2001, p.108]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The DIY production can smother their delicate melodicism, and those parping horns can sound distinctly cheap and shrill. [Jan 2002, p.131]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Toxicity is virtually unlistenable: thrash metal splintered into a million pieces by unnecessary time changes, topped off with excruciatingly theatrical vocals. [Dec 2001, p.118]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exceptional in its melodic prosperity and calculated grandeur. [Mar 2002, p.96]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Humorous, pithy and downright ballsy. [Sep 2001, p.106]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The acid-daze reveries are rich in detail, thought the baleful undertow and samey melodies lose momentum over the 22 tracks. [Apr 2002, p.113]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She uses her voice as well as she ever has, giving the moods light and shade. [Sep 2001, p.104]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's mind-expanding, punk psychedelia. [Sep 2001, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Self-consciously odd, but entertaining. [Sep 2001, p.98]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Continues their quest to reunite as many of the myriad splinters of pop music on each track as possible. [Sep 2001, p.87]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This year's 'Stankonia.' [Sep 2001, p.96] [Review of UK version]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He's very much the equal of Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood in terms of versatility and sheer invention. [Sep 2001, p.90]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On first hearing, it's a record to admire rather than love, but its insidious appeal soon gets under your skin. [Sep 2002, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    John McCrea's sense of subversion skates on the thin ice of their self-belittling grooves without ever quite toppling. [Jan 2002, p.131]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sonically exhilarating, yet the lyrical content remains as alluring as vomit on a Sunday morning pavement. [Sep 2001, p.104]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Few other performers have electrified country blues to such plaintive and non-parodic effect since the heyday of Led Zeppelin. [Sep 2001, p.100]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are still enough awkwardly anthemic choruses to unsettle their detractors. [Sep 2001, p.92]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Remarkable less for the tunes than the sheer, punchy exuberance on show. [Dec 2001, p.120]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One Lupine Howl is already too much, thanks. [Feb 2002, p.111]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A near-masterpiece.... It's hip and urgent, formal and exhilarated, everything guitar pop aspires to today. [Dec 2001, p.118]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Signals a further burst of creativity, suggesting there are still great things to come from the Australian Lennon & McCartney. [Jul 2002, p.123]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Finds her in typically literate form. [Mar 2002, p.115]
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