Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,017 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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:
12017 music reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Probably the most potent album she's made since Broken English. [Nov 2004, p.102]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This solo debut sees him working within a very limited sonic palette--doomy, minor-key constructions featuring distorted rhythm guitar riffs played over a grid of '80s synths and drum machines. These can be effective when paired with grim lyrics of small-town realism. [Oct 2019, p.33]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The bleak but beautiful moments here represent a suave, dignified coda for an artist whose work never quite got the hugs it deserved. [Mar 2022, p.31]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A baggy sprawl in places, but generally rewarding. [Dec 2023, p.36]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another dazzling yet soulless smorgasbord of bold, modern pop composition that mixes the latest AI with more old-school contributions from Lee Renaldo and Jim O'Rourke. [Nov 2023, p.31]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A fashionably unruly racket. [Mar 2005, p.100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beauty & Ruin falls short as a masterpiece but it quietly lets the handbrake off on Mould's creativity. [Jul 2014, p.79]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maximum Balloon isn't intended to carry the emotional and cultural weight of a TV On The Radio release, but it's a charming diversion that bodes well for Dear Science's follow-up, not to mention whichever artist is smart enough to hire Sitek as their producer next. [Sep 2010, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Provides a gentle but subtle introduction to the sometimes onerous world of avant-techno. [Apr 2003, p.122]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the time we reach "Surripere" we could be listening to a toughened-up Aphex Twin, poignant harmonies battling against oblique but splintering beats. [May 2003, p.92]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's mind-expanding, punk psychedelia. [Sep 2001, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite the lacerating electro-glam of "Total All Out Water" and "Sheez Minie," it's melodic as hell. [Nov 2002, p.121]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a less daring enterprise overall. [May 2004, p.106]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A successful fusion of tradition and modernism.
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a dynamic soundbed for her arresting singing. [May 2015, p.77]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For the most part, this is a short, sharp and generally satisfying voyage into Ash's heady past. [Jul 2015, p.71]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A complex, powerful crossover record that still manages to feel awesomely authentic. ... The English-and French-lanugae cuts are less successful. [Apr 2017, p.25]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The results may comprise the most finely distilled example of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's deconstruction of heavy riffage, with each of these tracks demonstrating the infinite varieties of fuzz and rumble that exist within a single mighty note. [Nov 2019, p.33]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The enigmatic ensemble head out on taut, Teutonic disco manoeuvres on "Dancing In Transit" before making like a feral 808 State as they imagine Raoul Duke and Don Quixote in conversation on "Raoul". [Apr 2025, p.35]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They've yet to match the live genius of the [Arcade] Fire, but their album's got much more life than their static stage shows. [Aug 2006, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For the first half of The Republic he extracts effervescent hisses and trills from his gear, fashioning a fragrant if unremarkable video score, while in the final section he lets loose, relatively speaking. [Mar 2015, p.80]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Surprises may be fewer this time around but, with their warmth and grace, "Wanted Never Asked" and "Filigree" are two of several songs here that rank with Cabic's finest. [Dec 2019, p.35]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Religious Knives' proto-PiL, art-punk minimalism and addiction to the motorik groove that mark them out as different. [Nov 2008, p.117]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wilco (the album) picks up more or less where 2007’s mellow and soulful "Sky Blue Sky" left off, but subtly expands that record’s parameters.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thankfully, they rewire this timeless aesthetic with more open-minded affection than stifling reverence. [Apr 2016, p.73]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Inspired, frustrating, wayward, indulgent, funny, heartfelt and eclectic, taken in one sitting it's far too much, like gorging on the most excessive turkey dinner with all the trimmings. [Jan 2013, p.97]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The softer edges and new accessibility only makes the fury and dread eerily heavier. [Jan 2026, p.35]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amazingly, it somehow avoids the drivel of The Darkness by sheer gleeful abandon. [Jun 2006, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full of sound and furry. [Sep 2013, p.89]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This set combines recordings from a number of indie EPs, and while the ensemble always combines a bemused, tongue-in-cheek quality with a rock'n'roll fanatic's mindset, Dungeon Golds spinning out smart, graceful pop hooks and hard, Dukes-Of-Stratosphear-type psych--gazes hard at mortality. [Apr 2015, p.80]
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