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
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sounds astoundingly like an album from his '70s heyday.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    9
    A delicate and sometimes bleak record. [Dec 2006, p.123]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [It] lives or dies on whether you think... Jack Black is a comic messiah or a juvenile chump. [Dec 2006, p.129]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although the songs are both traditional and modern, the mood of gentle awe and foreboding wonder is all of a piece. [Nov 2006, p.102]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [It] sees [MacKaye] playing to his weaknesses. [Dec 2006, p.106]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stark, often stunning. [Dec 2006, p.121]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The contrived newer stuff suggests she should stop trying to impress US hip hop royalty. [Mar 2007, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A record that feels massive without tipping into bombast. [Nov 2006, p.106]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sound is urgent and instinctive. [Dec 2006, p.124]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Madly ambitious and deeply heartfelt, it's a grand folly in the great tradition of British rock. [Nov 2006, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The lurch towards conventionality has exposed Isis' limitations: their paucity of melodic ideas, the pompous drumming, the lack of wit or soul. [Jan 2007, p.100]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Not wholly satisfying. [Mar 2006, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In short, Legend does for trad-soul what Oasis did for The Beatles. [Dec 2006, p.116]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [It] sees them break out of the subculture in spectacular style. [Nov 2006, p.123]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's mammoth hooks and meaningful shouting galore here. [Jul 2007, p.116]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sometimes enthralling, sometimes throwaway. [Nov 2006, p.120]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Full of fleeting revelations, Calamity is as bewitchingly fractured as The Red Krayola's subversive attacks on pop/rock form. [Dec 2006, p.106]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's not always pleasant... but at its best... it's the funniest, most adventurous and liveliest record of his career. [Nov 2006, p.134]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Oddly life-affirming. [Nov 2006, p.99]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For the most part [it] is worth the wait. [Feb 2007, p.74]
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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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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Press Play works rather well. [Dec 2006, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Effectively picks and mixes from the Jansch stylebook. [Oct 2006, p.130]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vivid, diverse and faintly trippy. [Nov 2006, p.99]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Shrill, theatrical, and unhinged. [Feb 2007, p.71]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things are more cinematic here, with every melody weaving through a mise-en-scene packed with dramatic incident. [Nov 2006, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though his voice is as lugubrious as ever, there is more light and shade than before. [Sep 2006, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's something curiously inviting about this understated music. [Nov 2006, p.120]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As usual, Pollard sabotages his commercial potential with weak production values and occasionally straining vocals. [Dec 2006, p.121]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's both Gothic and arch, meaningless and amusing. [Nov 2006, p.110]
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