Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 11,991 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: 9,011 out of 11991
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Mixed: 2,906 out of 11991
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Negative: 74 out of 11991
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If the three-CD anthology is intended to make a case for the allure of the band's post-Tattoo You recordings, which comprise 18 of the 36 studio selections, it succeeds for the most part. ... The chief selling point, though, is the third disc, which contains 10 performances from recent tours, four of them featuring guest stars, and here, the results are decidedly mixed. [Jun 2019, p.49]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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This set offers up a dozen nuggets from the heyday of Nigeria Afropop, all previously unreleased outside West Africa. [Jun 2019, p.49]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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There's an equally brutal, pulverising mix of guitars and electronics elsewhere, but they surprise more often than not. [Jun 2019, p.34]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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Despite the glistening production and seamless craft of it all, his wired intensity is often missed. [Jun 2019, p.32]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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Hansard's whispery growl is something of an acquired taste, and the first half of this LP sees him aiming towards Nick Cave-style slow burning epics. ... More successful is the second half of the album. [Jun 2019, p.29]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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Taken together, the songs constitute a potent set of surging alt.rock euphoria and more sombre ambience. [Jun 2019, p.24]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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Never quite persuades you if it's sincerely bitter or a knowing facsimile of an early '80s break-up album. [May 2019, p.29]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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Parts of the album are perfectly serviceable but largely the songs become indistinguishable. [May 2019, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Apr 25, 2019 -
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Harding lays bare the pain and discomfort felt in her previous work, though the road to it is far more dynamic and winding. [May 2019, p.33]- Uncut
Posted Apr 24, 2019 -
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Finn remains an astute and supremely compassionate songwriter, but musically, New War is often mellow to the point of lethargic. It's best when it showcases his deep eccentricities. [May 2019, p.27]- Uncut
Posted Apr 24, 2019 -
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Producer Stephen Street deftly updates the brio of their early hits and the songs are impressive, too. [May 2019, p.27]- Uncut
Posted Apr 23, 2019 -
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As with Singing Saw and City Music, a lot of time an thought has gone into ensuring Oh My God holds together. Lyrical themes are repeated, explored and teased out. [May 2019, p.22]- Uncut
Posted Apr 23, 2019 -
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It's every bit as immediate and listenable as it is confident, and more buoyant overall than the sombre Modern Vampires.... It's also flighty and so wide-ranging, at times it reads like a future compilation rather than the next step from a band now into their imperial phase. [June 2019, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Apr 22, 2019 -
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More mellifluous than menacing despite its formidable display of power, Life Metal may be the richest work in the band's 21-year-mission to reconfigure Tony Iommi-worthy riffage into a soundtrack for mindful meditation. [May 2019, p.34]- Uncut
Posted Apr 19, 2019 -
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This daring approach at times exposes the quality of their material, but mostly this is sparkling stuff. [May 2019, p.34]- Uncut
Posted Apr 19, 2019 -
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Mix[es] up The Bends and OK Computer with a pinch of late Fugazi and Talk Talk. [May 2019, p.37]- Uncut
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Posted Apr 18, 2019 -
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While Forsyth is mindful to retain his more spontaneous impulses, this wonderfully intense set is dominated by "Techno Top", a pounding 20-minute groove that recalls both Talking Heads and Television. [May 2019, p.29]- Uncut
Posted Apr 18, 2019 -
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This audacious album succeeds not by altering Cage's distinctive identity but by exponentially amplifying it. [June 2019, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Apr 18, 2019 -
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Having helped define '90s alt.rock with Pavement, Kannberg here turns felicitous rock classicist. [May 2019, p.34]- Uncut
Posted Apr 16, 2019 -
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Andy Gill's guitar work is still distinctive and angular on tracks like "Toreador" and "Don't Ask Me," but the band seem intent on lending the old with the new. [May 2019, p.23]- Uncut
Posted Apr 13, 2019 -
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These 10 tightly wound, mystical mini-epics are underpinned by Jared Tankel's precision horns, and Brian Profilio, whose John Bonham drums bring the black country rock. [May 2019, p.24]- Uncut
Posted Apr 12, 2019 -
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Posted Apr 11, 2019 -
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White has found his sweet spot in the downhome elegance of Nashville's golden age, collaborating with venerable songwriters Whisperin' Bill Anderson and Booby Braddock, while Muscle Shoals bass legend David Hood anchors his studio band. [May 2019, p.37]- Uncut
Posted Apr 11, 2019 -
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Trent and Hearst have always been keen storytellers, digging deep into characters at loose ends, laying them out in the lyrics and then finding new depths and new sympathies in the performances. [May 2019, p.28]- Uncut
Posted Apr 11, 2019 -
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A welcome fusion of past glory with 21st century arena-rocking attitude. [May 2019, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Apr 11, 2019 -
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Even if the lyrical references to Greek mythology are a little nebulous, she's already created a world we believe in. [May 2019, p.29]- Uncut
Posted Apr 10, 2019 -
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At first you're impressed by more robust moments such as "From Inside, Looking Out"--think Philip Glass on steroids. But further plays are to the benefit of the record's more restrained moments. [May 2019, p.37]- Uncut
Posted Apr 9, 2019 -
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It's a sequence of long, ambitious, noirish, trip-hoppy soundscapes narrated by Burnett on what sounds like a phone line from hell. [May 2019, p.24]- Uncut
Posted Apr 9, 2019