Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,037 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:
12037 music reviews
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Highway Queen feels like the kind of record that should bump Lane to another level. [Mar 2017, p.28]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's business as usual for The Godfathers. [Mar 2017, p.30]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not every track is killer, but even the filler fascinates.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The set never feels like adapted poetry. [Jun 2017, p.28]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Like a cross between X-Ray Spex and rage Against The Machine as reinterpreted via US hardcore, there's plentiful anger, but also a hopefulness. [Sep 2017, p.26]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While groups like Thee Silver Mt Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor overegg everything, Moss works a far more thoughtful, nuanced seam. [Jul 2017, p.34]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pere Ubu's punchiest effort since 1998's Pennsylvania. [Nov 2016, p.35]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
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    While there are plenty of new lyrical Bejarisms to enjoy, the packaging feels a little stale. [Nov 2017, p.26]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chief songwriter Craig Johnson is canny enough to avoid being backed into a corner, and adds additional colour such as electro-punk "Execution-Rise" and the intriguing "Torrment." [Jan 2018, p.18]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A career highlight in low times. [Mar 2018, p.31]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An extraordinary instrumental album full of hypnotic rhythms and minimalist melodies that are both stunningly beautiful and at times oddly unsettling. [Jun 2018, p.28]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A set pf ripe and mature songs that reflect poetically upon insecurity, sacrifice, pride and hubris. [May 2018, p.27]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is the kind of roughed-up disco-not-disco that would have sold a ton when electroclash was all the rage. It might still. [Sep 2108, p.36]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Haiku Salut deepen and widen their electro-pastoral sound on this mostly sublime third album. [Nov 2018, p.30]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An extraordinarily, beautiful, haunting piece of music. [Dec 2018, p.25]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sinking Into A Miracle is absolutely beautiful--otherworldly, often, and quietly ecstatic, in its own, strangely pop way. [Jan 2019, p.17]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A stripped-down set of acoustic songs sung in a voice that is sometimes overly winsome but at its best is hauntingly ethereal. [Feb 2019, p.24]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A set of one-take, fragile musings, predominantly for acoustic guitar and voice. [Mar 2019, p.23]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This daring approach at times exposes the quality of their material, but mostly this is sparkling stuff. [May 2019, p.34]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nodding back to the Stones and The Band, these familiar sounds serve an open-souled gospel vision, rooted in upstate Nee York reality and dreams. [Jun 2019, p.27]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On Holy Spring he expands the minimalist palette of his debut Distant Early Warning. [Jun 2019, p.34]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inspired by Alfred Stieglitz's photographs of clouds, it's inevitably founded upon lengthy drones but there's subtle drama here, too. [Oct 2019, p.29]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond The Door might at times nod to good-time escapism, but it also represents unsullied rock'n'roll in music's most splintered age. [Sep 2019, p.33]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Much of [Kasabian's] personality comes from guitarist/songwriter/producer Serge Pizzorno, and on this solo project, similar quirks stands out. [Oct 2019, p.36]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The resulting album is a thing of gossamer beauty. [Dec 2019, p.25]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Moore's delicately stylish piano lines and Liz Fraser-style vocal hiccups combine seductively. [Mar 2020, p.37]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The record is awash with sparkling, instantly memorable melodies. [Apr 2020, p.28]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A blues feast. [Apr 2020, p.25]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The songwriter digs into the sound of his intense inner voice here. [Jun 2020, p.33]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clear-eyed, warm and stylish. [Jul 2020, p.20]
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