Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,033 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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:
12033 music reviews
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Listening to the array of styles, from the Jim O'Rourke-like folk of "Psyche", laced with Martina Topley-Bird's cosmic incantation, to "Splitting The Atom"'s opiated rocksteady or Hope Sandoval's dusky ballad, "Paradise Circus", it's conceivable Del Naja and Marshall needed every minute of those years to concoct such alluring material.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pleasant but faintly drippy folk-pop. [Dec 2012, p.65]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although Kramer sometimes lacks the craft and discipline to make his purposely flimsy sonic treatments stand up as full-blooded songs. [Aug 2016, p.83]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If there are a few stylistic surprises, there's spirit to spare on the invigorating "Easy Street" and the lusty, bluesy "Fast Lane." [Oct 2018, p.34]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dawes come into their own as an articulate, self-assured SoCal rock band. [May 2013, p.69]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Patience is required to navigate his smirking in-jokes. [Jan 2017, p.28]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pop-minded producers Dimitri Tikovoi and Dan Grech-Marguerat add a sheen to the Up The Bracket-style clatter, and unexpectedly stately arrangements. [Mar 2024, p.32]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Even if the lyrical references to Greek mythology are a little nebulous, she's already created a world we believe in. [May 2019, p.29]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As usual, Pollard sabotages his commercial potential with weak production values and occasionally straining vocals. [Dec 2006, p.121]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Release Me feels like the soundtrack to a Josie And The Pussycats sequel unlikely to be made. [Sep 2010, p.96]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The lack of variety and formulaic production give this a wholly generic flavour. [Apr 2018, p.27]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If anything, Jukebox is bolder than "Covers," not least because two of the more obvious songs have been dropped from the original intended tracklisting.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These are sighs as much as songs, with Cale's vice rarely wavering into anything more obviously declarative than a half-snarl, half-mumble. [Sep 2015, p.71]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This meatier effort offers more of the same dog-eared melancholy. [Oct 2007, p.90]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The results are stiff at times, the LP overlong, but Branch's country songwriting sounds all the more compelling and idiosyncratic in this setting. [May 2017, p.25]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pants gas ditched electro-funk in favour of the kind of woozy, nu-gazing reveries crafted by Beach House, Girls and teenage Fantasy. Not that it's all whacked-pout bliss-pop. [Jul 2011, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colors may be less anarchic than his most famous albums from the 1990s, but he emerges as a studio tinkerer who has grown more disciplined but no less eccentric. [Nov 2017, p.24]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Less is more, and the Stones are at their best on the spoof country of Faraway Eyes; and Richards’ attack on You Got The Silver, with Ronnie Wood picking holes in an acoustic slide guitar.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Valley Tangents takes long, deep breaths, fuzz guitar scrawling over meandering piano in a humidified room. [Jul 2012, p.69]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They situate their voices on a pillowy bed of experimental pop, freak folk and, best of all, the sax-enhanced exotica of the title track. [Jan 2017, p.31]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With Mercury Rev/Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann poking psychedelic liquorice in the fluffy sherbet of their sound, Ross and drummer David Blackwell are more like an ice-cream van sinking in marshmallow, Motorhead on the dodgems or PJ Harvey fronting the Glitterband. [Mar 2018, p.28]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The mix of cryptic lyrics and childlike whimsy wears a little thin over the long haul. [Mar 2014, p.75]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The overall effect feels arch and a little insubstantial, James Bagshaw's airy vocals adding tot he sense of impermanence. They're best at their most direct. [Apr 2017, p.39]
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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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nobody else writes songs like Treacy. [Mar 2006, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The album is carpeted with generic riffage, shredding and mouldy memories of heavy rock's past. [Oct 2010, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is the best childhood summer holiday you ever had, condensed into 45 minutes of delicately arranged, beautifully performed, big, bright, cheery music. [Jul 2003, p.118]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All suggest that this band is in the process of remaking itself for a vital midlife. [Mar 2010, p.85]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They display an exuberant charm that's trashy and infectious. [Aug 2013, p.77]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finn's third solo album is a lush, multi-layered affair, making full use of its producer. [Mar 2014, p.76]
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