Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,994 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:
11994 music reviews
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The combination of vaulting pop glory and damaged, fractured insecurity has seldom been done better since the early days of Sinead O'Connor. [Apr 2009, p.87]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Banjos, xylophones and 12-string guitars sound oddly unfolky in this context, instead taking an almost symphonic dimension on tracks like the lead single "SDP." [Apr 2010, p.88]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lyrically, it's business as usual. [Oct 2011, p.105]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    "Heaven" is a decent stab at '80s synth pop; "Looking Hot" and "Push And Shove" mix bubblegum R&B with ragga-inspired middle eights; the rest is rather forgettable. [Dec 2012, p.75]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Incompetent satire. [Apr 2003, p.106]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Both sublime and ridiculous. [Jun 2002, p.114]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The entire album is a beauty.... The most adventurous album of their career. [Aug 2002, p.110]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So while it's hard to quote a single memorable line, Yo Majesty's attitude is infectious. [Oct 2008, p.94]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    'Half Mast' and the 'Without You' are exquisite pangs of millionaire's melancholy, even if there aren't enough of them to sustain a whole album. [Mar 2009, p.85]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's an awkward, not entirely likeable mix. [Jul 2005, p.106]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If you’re willing to overlook Simon Le Bon’s always peculiar lyrics and occasionally strained singing, 'Red Carpet Massacre' is actually pretty impressive.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A solid set of songs. [May 2015, p.81]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Vandervelde's second album only really hits its stride in the six-minute centerpiece 'Someone Like You.' [Oct 2008, p.114]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Perry] rambles--incomprehensibly, as ever--over various trippy soundscapes from Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann. [Sep 2012, p.82]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The results are impressive. [Jan 2012, p.81]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another blast of super-slick soul. [Aug 2005, p.102]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's nothing here to rival "Drop It Like It's Hot", much less "gin N Juice", but the results are mostly harmless, even if that was never quite the point. [Jan 2010, p. 126]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Let Them Talk is competent and heartfelt but far from necessary. [Jun 2011, p.87]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lightweight but charming covers collection. [Jan 2026, p.29]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It suggests there's far more to him than the anonymous middle-of-the-road college rock for which the Americans have such an insatiable appetite. [Dec 2003, p.118]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pale fire, but fire nonetheless. [Dec 2002, p.130]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hints of "The Basement Tapes" glimmer through pieces like 'Win Park Slope' or 'Airstream Driver,' while John Martyn and Nick Drake ride again in the mystic folkery of 'Little Pieces.' [May 2009, p.86]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's a long, convoluted, tiresome listen. [Jul 2021, p.25]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Even a recreation of the harmonica sound from "When The Levee Breaks" on "The Falling Sky" and the same song's famous cavernous beat on "Sacred The Thread" can't help either song stick in the memory. [Sep 2023, p.27]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ya Know cuts deep, with the best singing and wiliest melodies of his career. [Jun 2012, p.96]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    it's full of lovely moments, but it nees more edge to keep you from snoozing. [Apr 2008, p.91]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Keith's interaction with his producers is minimal, and his creative control so thin that vocal parts often sound like samples. [Sep 2006, p.79]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Well; it could've been worse.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brian Jonestown do this stuff so much better. [Nov 2016, p.40]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's relentless, formulaic and irritating - and although things improve hugely when they drop the bombast on later tracks such as "where It Belongs", "Blood On The Page" and the gorgeous "Carry On", by then it's almost too late. [May 2025, p.33]
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