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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her catchy new songs find comfort and self-reliance in solitude. [Aug 2019, p.31]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A grouchier echo of that opening shot [their 1983 debut album]. [Sep 2019, p.27]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A modest triumph. [Aug 2019, p.28]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With only three of the eight songs clocking in at under five minutes, things can get a little ponderous, but clearly, our expectations are of little concern. [Aug 2019, p.29]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unsurprisingly, the comp is most interesting in its lesser-known material found between bigger names. [Aug 2019, p.51]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Woodstock 50 is an archival feat, an exhaustive capsule melding bygone sentiments with timeless performances. [Sep 2019, p.49]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs like "of Lucky Hand" and "Deathwish Blue" see him shed the more chameleonic nature of last year's Full Circle Nightmare and more fully establish his own raggedly glorious sensibility. [Aug 2019, p.29]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    A witty and fresh response to America's current commander-in-chief. [Sep 2019, p.34]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    McMahon has the same eye for poetically absurd detail as her compatriot Courtney Barnett. [Sep 2019, p.29]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chords is a stark, minimal listen--but one that rewards patience. [Jul 2019, p.24]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s an odd sort of idea: a trio paying tribute to themselves. But even if no new ground is being broken exactly, there’s a pleasure in hearing the old space cadets out on manoeuvres. The music of Apollo is meditative and benign, yet strangely inscrutable; a reminder that while you might be able to visit space, it will never be home.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fascinating and deeply rewarding journey through the ages. [Aug 2019, p.38]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A great idea, brilliantly executed. [Sep 2019, p.37]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A certain gravitas is restored. [Sep 2019, p.46]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At first it all sounds slightly undercooked, but soon its crunched funk and sinuous synthwork, nicely judged on "Another State Of Consciousness," suggest a master grasping a new technique. [Sep 2019, p.37]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A return trip worth taking. [Sep 2019, p.29]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a cathartic and necessary release in these dark days of America, a riot reverberating through political resistance, social inclusion and sheer cathartic gyration. [Sep 2019, p.27]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anima feels like a dive into an inner world, profoundly intimate and emotional even as it remains enigmatic and blurred at the edges. [Sep 2019, p.25]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bratty autobiography still peaks though the clean and healthy Californian veneer. [Aug 2019, p.26]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unexpected and quietly ambitious. [Aug 2019, p.32]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thomas lurches from surrealist poetry to impressionistic short stories, like a hybrid of Captain Beefheart and Ernest Hemingway. [Jul 2019, p.33]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A little more zip wouldn't go amiss. [Aug 2019, p.36]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    18 tracks--and stylistically it's disparate, but that's the point. It's a one-time postcard. An advert for uninhibited experimentation. [Aug 2019, p.25]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sauser-Monnig's songs retain a sense of early-morning introspection that lingers. [Aug 2019, p.29]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Too engaging to be ambient, too amorphous to be melodious, Félicia Atkinson's latest continues her ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) experiments, her poetry whispered--often indistinctly--over strangely riveting electro-acoustic collages. [Aug 2019, p.26]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Purple Mountains is an excellent return to form for Berman; a worthy next chapter for a songwriter who quit, many believed, in his prime. [Aug 2019, p.30]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The emotional honesty displayed is equally effecting [as 2018's Warm]. [Jul 2019, p.37]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She summons the spirits very effectively here. ... John Parish's production of Hoop's delicate finger-picking adds to the sense of beautiful, bewitching isolation. [Aug 2019, p.31]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They've leapfrogged stasis and had what sounds like fun along the way. [Jun 2019, p.29]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Together, they've crafted a cerebral yet effortless vast and cinematic ode to love and new beginnings, one that splits the difference between shoegaze and synthpop. [Aug 2019, p.36]
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