Uncut's Scores
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For 11,996 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: 9,015 out of 11996
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Mixed: 2,907 out of 11996
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Negative: 74 out of 11996
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This subtle score to Italo Calvino's 1972 experimental novel still boasts quietly echoing melodies on "The Divided City" and on "Desires Are already Memories," hazy Stars Of The Lids atmospherics, but an underlying tension threatens "Every Solstice And Equinox's" tranquil air and "Total Perspective Vortex's" climax is terrifying. [Apr 2021, p.37]- Uncut
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Though his voice is as lugubrious as ever, there is more light and shade than before. [Sep 2006, p.95]- Uncut
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Burke... intuitively transforms a bunch of country tunes into gospel rave-ups and secular hymns. [Nov 2006, p.101]- Uncut
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The tone is generally one of mild encouragement, of jollying-along the reluctant participants in this most fraught of celebrations, as indicated by titles like "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!" and "It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!".- Uncut
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New Magnetic Wonder can make a claim to be the definitive AIS album. [Apr 2007, p.92]- Uncut
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It’s a majestic, grandiose, machine-tooled album, subtly orchestrated with gothic pianos and doomy organs.- Uncut
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A former architect, his second album pursues a funky, abstracted techno that, much like the music of his former label boss Actress, has a distinctly London grit. [Mar 2017, p.35]- Uncut
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Reid's follow-up to 2015's gorgeous debut, Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs, is no less bewitching. [Apr 2017, p.37]- Uncut
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GBV’s second of 2022 is another LP packed full of charm, imagination and winning tunes. [Aug 2022, p.26]- Uncut
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A rather lovely record...Fully audible at last, Cox's downcast lyrics invest these hazy tunes with gripping poignancy. [Oct 2010, p.90]- Uncut
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It’s proof that, when he escapes from awkward, self-conscious navel-gazing, Oberst can be a songwriter of some note.- Uncut
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Like Bryan Ferry aglow after the best afternoon stroll of his life, stylish and uncharacteristically serene. [Apr 2013, p.72]- Uncut
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Like Maja Ratkje, Jenny Hval and Bjork, Hukkelberg adds another to her already impressive catalogue. [Mar 2012, p.87]- Uncut
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This is about consistency of themes and mood over time, reimagined by a man reckoning with his past and drawing new light to the deepest of cuts. [Jan 2024, p.38]- Uncut
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This great LP is best seen as their Desert Island Discs, a statement of things the band can't do without. [May 2009, p.79]- Uncut
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Most rewarding are the serene "Something to Shout About" and the cascading "Down On The Corner": respectively, the No 1 smash Electronic should have had and the massive hit a reformed Smiths still could. [Mar 2003, p.95]- Uncut
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While diligently pursuing McCaslin's own vision, this could be an extra disc on Bowie's I Can't Give Everything Away boxset, breathing the same excited, expanding air. [Nov 2025, p.35]- Uncut
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Opening with the dolorous drones of "They Being Dead Yet Speaketh," Johannsson slowly builds to the rousing "The Cause Of Labour Is The Hope Of The World," a transcendent fanfare for the common man. [Jul 2011, p.88]- Uncut
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A finely crafted record, whose artfulness is mediated by informality. [Oct 2014, p.69]- Uncut
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After a fair-to-middling second album they took a self-imposed break before returning with this excellent effort. [Oct 2011, p.83]- Uncut
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Fish finds a gorgeous middle ground between lambent guitar soli, all slow rivers of singing steel string guitar, and richer, more resonant arrangements. [Nov 2015, p.72]- Uncut
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It would be a magnificent way to end a magnificent career, but Simon probably has more ideas in him. [Jul 2023, p.20]- Uncut
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Amos teams up with the Metropole Orchestra to revisit songs from her '92 debut onward, adding sumptuous, bejewelled dimension to the rich expressive like of "Precious Things" and the conceptual epic "Yes, Anastasia."[Nov 2012, p.69]- Uncut
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The true spiritual kin to Neal's spectral fragility is Mazzy Star's. [Mar 2021, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Feb 23, 2021 -
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If the scale is almost beyond comprehension, Love also represents a sonic Da Vinci Code for Beatles trainspotters. [Dec 2006, p.104]- Uncut
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His poignant, classically arranged pieces sit surprisingly well alongside more electronic compositions. [Apr 2017, p.37]- Uncut
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