Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,008 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:
12008 music reviews
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is splendid piano-pop, leanly recorded excursions in cosmic prog, and evidence of an occasional charming eccentricity. [Jun 2013, p.71]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If the results can be unremarkable the album is redeemed by Nelson's engagement on most cuts. [Dec 2013, p.68]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a risky move [a change in sound] that has nonetheless reaped rewards. [Feb 2015, p.77]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skeletal Lamping follows the latter path, fleshing out the polymorphous persona of Georgie Fruit via brilliantly executed attention-deficit funk. [Dec 2008, p.105]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Convenanza is only Weatherall's second album, but it feels as if he's been making this fantastic, moody music all his life. [Apr 2016, p.82]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another furious, frenetic collection of lurching tear-ups. [Oct 2017, p.28]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are moments of real beauty, like the tenderly plucked "Of Unsent Letters," but what might be comfort via familiarity for some may well be lacking in evolution for others. [Dec 2020, p.29]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Too often Cunningham fails to develop his tracks, which start thrillingly only to fizzle out. [Jul 2010, p.101]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Collapse Into Now can only sound like an afterthought, but it nevertheless one which bristles and fizzes with invigorating qualities of wit and fury. [Apr 2011, p.76]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As ever: endlessly clever, utterly inessential. [Feb 2006, p.81]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's '80s pop, but not as you know it. [Sep 2014, p.69]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's very generously produced, with effects bursting from every crevice, but the melodies are (just) strong enough to weather it all. [May 2013, p.73]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is the instrumentation that offers the complexity, bringing texture to this deceptively simple-sounding album. [Jun 2013, p.72]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    "high Road" is melodic enough, for sure, and Mercer is a clear-voiced singer, but the album's interest palls when Mouse's answer to life, the universe and everything proves to be "pedestrian breakbeat." [Apr 2010, p.83]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They have at times found themselves mired in over-fussy arrangements, but here recapture something of the crisp economy of their breakout 2007 LP ...Are The Dark Horse. [Feb 2016, p.73]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crucially, it always feels as if Crystal Antlers are having a blast, continually cold-shouldering the obvious and pushing each other to the limits of their musicianship and beyond. [May 2009, p.87]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sometimes the union flourishes, but at times it's a grab-bag that's fallen apart at the seems. [Apr 2012, p.87]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His final album--and first since 1979--not only demonstrates the durability of the musical format he pioneered but also proves his indefatigability as an entertainer. [Jul 2017, p.25]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nude with Boots follows their last album, 2006's "(A) Senile Animal," in being one of the most straightforward, epically rawk albums of the Melvins' career. [Aug 2008, p.99]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ness' songs tackle his experiences with hard, unforgiving honesty. [Feb 2011, p.99]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Solidly crafted but with few surprises. [Nov 2017, p.28]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If once she was sweetly sardonic, now she sounds utterly bored, and collaborator Greg Kurtsin hardly helps with an anodyne synthpop production that makes excruciating excursions into rawhide country, pallid polka and Bontempi showtunes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a very fine album... even if it's surprisingly business as usual in many respects. [Oct 2002, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Yasuda provides most of the brightest moments with a new wave/elecro style that wrings real delight from revelling in pop art/trash. [Oct 2003, p.116]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ol' Frank hasn't had this much twisted fun since 1994's Teenager Of The Year. [Oct 2003, p.111]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A quietly remarkable record. [Aug 2005, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's quite fun picking off the trio's various folk-pop influences, with traces of The Mamas & The Papas, Astrud Gilberto and Natalie Merchant filtering through the mix. [Jan 2008, p.90]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It feels like a step up in terms of songwriting. [Feb 2011, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It doesn't always work, but when it does, it suggests a great artist finding new and surer ground. [Jun 2012, p.77]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    SeiTang's solo project is about extracting the trance-inducing goodness from equipment resurrected from the cusp of analogue and digital ages, so Badalamenti/Lynch Twin Peaks and Vangelis' Blade Runner are key reference points. [May 2013, p.78]
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