Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,991 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:
11991 music reviews
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    Things grow richer and stranger as the album develops. [May 2007, p.87]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a larger-sounding, less homespun set than thte sisters' previous two albums. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Outside of fashion, and as exciting as The Bunnymen's second, Heaven Up Here. [Oct 2006, p.133]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [The first half is] all dismayingly unconvincing and lacklustre in execution... Then something changes.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cements FOW's status as the savviest modern-day practitioners of both Beatlesque pop and Steely Dan's cool precision. [Jun 2007, p.94]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's all certainly a lot more complex, if a little less immediate, than anything they've done before. [May 2007, p.104]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amid all the dirty, clanging glam, there are unfinished moments. [Apr 2007, p.119]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Endless Not sees the whirring tape-loopsof old replaced by iMacs, but not at the expense of sheer abrasiveness. [May 2007, p.113]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mesmerising stuff. [Jun 2007, p.99]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Steingarten combines clipped, Kompakt-style 4/4 funk with a massy dub sensibility reminiscent of Adrian Sherwood's Tackhead productions. [Apr 2007, p.114]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's strangely joyless. [Jun 2007, p.115]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's bombastic, but you can't fault its ambitions. [Jun 2007, p.115]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Klaxons bristle with energy and ideas. [Feb 2007, p.77]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smith sounds revitalised (and often very amused), delivering his most emphatic vocals in years. [Mar 2007, p.76]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their second album manages to be full of surprises, while never straying too far from what you'd expect. [Mar 2007, p.80]
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gimmicky moments are plentiful, but it's the box-fresh pop songs like "Misery" and "The River" that benefit most from their renewed sense of purpose. [Apr 2007, p.100]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Big
    Hampered by Gray's dial-a-diva rasp, Big is nowhere near as good as it should be. [May 2007, p.92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [It] strikes a finer balance between ['Year Of Meteors'] and the magic folk realism of her earlier work. [Apr 2007, p.116]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His elegant songcraft often recalls Freddie Mercury.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gone is the Suede-lite of The Tears. Instead we get acoustic guitars, lush string arrangements and the previously cagey Anderson pouring his heart out. [Apr 2007, p.92]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Bees have a nose for sniffing out fine pop melodies. [Apr 2007, p.93]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Rarely has anyone making such exciting and fashionable music been so unapologetic about being mature, too. [Apr 2007, p.97]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [The album] adds a newfound sang-froid to their quiet/loud approach. [May 2007, p.100]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They may have defined a genre, but Low can clearly still move forward. [May 2007, p.99]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Living With The Living finds them at their most assured. [Apr 2007, p.113]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Despite a top-drawer guest list, this often feels like empty bombast. [Mar 2007, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record dotted with peaks. [Apr 2007, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By far their boldest statement yet. [Apr 2007, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For those willing to take a chance, it's an impeccably realised, verbose treat. [Apr 2007, p.99]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Most of the album sees producers Charles Webster and Ewan Pearson buiilding on the bedsit rave of "Missing" and the beatific drum'n'bass of Walking Wounded. [Apr 2007, p.120]
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