Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 4,832 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 68
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,777 out of 4832
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Mixed: 1,989 out of 4832
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Negative: 66 out of 4832
4,832
music reviews
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Critic Score 90
For all its muddied textures and sideways lurches, it is a magnificently engaging and expansive work. [Jul 2003, p.112] -
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Critic Score 90
From Every Sphere is the ultimate grower, which moves, in your mind, from quite nice to utterly compelling and addictive over a matter of days, or better, nights. [Album of the Month, March 2003, p.94] -
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Critic Score 90
A record which transcends any scene's fleeting credibility. [Oct 2003, p.122] -
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Critic Score 90
This is surely one of the most magical pop albums of 2003. [Sep 2003, p.112] -
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Critic Score 90
You don't expect progression from such evident classicists, but there's a new clarity, poise and refinement. [Apr 2004, p.107] -
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Critic Score 90
More, and even better, of the same--one of the dead-cert Albums Of The Year. [Album of the Month, Apr 2005, p.96] -
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Critic Score 90
The standard is so consistently high, sides so conclusively split, even after six years' familiarity with his schtick, that genius is the word. [Jan 2005, p.116] -
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Critic Score 90
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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Critic Score 90
This is adventurous modern music which uses old rock and singer-songwriter traditions as the raw material to be manipulated. [Album Of The Month, Feb 2002, p.110] -
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Critic Score 90
Where Ryan Adams replicates old records, this is something new. [Album of the Month, Feb 2005, p.72] -
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Critic Score 90
Grandiose, overwhelming, pretentious and absurd, Before The Dawn Heals Us is one of the first great albums of 2005. [Feb 2005, p.79] -
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Critic Score 90
Mercury Rev's power is undiminished. While never resorting to crude hooks, they build melodies to peaks of graceful intensity. [Album of the Month, Jan 2005, p.114] -
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Critic Score 90
If you liked 1972 in 1972, or liked '1972' in 2003, you'll find yourself swimming with this. [Album of the Month, Mar 2005, p.90] -
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Critic Score 90
M.I.A.'s vivid debut already sounds like a booty-shaking milestone to rank alongside The Streets and Dizzee Rascal. [May 2005, p.98] -
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Critic Score 90
A mouth-watering feast of beats and grooves... as welcome as anything he's done. [Apr 2005, p.100] -
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Critic Score 90
This sounds like the record Vic Chesnutt's been waiting his entire life to make. [Apr 2005, p.112] -
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Critic Score 90
Intermittently funny and never depressing, this confirms him among America's greats. [May 2005, p.108] -
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Critic Score 90
A dazzlingly clever record--great beats, brilliant production, top tunes and some of Albarn's best singing. [Jun 2005, p.106] -
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Critic Score 90
Hardly an alienating, experimental listen... White hasn't written such an accessible set of songs since 2000's De Stijl. [Album of the Month, Jul 2005, p.88] -
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Critic Score 90
These are McCartney's most arresting songs for a long, long while. [Oct 2005, p.94] -
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Critic Score 90
Super Furry Animals have just made perhaps the defining record of their career. [Sep 2005, p.100] -