Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,008 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:
12008 music reviews
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's hard to deny the emotional weight and beauty of Polly's personal, if comparatively uncommercial, sixth album. [Jul 2004, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The results are sometimes almost listenable, which is why the most compelling songs on her third LP allay these avant-garde instincts to a belting tune. [Jul 2016, p.69]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Patterns Of Light grasps the surreal potential of the situation and responds with an OTT concept album. [Feb 2017, p.28]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's closest to the similarly spare Peace Queer and Agnostic Hymns & Stoner fables, and smider's writing assumes spectacular meta-dimensions. [May 2019, p.34]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With his band's thrilling fourth album, Baldi successfully develops his own take on the merger of powerpop and hardcore brawn. [Feb 2017, p.24]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Leschper meditates on creativity, identity and self-doubt in a voice that's equal parts Angel Olsen and Waxahatchee, while the music--played by a full band--runs the expressive gamut. [Apr 2016, p.76]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good, but the exciting notion of a genuine career left turn feels increasingly unlikely.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His debut for Thurston Moore's label is another walk in the forest of heavy psych rock and avant folk, that blurs the boundaries between the timeless and traditional and the tres moderne. [Nov 2008, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a delightful and charming addition to the original body of George's work, which highlights the quality of his songwriting and presents the material in a fresh light.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yak's galloping songs are slathered with thick, fuzzed-out guitar and occasional squealing sax, pushing every available needle into the red. [Jun 2016, p.82]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A great album but, compared to their live shows, this is like listening to a circus. [Aug 2006, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This doesn't disappoint. [Jun 2006, p.114]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sparer yet wholly captivating displays of psych-pop iridescence. [Oct 2017, p.37]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She reinvents the standards songbook in her image, using her deep, husky, Malboro-burnished voice to breathe life intro hackneyed old showtunes. [July 2008, p.115]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Another mature masterpiece from America's finest. [Album Of The Month, March 2002, p.94]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Even if this [air of refined sophistication] can occasionally make Women feel a little bloodless, you have to marvel at the exquisite execution. [May 2013, p.76]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If they're sometimes guilty of overdoing the chirpiness, their songwriting crafty is best served on the more subdued "Dearly Departed Friend" and "Sweet Amarillo." [Sep 2014, p.75]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's strong but uneven. [Apr 2015, p.71]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The airy, uncomplicated sound recalls a rural expanse, with St Louis’s hushed confidence guiding the listener through fields and along banks. [Nov 2018, p.33]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trupa Trupa's sixth album favours often lovely, mysterious ritualistic sounds. [Mar 2022, p.36]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hook-heavy hummability abounds, but most interesting are the newer "My Song" and "Let Me Go"--darkly atmospheric chunks of contemporary R&B/Hip-pop. [Oct 2013, p.68]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One of his better efforts. [Nov 2013, p.75]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On Paradise, cleaner recording--proudly made with Pro Tools--largely sharpens instead of defangs, while bringing out guitarist Kenneth Williams' surprisingly deep cabinet of textures. [Jun 2016, p.82]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If Sigur Ros shared a cottage in Dovedale, they might just sound as magical as this. [May 2013, p.71]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sermon On The Rocks is a wild ride, with producer Trina Shoemaker adding vivid colours to the singer's rolling rock gospel. [Dec 2015, p.78]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The pair navigate a procession of deep, massaging drones, crashing waves of pink noise and shimmering tone clusters that shift between tranquil calm and coruscating melody. [Sep 2016, p.79]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs themselves trip by with a deceptively casual air. [Jan 2017, p.27]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lovett has gone (partly) socio-political with his third. [Sep 2020, p.35]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's excellent, with enchanting melodies, emotional depth and a few unexpected evolutions. [May 2021, p.26]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Leaning lightly into their love of R&B on the likes of “Proof” and “Stevie”, and relaxing into expansive, stoned-in-the-sunshine grooves on pulsing lead single “Champion” and “Like Sweetness”, it’s a perfect goth summer record. [Jun 2022, p.34]
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