Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,014 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:
12014 music reviews
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Original Faces is very lovely indeed. [Oct 2015, p.77]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They've added influences from '80s Brit-funk ("Just Can't Wait") and '90s R&B ("My Father In Heaven") to timeless psych-soul ("Together We Are"), joining up the dots across the black music diaspora. [Aug 2025, p.33]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is much here that is wonderful, but less of the tone set by the self-parodically chirpy 'Turqouise House' would have improved matters. [Nov 2007, p.132]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a facinating listen, one that feels like it could collapse at any time, but just about hangs together. [Apr 2010, p.90]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    CO's fifth album clothes Campbell's vignettes of thwarted romance in increasingly sophisticated arrangements. [Jul 2013, p.72]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thoughtful sixth album, which sees the songwriter wrestle with the growing challenges of life as she enters her early thirties. [Jul 2025, p,27]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Boy, so they know what they're doing on this whipsmart debut. [Jul 2025, p.31]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Guitars play more of a supporting role, and the tonal shifts suits the band, with Philippakis's voice given much more room to float elegantly through the record, [Apr 2019, p.29]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gem. [Apr 2005, p.105]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Working with producer Jack Splash, they craft a dense, bracing, kaleidoscopic avant-soul backdrop for frontman Paul Janeway's musings on religion, politics and family. [Oct 2018, p.32]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A wonderfully anomalous effort. [Jun 2015, p.81]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    "Escape From New York" and "Halloween" can't top the cold desolation of the originals. ... Pretty much every one of the album's 13 tracks confirm Carpenter's skill for an eerie earworm. [Dec 2017, p.25]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Akin to labelmate Brian Eno's early ambient work, its nine, often lengthy tracks of ghostly yet graceful desolation are intended to evoke the forgotten histories of enduring locations. [Jan 2018, p.18]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blistering opener "Straight To Hell" sets the carpe diem tone. [May 2020, p.32]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Those in thrall to Modest Mouse’s well-honed blend of ramshackle punk-folk and predilection for dispensing off-grid wisdom will find much favour with the latest addition to their canon. [Aug 2021, p.31]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    These are McCartney's most arresting songs for a long, long while. [Oct 2005, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Without altering her style drastically, Orton has broadened her approach on what is her most accomplished record to date. [Mar 2006, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These are beautiful songs, penned from midlife. [May 2014, p.82]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    "Dog" is a reverb-heavy highlight, but the whole set is as instantly likeable as it is smart. [Apr 2018, p.35]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might be best to appreciate Call The Comet as a sublime soundtrack, possibly the most atmospheric, widescreen guitar album you'll hear all year. [Jul 2018, p.25]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    To anyone over 16 it's Suicide/Velvets karaoke, a hacky homage to heroes rather than anything with fresh blood on its teeth. [Mar 2005, p.96]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Recorded live: there's a twisting, doomy intensity to these 10 instrumentals. [Dec 2014, p.73]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Touches of stoner metal in "Four Strangers Enter The Cement At Dusk" or a deeper psychedelic bent on "Harsho" offer variety, but the name of the game is sheer glee. [Apr 2020, p.37]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It lacks many truly original hooks, but this is a nice updating of Count Five-style psych menace to file with fellow lo-fi '60s revivalists like King Khan and Dum Dum Girls. [May 2011, p.82]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like all the best heavy rock albums, it suspends your disbelief, demands your attention and connects directly with your inner adolescent.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The lumbering "Livingston Bramble" aside, the music is elegant and winding. [Nov 2013, p.74]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Colour In Anything is Blake's fullest and boldest work yet. [Aug 2016, p.72]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall there's a warmth lacking on last year's lo-fi Swim Inside The Moon. ... Elsewhere, echoes of Bon Iver and label boss Sufjan Stevens suffuse "All Your Life," his rejection of suicide, while "Time's" whistled melody confirms his latent optimism. [Feb 2019, p.26]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It feels deft and thoughtfully constructed. A deeply warm record. [May 2021, p.23]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LP number nine features meditations on ageing: “Deathbed Of My Dreams” does it in a Nashville style; “Young And Stupid” does it like an early 1970s Eurovision entry. There’s also joyous self-affirmation. ... Best of all are “Prophets On Hold” and “Talk To Me Talk To Me”, AOR masterpieces that should have been on the last Abba album. J[Jun 2022, p.25]
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