Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 12,042 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: 9,058 out of 12042
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Mixed: 2,910 out of 12042
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Negative: 74 out of 12042
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However unappetizing it may first appear, this is grimly funny food for thought.- Uncut
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Stiff flirts with mainstream etiquette--Ethan Johns produces--before resorting to the sort of hyperdriven, math-tinged choogles that have served the band so well over six albums. [Apr 2016, p.82]- Uncut
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Depending on which Paul McCartney you like the most, you may or may not like what he’s done. But the best thing about Electric Arguments is that it sounds like the work of someone who doesn’t give a stuff what people are going to think. About time, too.- Uncut
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Keren-Ann Zeidal has been covered by Jane Birkin and Francoise Hardy, but here progresses from chansons to create a spectacularly produced pop-art. [Apr 2011, p.85]- Uncut
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Not all of it works...But, as a radical overhaul of a career, it's a brave, brilliant and highly personal statement. [Mar 2010, p.83]- Uncut
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The LP draws on old-style American folk but expertly remodels it for a contemporary audience. [Jun 2012, p.70]- Uncut
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The highlights are splendid: a brass-embellished "Red Hill Mining Town", a languid piano-led "Beautiful Day", a near-calypso "Miracle of Joey Ramone". [Apr 2023, p.38]- Uncut
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It's poppier than ever before, with big hooks played with funk and bossa nova fills, fat Balkan brass and imaginative lyrics full of bug-eyed images. [Oct 2013, p.71]- Uncut
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On Chaos For The Fly, Chatten is able to chase down a succession of personal demons, while broadening his emotional, musical and vocal range. [Aug 2023, p.24]- Uncut
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A 10-track masterclass in spectral, psychedelicised pop, it's awash with great tunes and soaring arrangements. [Nov 2006, p.117]- Uncut
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At times it recalls the hyper-vivid, motorik jazz of Stereolab circa Cobra And Phases; elsewhere, it's closer to Tropicalia given a 21st-Century re-boot. But the very best songs here incorporate everything, unexpectedly changing shade. [Nov 2013, p.75]- Uncut
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While the music has incorporated a more expansive but similarly idiosyncratic palette. Fripp-esque sustain, synths and drum machines colour a beautifully constructed record that brings to mind Aztec Camera’s High Land, Hard Rain or Scritti Politti’s Songs To Remember. [Nov 2024, p.40]- Uncut
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The album is only 30 minutes liing, but that's plenty enough exposure to live electricity. [Feb 2017, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Jan 25, 2017 -
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It's frequently wistful, sad and nostalgic. Yet Cooder's eccentric storytelling style and his prankish, Sufjan Stevens-ish take on Americana also sounds oddly contemporary. [Apr 2007, p.99]- Uncut
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This Yorkshire quartet's debut deserves similar acclaim to Shame, Idles, Fontaines DC and their ilk. [Mar 2020, p.33]- Uncut
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Pharrell is just one of the 11 producers on a record that shows Kidjo's full range. [Jun 2026, p.28]- Uncut
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White Jesus Black Problems fizzes with indignation and exults in contradictions. [Aug 2022, p.25]- Uncut
Posted Jun 20, 2022 -
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Hiatt has rarely rocked harder than on Forever. Yet those moments are also smartly tempered by songs that sometimes flirt with '80s psychedelia ("Ghost Ship") and the kind of country-roots balladry with which she first made her name over a decade ago. [Jan 2025, p.34]- Uncut
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They’ve managed to make tonal inconsistencies feel like an actual consistency, rather than being a jarring and detracting experience. They’ve wrangled chaos into submission, and currently sound like no other band out there. [Aug 2022, p.34]- Uncut
- Posted Jul 7, 2022
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Cheat Codes finds Danger Mouse rolling with a new lyrical foil and this one feels like it could run and run. [Sep 2022, p.22]- Uncut
- Posted Aug 10, 2022
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The exhilarating collision of muscular breakbeats and ripe trance synths makes this one of the most enjoyable dance albums in recent memory. [Apr 2012, p.84]- Uncut
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Sounds Of The Universe is Depeche's most tune-packed and sonically adventurous album for over a decade. [May 2009, p.82]- Uncut
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Despite being her most superficially conventional work to date it may be her most slow-burning, with less of the bricolage charm that distinguished the earlier work. [May 2009, p.89]- Uncut
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De Souza's ability to balance the brute force of "Real Pain" and "Bad Dream" with something as sunny as "Hold U" is another reason to look forward to more of her shapeshifting. [Sep 2021, p.27]- Uncut
Posted Aug 23, 2021 -
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Given that their spectrum of nods and references runs from early Warp techno to bluegrass to Trout Mask Replica - horn-heavy freakouts like the full-bore "May Brigade" also demonstrate a kinship with The Comet Is Coming - the focus and coherence of Comradely Objects is even more impressive. [Dec 2022, p.28]- Uncut
Posted Nov 1, 2022