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
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As an oasis of calm in a world of noise and chaos, it's easy to understand her appeal. [Jan 2006, p.114]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    "Close To You" confirms how much she sounds like Karen Carpenter but, amid the over-familiar songs, most interesting are the relative obscurities. [Dec 2016, p.35]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not everything works as well, but its entertaining enough and a portion of proceeds go to charity. [Dec 2014, p.76]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All Of A Sudden... rather falls under the shadow of Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but there's ample majesty in its climactic moments to recommend it. [Mar 2007, p.79]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lovely for a few songs, the narcoleptic, yet semi-cinematic visions risk homogeneity by the album's end. [Mar 2017, p.35]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He reins in the Liberace-meets-Lenny Bruce schtick on his sixth album, a curiously anodyne effort helmed by Berlin electro buccaneer Boyz Noize. [Oct 2010, p.89]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A mildly Enya-fied take on the kind of astringent orchestral punk pumped out by Montreal's Constellation label, it has its moments. [Mar 2016, p.77]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's honest and immediate, but predictable. [Apr 2015, p.73]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lyrically, it's the darkness that maintains its grip, sometimes alarmingly so. [Jul 2016, p.74]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are traces of Rio's fantastic lipglossed silliness, but overall the arty party pop of All You Need IS now feels like an attempt to rescue a venerable British band long damaged by poor decisions. [Mar 2011, p.88]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are still touches of the Streolab/Broadcast school of archaic electronics, but Alpers' melodies are now fuller and richer, and texturally Bachelorette brims with contrast. [Jul 2011, p.77]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the originals that resonate, contrasting with a featherweight cover of Townes van Zandt's "Waiting Around To Die." [Mar 2003, p.97]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An oddly one-note follow-up. [Sep 2012, p.76]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's more fireside snooze than woodland romp. [Oct 2013, p.68]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Those bel canto melodies will still be a little syrupy for some. [Jun 2007, p.94]
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    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's harder to fault the tunes, however, smeared thick with QOTSA sludge or pretty 'Dakota' clones 'It Means Nothing' and 'Daisy Lane.' [Nov 2007, p.123]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Welcome tweaks to the template, but Schnauss could do with taking a more dramatic step out of his comfort zone. [Feb 2013, p.78]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album is most fun when it plays up to the contours of Karen O's idiosyncratic voice. [Apr 2019, p.32]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It probably made for a more interesting theatrical experience than it does standalone album, but if the form--expressive, exaggerated musical drama--is a bit unfamiliar, then Albarn's insidious tunes are not. [Oct 2008, p.101]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If the results are amiable rather than arresting, at this far down the road, that's surely enough. [Apr 2015, p.75]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a sincere but over-comfortable trawl-lovers of the man's rockin' fire will be disappointed. [Dec 2009, p. 92]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Arcade Dynamics is marginally more developed than previous releases. [Mar 2011, p.88]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All good fun, but inevitably, without Taylor's Longing vocals, it feels a bit like playing a piano with the black keys removed. [Jan 2010, p. 112]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His 2021 solo debut Times topped the UK dance chart and, the follow-up offers more of the same adrenaline rush. [Feb 2023, p.32]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Certainly it is a record of two halves, its first batch of corroded box jams smothered in hiss, including two listless cuts with Sampha. [Jan 2021, p.21]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    More rock music should be this reduced and addictive--but they'll have to think long and hard about self-parody some time soon. [Sep 2011, p.105]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The tracks are so sparse and lo-fi as to fell half-finished, and Svenonius' smouldering delivery fails to catch fire. [Dec 2017, p.27]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As a musical representation of physical and mental decline, it is morbidly compelling. But in the wrong mood, it's a bit of a trudge. [Feb 2016, p.75]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Green's songs are memorable and his subtle orchestrations effective, while his lovely, burnished, Dean Martin-ish baritone voice glues it all together. [Apr 2008, p.90]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cooing fragmentary, dreamlike lyrics in a fuzzy-warm purr, this young singer's kittenish vocal affectations will grate on some... [but] Dillon redeems her whimsy with promising nods towards Bjork, Joanna Newsom and Lykke Li. [Jan 2012, p.84]
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