Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,996 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:
11996 music reviews
    • 69 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The rhymes are gangsta shit at its laziest and most drearily noxious. [Mar 2002, p.111]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mainly, this is brilliant pop music... though Beenie's insistence on asserting his celebrated heterosexuality can grate. [Sep 2004, p.101]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A stew of funk noir and mashed-up rhythms--a little too mashed-up at times. [Dec 2002, p.130]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Early Man pull off metal with a back-to-basics swagger--even if their relentless assault does get a bit samey by the end. [Nov 2005, p.111]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Now regrouped by leader Jerry Cantrell, the bands' sound is still full of menace, melody and doom, chock full of Cantrell's trademark heavy riffs. [Dec 2009, p. 85]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A reliance on rabbity non-sequiters, plus a tendency to change genres every 11 seconds, makes the point of it all rather hard to grasp. [Mar 2016, p.77]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Main;y, though, we leave Clinic where we always find them: nervously pacing the room, waiting for something to happen. [May 2007, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An essential half-term report. [Nov 2005, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Offers something for everyone. [Nov 2020, p.25]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Album number five is the sound of the law of diminishing returns finally kicking in. [Jul 2012, p.73]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A return to form, if not a career-redefining masterpiece. [Jul 2005, p.107]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gleefully malevolent testament to the cathartic joys of furious, poison-flecked songwriting. [Oct 2007, p.113]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An album of sometimes stark simplicity, West is in many places rather drab and charmless. [Mar 2007, p.72]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This follow-up strives to be less ethereal, and with the somewhat mannered twin vocals of Alejandra and Claudia Deheza more to the fore, it brings to mind Madonna's "Ray Of Light." [Aug 2010, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Simple acoustic music lined with occasional piano and an inglenook voice owing much to early Joni Mitchell or Carole King. [Aug 2006, p.93]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Headhunter's laboratory productions are probably just a bit too clinical to transcend their genre. [Jn 2008, p.96]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The thick broth of Kyle Falconer's Scots vowels remain the signature sound--but don't let it distract you from some genuinely adventurous and witty indie guitar rock. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Overall it's a slow-burn success. [Jun 2012, p.74]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The album is filled with fascinating earworms. [Jun 2012,m p.69]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's gritty and urgent, but the powerful lead vocals are melodic and traditional, and the lyrics eloquent. [Aug 2012, p.75]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a riot of scattershot styles. [Jun 2013, p.81]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This third album sees him turn to songwriting for the first time as he channels his inner Lou Reed for a freewheeling take on New York art-rock. [Oct 2013, p.83]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While Winfield's pompous lyrics and over-earnest tone sometimes grate, the supple disco-funk of "Sparks" shows definite promise. [Aug 2015, p.81]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A set of atmospheric trance-like improvs that touches only tangentially on conventional song structures. [Mar 2017, p.32]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cinderland is undeniably, suitably eerie. [Apr 2017, p.30]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    II mixes sweeping, retro-futuristic synth-pop with brazenly outre guitar shredding and motorik beats to savvy--and emotionally sincere--effect. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The sinewy electric guitar lines and occasionally stodgy songs at times stray into the realm of windy stadium-folk, as blandly generic as Smith's name. When it does cut to the heart of the matter, however, Headlong impresses. [Aug 2017, p.37]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a joyous set. [Sep 2018, p.35]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They've drawn their inspiration from a wider constituency. [Oct 2020, p.25]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nothing about their sixth album sounds like business as usual. Refreshed by time spent independently exploring their own musical interests (Ansell electronica and production work; Carter an Americana-inspired solo album) and inspired by true crime documentaries and podcasts, the duo sought to explore the darker side of the human psyche, leaning into haunted house synth lines and gothic horror bass. [Feb 2022, p.25]
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