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
    • 49 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    They've turned their backs on disco and privileged operatic rock while retaining their--ahem!--inimitable sense of fun. [Dec 2006, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Peyroux's enviable ability to sing just behind the beat conveys effortless sophistication. [Nov 2006, p.124]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Too one-speed to attain the subtlety of Zep, too constipated to really funk out. [Oct 2006, p.99]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    B'Day sounds oddly de-energised. [Nov 2006, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The production is more sophisticated, the arrangements more intricate, the melodies and harmonies more complex. [Oct 2006, p.106]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [They] now sound more immediate, but seem to have forsaken some of their delicacy for caffeinated fuzz-pop, minus hooks. [Jun 2006, p.120]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Introspection clearly suits him. [Nov 2006, p.119]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's dumb, downhome fun, and deliberately gizmo-free. [Jul 2006, p.86]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Happy Hollow serves up more emo with prog on the side, then adds dirty blues, cabaret and art-rock garnish. [Sep 2006, p.79]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stylish and substantial, it's a deft masterpastiche that dissolves history for its own entertainment. [Oct 2006, p.114]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It strives shamelessly for the widescreen appeal of U2's Big Music. [Aug 2006, p.88]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A brave, beautiful record. [Sep 2006, p.76]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a kind of redemptive comfort even in the album's bleakest moments. [Sep 2006, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Has the feel of an artist whose rougher edges have long since been washed away. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A spirited response to their detractors. [Nov 2005, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ward's sweet, carefree voice is at odds with the urgency of the music. [Oct 2006, p.133]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She comes over like Tammy Wynette crossed with Parker Posey--an indie queen with a Kentucky twang. [Aug 2006, p.101]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Bachmann's gruff uniformity is, in the end, difficult to love. [Dec 2006, p.101]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lavishly appointed, expensively designed and almost entirely characterless. [Sep 2006, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kelis' versatility... may mean she'll never hit like Beyonce, but she's still many producers' most stylish leading lady. [Nov 2006, p.117]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    One man's hurt is often another man's monotony. [Nov 2006, p.120]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Psychedelically strange and outrageously entertaining. [Oct 2006, p.99]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Distinctly average. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It has more garage-rock energy than the enervated Babyshambles. [Jun 2006, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Avatar... feels like the work of a band bursting with ideas, and with the confidence to realise them. [Sep 2006, p.96]
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