Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,992 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:
11992 music reviews
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impeccably arranged, the whole thing plays out like an extended, pragmatic version of "A Day In The Life." [Mar 2012, p.82]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Air seem to have found little fresh inspiration in his bricolage. [Mar 2012, p.79]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Other Lives are clearly kindred spirits of The National, but there's not a single clunky or derivative note here. [Sep 2011, p.93]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The best moments ion this latest from Francois Marry come with added West African sparkle. [Feb 2012, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The old-timey accompaniment and Dalton's bluesy vocals perfectly suit Hardin's exquisitely sad songs. [Feb 2012, p.83]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All over the shop stylistically--but a keen handle on dynamics and narrative holds it all together. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The patchwork of Orb-like sonic tapestries and guest vocals by some uncharacteristically gnarly rock veterans is not hugely original, but still manages to engage. [Feb 2012, p.84]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The result is four meandering tracks. [Feb 2012, p.89]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Royal Trux's '80s junk aesthetic has since been appropriated by James Ferraro et al, but Herrema does it with a sneer that's hard to resist. [Feb 2012, p.81]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In many ways Clay Class is another helping of their broken blues and Stuckist infra-poetry, charting a Fallen landscape, stripped even of grotesque enchantment. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dramatic and ravishing, 100 Acres of Sycamore is some achievement.
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The trio's blend of live performance, samples and electronica is hardly groundbreaking. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Laura J. Martin's debut album is an extraordinary and eclectic mix of flute, loops, mandolin and xylophone. [Feb 2012, p.92]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All and all, it's a little too cool for its own good. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cooing fragmentary, dreamlike lyrics in a fuzzy-warm purr, this young singer's kittenish vocal affectations will grate on some... [but] Dillon redeems her whimsy with promising nods towards Bjork, Joanna Newsom and Lykke Li. [Jan 2012, p.84]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The mood flickers between foreboding and playful; blues for modern times. [Jan 2012, p. 93]
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Starts loud, alienated and proudly rockist, and stays right there. [Jan 2012, p. 93]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Delrey loves rock'n'roll, but fuses it with drum machines, vintage synths and mischief. [Jan 2012, p. 84]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An unusually poetic songwriter revelling in his proximity to nature. [Jan 2012, p.88]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These Aesop-style animal-themed fables combine elegantly quirky orchestral chamber-pop arrangements with barbed and knotted lyrics. [Feb 2012, p.84]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Back On Time is restlessly inventive without being overwrought. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that is as eccentric as it is atmospheric. [Feb 2012, p.90]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    U&I
    It's the intoxicating instrumentals, "Boudica" and "In Motion Slow," that remind you of her capricious talent. [Feb 2012, p.91]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some tracks suffer, not from a lack of inherent quality but from the fact that you've already heard any number of perfectly decent, faithful reading of them. [Feb 2012, p.88]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Enjoyable stuff. [Feb 2012, p.81]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a punch that saves them [from] drifting into coffee-table politesse. [Feb 2011, p.98]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gonjasufi's nervous energy makes MU.ZZ.LE strangely soothing. [Feb 2012, p.86]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Klara and Johanna Soderberg have crafted a remarkably mature work. [Feb 2012, p.84]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For the most part, tired melodies and banal lyrics make for a disappointing collection. [Feb 2012, p.83]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You could call it happy hardcore, even if there's nothing particularly upbeat about its content. [Feb 2012, p.83]
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