Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,992 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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:
11992 music reviews
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    It's a feast of contextual songwriting and sizzling guitar. [Apr 2012, p.83]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's so generic it could be sold in a supermarket basics range. [Apr 2012, p.83]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Break It Yourself by contrast [to Noble Beast] feels like an attempt to communicate more directly and is his most affecting album yet. [Apr 2012, p.82]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While the lyrics are cliched to a fault, Lloyd is a convincing loverman across the range of backdrops he's given. [Apr 2012, p.81]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Too many tracks are still founded on tiresome conceits. [Apr 2012, p.81]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's certainly easy to believe that these sublime pieces could have inspired such a profound reaction [from director Cameron Crowe]. [Apr 2012, p.81]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There will doubtless be more varied shades on future records, but for now, this pensive debut gives notice of a fine new talent. [Apr 2012, p.80]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Over the course of an album even dogs will find the whistle register wearing, but taken individually these are sublime cocktails of post-geographical orientalism. [Apr 2012, p.79]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fabulous stuff all round. [Apr 2012, p.79]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Failure looks a long way off. [Apr 2012, p.75]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The malevolence and needling insistency of Gang Of four and Fugazi are this record's core. [Apr 2012, p.77]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The addition of vocals is hugely welcome, even if they are only Panda Bear-style chants. [Apr 2012, p.77]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A mature album that's abrasive but not "freaky" or "weird", that enjoys its moments of harmony when it finds them, and is as serious-minded as the times demand. [Apr 2012, p.76]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's a passion and naturalism to these songs that make them worthy of the hubbub. [Apr 2012, p.75]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The stream of banjo, fiddle, bones and spoons rolls on agreeably, marred only by a tendency to tweeness. [Apr 2012, p.73]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Zoo
    Less reactionary souls will thrill to the dynamic Zoo. [Apr 2012, p.73]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cardinal's fine harmonized vocals and muzzy, Byrds-like melodies are still intact. [Apr 2012, p.73]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Album number three enlarges their sonic palette with piano, dobro and touches of strings and woodwind but maintains the same folksy charm. [Apr 2012, p.71]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are moments of terrific turbulence, solemn quietness and some sadness, but the collection eventually lights on safe harbor. [Apr 2012, p.70]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The kids know where it's at, and so, in this career-high purple patch, does Paul Weller. [Apr 2012, p.69]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The demos are undoubtedly this boxset's main attraction. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The dominant flavor is deliberately faceless and club-friendly electro, but the highly finessed sonics and subtle attention to detail emerge over repeat listens. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The band's smarts and muscle come together with a resounding whomp on the new LP. [Apr 2012, p.75]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    He's never sounded quite so bitter as he does on Wrecking Ball.
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This painful exercise in manufactured soul-baring Is a genuinely grim proposition. [Apr 2012, p.82]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This singer-songwriter neatly balances the darkly troubled with the charmingly childlike, acoustic clunkiness with intricate finger picking. [Mar 2012, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wilner hits a few gorgeous highs. [Mar 2012, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's an ingenious arrangement, featuring juddering, minimal percussion, spare piano chords and vocoders that soar to the edge of the studiosphere, worth the price of the album alone. [Mar 2012, p.84]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Phantom Limb mine a solid seam of Southern soul, rock, country, and gospel. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Musically, too, he became far more adventurous than both Roxy Music and the New Romantic legions who echoed the original glam-rock innovations, his work paralleling that of questing artists like Scott Walker and Talk Talk.