Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,989 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:
11989 music reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    His folky, cello-soaked songs will appeal to David Gray devotees. [Oct 2003, p.116]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If--as you should be--you're in love with Luna... you'll come over all swoonalicious to this subtly sparkling spin-off. [Dec 2003, p.130]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Spare, beautiful, outstanding. [Jul 2003, p.128]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A highly satisfying bridge between the log-cabin museum pieces of Revival and Hell Among The Yearlings and a more rockin', Basement Tapes-ish Americana. [Album of the Month, Aug 2003, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gahan's lyrical moochings are inevitably less assured without his umbilical cord to [Martin] Gore, at times bordering on moon-in-June banality. [Jun 2003, p.108]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The tunes are stunning, her voice has never sounded better and she makes serious points few others would dare in a pop context. [Oct 2003, p.114]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their brutal beats are married to fabulous pop songs. [May 2003, p.106]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A 21st-century alienated soul album that slips the Eels back into your heart. [Jul 2003, p.120]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Inpressive stuff, but like the Beastie Boys' tinnitus-inducing whines, Northern State's gonzoid yelps suffer from diminishing returns. [Jun 2003, p.110]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The greatest album ZTT never released. [Oct 2003, p.134]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you really want to hear folk-blues played with rock'n'roll attitude then go back to Boomer's Story or Into The Purple Valley. [Oct 2003, p.111]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Aside from [Interpol]... the Yes groups sound just as narrow and constricted as their scuzzy East Village forebears. [Aug 2003, p.120]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Jaw-dropping. [Jul 2003, p.136]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Songwriting of the highest calibre. [Sep 2003, p.104]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    At times this album seems interminable. [Aug 2003, p.116]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Repeated plays reveal little charm and less real humour. [Aug 2003, p.97]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a long time since we heard three-part harmonies as good as this from anyone. [Jun 2003, p.104]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    From Every Sphere is the ultimate grower, which moves, in your mind, from quite nice to utterly compelling and addictive over a matter of days, or better, nights. [Album of the Month, March 2003, p.94]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An LP of spooked delicacy and wheezy, wayward charm. [Jun 2003, p.104]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Seems to be his regular melange of jackboot glam and electro-metal spiced up with those endearingly juvenile stabs at pretension and subversion. [Jun 2003, p.94]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All that is good in hip hop is here. [Jul 2003, p.111]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Something of a let-down. [May 2003, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beth Ditto's remarkable gospel holler and fervent anti-sexist agenda deserves--no, demands--to be heard by a much bigger audience. [Aug 2003, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best album McCulloch's had a hand in since 1984's Ocean Rain. [May 2003, p.96]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's the freshest, most exciting and far-reaching left-field album in years. [Jun 2003, p.102]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Doesn't quite make it into the Thompson solo Top 10.... But it's good to have him back. [Mar 2003, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His twittering creations... use hip hop as their base but defy all attempts at categorisation and recall artists as diverse as Keith Jarrett, DoseOne and Smog. [Jun 2003, p.104]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's nothing profound about Electric Version. But classic pop has seldom sounded so much fun. [Jun 2003, p.98]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An endlessly fascinating maze of sound.... This decade's Endtroducing..., possibly. [Jun 2003, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    I doubt there'll be many better albums released this year. [Jun 2003, p.98]
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