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
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cleverer and more talented people--say Clive James and Pete Atkin--have tried to make such collaborations work, and failed. Folds and Hornby join the line, a faint whiff of misogyny trailing behind them. [Oct 2010, p.97]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's a self-indulgence at play when can become aggravating. [Nov 2006, p.128]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Five years in gestation, these revved-up anthems are fuctional enough, but none have the catchy ska-punk bounce of the band's late 1990s commercial peak. [Sep 2008, p.99]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    What little humanity Colder once possessed has been erased. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While he recreates his past modes, he can't recapture the audacious conceits or raptures of Liberation and Promenade. [Jul 2006, p.90]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Without DFA tricknology to enliven their mix, they struggle with monotony over the course of an album. [Mar 2005, p.94]
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    • 47 Metascore
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    The emotional distance in their music is hard to bridge. [Jun 2006, p.126]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shadowed by a might past, in Ersatz GB, this is a strictly prefabricated Fall. [Dec 2011, p.82]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Elastic raps from Q-Tip and Spank Rock, plus some ballsy vocals at last from Rose Elinir Dougall, save the venture from total ignominy. [Oct 2010, p.105]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Two years of constant touring, countless festivals, a loss of a member (bassplayer Ira) and the addition of Gwen Stefani's producer, and something's gone awry.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Doesn't pack enough hooks to make it memorable. [Apr 2005, p.105]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Distinctly average. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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    • 45 Metascore
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    For the most part, For Now is characterised by a lack of personality and charm. [Apr 2009, p.80]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While there's plenty of laidback sheen, the collection is void of original hooks. [Sep 2019, p.24]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All albums are vanity projects, but this vanity may be in vain. [Feb 2003, p.76]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [His] voice bulldozes everything in its path, flattening melody and obliterating nearly every sentiment on this overzealous album. [Feb 2018, p.24]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Here they often come across as Hard-Fi playing the songs of The New York Dolls--infinitely more irritating. [Nov 2007, p.104]
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    • 70 Metascore
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    It's disappointing that nothing else on the record even enters the same solar system [as "1 Thing"]. [Aug 2005, p.92]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In among the glitch and twitch, however, lies the odd choice moment. [Nov 2005, p.114]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    System is like travelling backwards to a time when Trevor Horn and Steve Lipson ruled the earth, except this time the studio overlord is Madonna collaborator, Stuart Price. [Jan 2008, p.100]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Its wilful eccentricity distracts from the Native Tongues style that's their strongest card. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The results sound like an update of the kind of AOR racket Pat Benatar and Heart were making in the '80s. [Nov 2007, p.116]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    His vechile of expression alternates between acoustic confessional and clapped-out pub rock, leaving Dangerfield pootling down the middle of a fairly nondescript road. [Feb 2010, p.81]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The endless drug references now seem calculating rather than risque, while the daft lyrics simply grate. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bob Rock's big production ladles on the reverb, merely emphasizing hollowness at the core. [Dec 2011, p.81]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Surely the last flogging of a heavily Photoshopped horse. [Apr 2010, p.100]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With every element wound so tight, the relentless pace grows exhausting over the long haul. [Jul 2010, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
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    A curiously uninvolving affair. [Jun 2004, p.95]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    She's all suffocating style, no sweat. [Nov 2004, p.99]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For anyone else, Going Back is a heartfelt but pointless exercise in ersatz soul. [Nov 2010, p.84]
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