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
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Emotional Mugger is as funky as it is twisted--a heavy rock record that truly groves in a way that heavy rock rarely does any more. [Feb 2016, p.85]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Santigold never flags in her campaign to capture the dwindling attention spans of modern pop fans. [Feb 2016, p.79]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Self-serious and low on humour, Suede sometimes mistake bigness for greatness, but they still generate enough lusty passion to set pulses racing and hearts aflame. [Feb 2016, p.83]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's comforting and surprising, full of trad sounds electrified by the off-kilter vision of an artist whose recognition as one of Americana's finest voices is long overdue. [Feb 2016, p.67]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their debut has a raucous charm that makes it easy to overlook their songs' emotional punch. [Feb 2016, p.77]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hymns sounds refreshed. [Feb 2016, p.73]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It all takes a bit of getting use to.... [M:FANS} is yet another fascinating maverick move. [Feb 2016, p.70]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    10 taut, white-knuckle songs. [Feb 2016, p.72]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Davis tends toward the archly self-conscious, and at times her music sounds oddly dated, but there is promise here. [Feb 2016, p.73]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Conor O'Brien's luminous, emotionally resonant songs suit the warmth and intimacy of a live setting. [Feb 2016, p.84]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their latest leans Southern Gothic, in songs about death, drink and doing the hard thing. [Oct 2015, p.78]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If the songwriting at times falls into cliche, the performances--passionate, eloquent, spilling over with regal harmonies--are anything but. [Jul 2015, p.72]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A different male duetting partner graces each track, with outstanding contributions from Jackson Browne and Willie Nelson among others. Yet all take a back seat tot he preternatural clarity of Collins' own soprano voice. [Nov 2015, p.73]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This highly agreeable live set assembles some of the choicest bits, harnessing prog, slinky space-funk and vivacious free-form jamming. [Jan 2016, p.73]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Caroline's 2CD sampler of her moonlighting efforts features charming interludes from past lives. [Nov 2015, p.96]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On I Abused Animals, Leigh works with stretched song forms--the result is remarkable. [Jan 2016, p.77]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    II
    Ultimately the notion lingers that Wax Stag's gentle fantasy is more Bedford than Balaeric. [Apr 2015, p.84]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] sonically rich debut. [May 2015, p.77]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happily, the overarching bleakness is sugared by Wells' brisk, sometimes cinematic instrumentation. [Jun 2015, p.84]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More straightforward.... Lovely. [Oct 2015, p.76]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nadia Reid's impeccable debut will maybe set a wider orbit in motion. [Dec 2015, p.77]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Futures is just as lovely as his admirers could have hoped. [Jan 2016, p.73]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Wells' unorthodox vision that presides. [Jan 2016, p.81]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Safe to say Wild Winter is no Mariah-styled bauble-fest, but it's all the better for it. [Jan 2016, p.80]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chorus shows that they are more than worthy of re-examination. [Jan 2016, p.91]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Substantial tranches of the Matrix Tapes have already appeared elsewhere. [Jan 2016, p.89]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their defining touchstones remain intact. [Jan 2016, p.81]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As noise records go, it's a thing of relative restraint, and enjoyable in its own way. [Jan 2016, p.81]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is a fitting tribute and resounding success. [Jan 2016, p.81]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Modern Dancing suggests they're just as smitten with Pavement's affably skronky early works as they are with any '80s touchtones. [Jan 2016, p.81]
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