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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stuttering breakbeats, looped effects and suffusive psychedelia. [Feb 2007, p.72]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Live may well be the best place to encounter them. [Feb 2007, p.73]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cadogan's threesome seem an altogether leaner, meaner deal. [Feb 2007, p.78]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is akin to walking in the woods alone at midnight--both spooky and compelling. [Nov 2006, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clearly, appealing quirks can easily become irksome affectations. [Apr 2007, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The biggest surprise is how rarely this scratch supergroup really swings to its full potential. [Feb 2007, p.68]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wincing isn't so much a departure as it is an all-out augmentation, taking the best things about The Shins and amplifying them. [Feb 2007, p.72]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At best, Hissing Fauna... posits its creator as the missing link between Hot Chip and Morrissey. [Mar 2007, p.88]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reuniting her ex-bandmates adds a rock impetus to Doiron's more fragile solo work. [Feb 2007, p.74]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like its predecessor, the most impressive aspect of The Enemy Chorus is not so much the breadth of its references as the tumescent, head-spinning harmonies. [Feb 2007, p.74]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The intense grandeur... is still quite a shock. [Feb 2007, p.73]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though garlanded in elegant strings, it's as furiously seething a record as she's made in 20 years. [Mar 2007, p.82]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This wonderful record already feels like a cult classic. [Feb 2007, p.88]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A sluggish, garage rock set. [Jun 2007, p.99]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remarkably alluring. [Apr 2007, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [It] isn't so much More Fish as it is Cheap Fish. [Mar 2007, p.81]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This largely instrumental set is a nicely ambient version of their usual hellacious harmonics, but also a reminder how the band have attained creative control on a major label. [Feb 2007, p.85]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Delivers much of the same. [Feb 2007, p.86]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another terrific collection, tacking a stylish course between Jam and Lewis, Zapp and raving crunk. [May 2007, p.88]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Concise at 12 tracks, the stylistic coherence seldom fails to engage. [Feb 2007, p.73]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The band seem to have suffered a who-are-we?-style mid-life crisis. [Jan 2007, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A dense and abrasive record of astonishing precocity, which, if it has a fault, is only that it occasionally offers brute intensity in excess of the impact Pemberton's razor-sharp verses. [Oct 2008, p.87]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Whilst a gift for converting arrogance into entertainment has always been one of Jay-Z’s strongest suits, Kingdom Come skirts perilously close to the showboating that marred 2002’s bloated double album, The Blueprint 2.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beast Moans can be drowsy at times... but it's punctuated by bursts of poetic insight and near-orgasmic glee. [Jan 2007, p.103]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If the scale is almost beyond comprehension, Love also represents a sonic Da Vinci Code for Beatles trainspotters. [Dec 2006, p.104]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's remarkable... how much of a piece the entire set is, reflecting how skilfully Waits has welded the various tributary styles of his art into a seamless whole. [Dec 2006, p.122]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Snoop's patter soon descends into G-funk pastiche and cretinous misogyny. [Feb 2007, p.85]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The tone is generally one of mild encouragement, of jollying-along the reluctant participants in this most fraught of celebrations, as indicated by titles like "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!" and "It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!".
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Their scratchily rhythmic guitar music with dour, sardonic vocals has proved immensely influential. [Dec 2006, p.114]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ys
    For the 56 minutes that "Ys" lasts, all the doubts evaporate. Every elaboration has a purpose, every labyrinthine melodic detour feels necessary rather than contrived. Tempting as it is to fixate on the gilded reputations of her associates, this is unequivocally Newsom’s album.