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
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The superior [of the two albums]. [Dec 2004, p.142]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    You're left wondering quite what point she's trying to make. [Nov 2004, p.122]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Its fizz fades fast. [Dec 2004, p.142]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pristine production renders this as vital as anything by Justin Timberlake. [Oct 2004, p.104]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Only the urgent title song stands out amid nursery-rhyme emotions. [Jun 2005, p.110]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At times their lurid romanticism can be an acquired taste... But there's an ambition and articulacy here. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    She's all suffocating style, no sweat. [Nov 2004, p.99]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It is music whose scope, erudition and vitriol makes everything else in this year of exceptional musical timidity seem puny. [Nov 2003, p.106]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It only reveals its strengths after a dozen or more plays. [Nov 2004, p.112]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's terrific, lively fun--soulful, even--as long as nobody tries to tell you there's something radical about it. [Sep 2004, p.101]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As ambitious and compelling as psych-tinged pop gets. [Nov 2004, p.122]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gena Olivier's pallid vocals sound frozen stiff rather than disaffectedly cool by the halfway stage. [Feb 2005, p.78]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Libertines is a record of such raw autobiographical honesty that it carries a weight few others in 2004 can match. [Album of the Month, Sep 2004, p.94]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's frequently lush and lovely. [Dec 2004, p.150]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Radio Dept. recall that giddy moment before sounding like the Stones was considered revelatory. Only these Swedes re-tweak the formula, sounding, if anything, better than Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Boo Radleys et al. [Sep 2004, p.100]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hones the Southern harmonies and guitar-pickin' crosstalk of the brothers Good. [Nov 2004, p.116]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Mooney Suzuki are NYC's retro-homage to America's spandex pop-metal scene. [Sep 2004, p.98]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As a send-off... it's not quite the full parade. [Sep 2004, p.104]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Happy People] is a cunning, crackling, can't-keep-still classic. [Nov 2004, p.120]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another delirious half-hour of, mainly, mannered asthmatic psychobilly. [Sep 2004, p.95]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Despite the air of contemplation, there's plenty of energy. [Sep 2004, p.98]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lyrically, it's riveting, tapping into a unique Southern storytelling tradition. [Nov 2004, p.118]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've managed to retain everything that was oddly beguiling about them in the first place while boosting their mass appeal with a production that is all West Coast sleek and radio-friendly lustrous. [Feb 2005, p.80]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Terrifically thorough. [Nov 2004, p.131]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [A] disappointing move into bland, dinner-party-backdrop territory. [Nov 2004, p.106]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thrashes to the classic American assembly-line rock of Springsteen and the choppy pop of early Nick Lowe/Joe Jackson. [June 2004, p.88]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A sleek and satisfying sixth album--their best since 1994's Snivilisation. [Jul 2004, p.110]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a departure from previous Lanegan solo LPs... This time, Lanegan is looser, open to both experimentation and, once more, full-on rock. [Sep 2004, p.96]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a commitment here to melody as much as left-field wrapping. [Nov 2004, p.105]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Carr's ambitions outrun his abilities. [Sep 2004, p.98]
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