Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,038 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:
12038 music reviews
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The band haven't sounded quite so spirited for some time. [Jun 2016, p.74]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On his third solo album, he's found a niche that suits him. [Jul 2016, p.81]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On the cautionary rockabilly of "Put Out The Fire" and low-slung raunch rap of "Ain't No Rhyme," he demonstrates a firm grasp of his essential strengths. [Jul 2016, p.70]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hermetically sealed but beautiful. [Jul 2013, p.80]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With only three of the eight songs clocking in at under five minutes, things can get a little ponderous, but clearly, our expectations are of little concern. [Aug 2019, p.29]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rhett Miller’s quartet crank up the cowpunk on the likes of “This World”, “Falling Down” and “Chased The Setting Sun”, but time, inevitably, has tempered their collective experience. [Jun 2024, p.37]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's something of the teenage Laura Marking about Rachel Sermanni. [Aug 2015, p.78]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dreamy found-sound interludes weave the whole thing together, demanding headphones and space. [Jan 2021, p.23]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Warmer and more upbeat than One Day, Another Day hangs around just long enough to make an impact. [Sep 2024, p.32]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A confident advance on 2012's Rhythm And Repose. [Oct 2015, p.77]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    “Son” and “Chernye Tsvety” feel a mite glossier than their earlier records, which had a smudged and lo-fi feel that gave them the quality of samizdat recordings. Still present and correct, though, is a sense of dislocation and alienation that’s positively Kafkaesque. [Oct 2024, p.37]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Another Country largely continues the same unashamedly nostalgic tone [of 2013's Time] [Dec 2015, p.79]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pernice's stately tastefulness, acoustic guitar studded with slide and steel, offers honed adult reflection, not excess. [Apr 2026, p.36]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The early-’60s soul-jazz strut belies the emotional purpose of career-spanning songs. Van’s voice and heart are unaccustomedly youthful and light seeking a West Country grail in “Avalon Of The Heart”. [Oct 2024, p.40]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The vibe is smart, slightly soiled. [Apr 2018, p.28]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It ["Hurtin' Or Healed"] is one of many moments on the record with a reflectively slow and gentle pace. But there are also subtle dynamic shifts and spikes throughout. [Nov 2023, p.32]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [An] ambitious, stylish left-turn. [Feb 2014, p.72]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The music here remains identifiably and intrinsically Wire. [Jun 2016, p.82]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their UPS lies in their assured threading of post-war archive material from StudioCanal, the BFI and old propaganda reels through Avalanches-style musical collages, [Jul 2013, p.80]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Hanging Valley blends whooshing motorik drums, a lyrical archness reminiscent of Wire, and a love for repetition that borders on the pathological. [Sep 2016, p.71]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's vulnerability in Chapman's lazily charming voice. [Sep 2015, p.78]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gibb's mixture of gay and Christian imagery is potent, and his vision of music as a grand communal experience is backed up by some memorable tunes. [Apr 2003, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Full of surprising songs with some cracking tunes that step far outside the punk-funk-grunge-metal formula of the Chili Peppers. [Mar 2004, p.99]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Choruses are big, lyrics purposes stripped, side and Hammond summoning rock's halcyon days. [Jun 2026, p.30]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It won't cure humanity's ills, but it does a fine job of rejuvenating a band entering its third decade. [Mar 2018, p.22]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The best thing about Coming Out Of The Fog, then, is that it's charged with possibility--paradoxically, by stripping Heumann's songs back to their core, simplifying and reducing, he's opened up a space in which the group could really ride into the sun. [Feb 2013, p.72]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The 73-year-old [is] in fine voice. [Aug 2014, p.71]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eighteen Hours of Static is a brutish rocker with its eyes in the gutter, reminiscent of The Jesus Lizard and Minor Threat in its scabrous mid-pace grind and occasional lurch up to hardcore speed. [Feb 2014, p.71]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    What Peace lack in originality, they make up for in charm. [Mar 2015, p.80]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bowlcut romantics will swoon for twinkly samba "Saveoursmiles" and "Love Me 'Til My Heart Stops" on his 10th LP, but as wistfulness gives way to despondency on "Rust" and an anguished take on West Side Story's "Somewhere," Stewart's idiosyncratic path feels like an increasingly lonely one. [Jul 2017, p.25]
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