Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 11,991 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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
| Highest review score: | Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Let Me Introduce My Friends |
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Positive: 9,011 out of 11991
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Mixed: 2,906 out of 11991
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Negative: 74 out of 11991
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They've turned their backs on disco and privileged operatic rock while retaining their--ahem!--inimitable sense of fun. [Dec 2006, p.106]- Uncut
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Peyroux's enviable ability to sing just behind the beat conveys effortless sophistication. [Nov 2006, p.124]- Uncut
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Too one-speed to attain the subtlety of Zep, too constipated to really funk out. [Oct 2006, p.99]- Uncut
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The production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex. [Oct 2006, p.106]- Uncut
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Love And Theft was quite unlike any other pop album--apart, that is, from Modern Times, its direct and audacious sequel. [Sep 2006, p.72]- Uncut
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Consolidates the experimentation of 2002's Phrenology and the conscious snap of 1999's Things Fall Apart into a focused, intelligent record. [Oct 2006, p.123]- Uncut
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[They] now sound more immediate, but seem to have forsaken some of their delicacy for caffeinated fuzz-pop, minus hooks. [Jun 2006, p.120]- Uncut
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Happy Hollow serves up more emo with prog on the side, then adds dirty blues, cabaret and art-rock garnish. [Sep 2006, p.79]- Uncut
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Stylish and substantial, it's a deft masterpastiche that dissolves history for its own entertainment. [Oct 2006, p.114]- Uncut
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It strives shamelessly for the widescreen appeal of U2's Big Music. [Aug 2006, p.88]- Uncut
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Reveals a side to Broadcast rarely heard: that of a band who are relaxed, at play and in places almost carefree. [Sep 2006, p.76]- Uncut
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There's a kind of redemptive comfort even in the album's bleakest moments. [Sep 2006, p.91]- Uncut
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Has the feel of an artist whose rougher edges have long since been washed away. [Oct 2006, p.119]- Uncut
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Ward's sweet, carefree voice is at odds with the urgency of the music. [Oct 2006, p.133]- Uncut
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She comes over like Tammy Wynette crossed with Parker Posey--an indie queen with a Kentucky twang. [Aug 2006, p.101]- Uncut
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Bachmann's gruff uniformity is, in the end, difficult to love. [Dec 2006, p.101]- Uncut
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While not quite hitting the heights of the recent Donuts LP, it again proves his brilliant nose for hip hop's pleasure points. [Oct 2006, p.123]- Uncut
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Lavishly appointed, expensively designed and almost entirely characterless. [Sep 2006, p.84]- Uncut
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Kelis' versatility... may mean she'll never hit like Beyonce, but she's still many producers' most stylish leading lady. [Nov 2006, p.117]- Uncut
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They produce big pop hooks via skewed My Bloody Valentine guitars more reminiscent of Giant Drag, but with the abrasiveness replaced by sugary harmonies. [May 2007, p.93]- Uncut
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One man's hurt is often another man's monotony. [Nov 2006, p.120]- Uncut
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It has more garage-rock energy than the enervated Babyshambles. [Jun 2006, p.98]- Uncut
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Avatar... feels like the work of a band bursting with ideas, and with the confidence to realise them. [Sep 2006, p.96]- Uncut