Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 12,038 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: 9,054 out of 12038
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Mixed: 2,910 out of 12038
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Negative: 74 out of 12038
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Shouty Japanese pop-punk quartet Chai guest on wonderfully bleepy “More Joy!”, Giorgio Moroder assists with the thrilling digital disco of “Beautiful Lies”, Bowie’s pianist Mike Garson guests on the elegant ballad “Falling”, while producer Erol Alkan adds a dancefloor-friendly sheen to proceedings. [Dec 2021, p.27]- Uncut
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The result is an album that displays Wolfe's versatility and ability to stir power from whispers as easily as she does howls. [Oct 2019, p.39]- Uncut
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Her most wide-ranging LP, Iconoclasts is also her most unwieldy, but she finds no small catharsis in letting the music overwhelm. [Review of the Year 2025, p.29]- Uncut
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Springtime isn’t some hopeful calling card made inside the industry machine. More infernal than vernal, it’s a document – of the coming together of three old hands and kindred spirits at a time when everything around them (and us) was coming apart. [Jan 2022, p.18]- Uncut
- Posted Dec 21, 2021
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The lyrical balance of wit and poignancy is still here... plus stronger melodies than we've heard from him in some time. [May 2005, p.96]- Uncut
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The sound of Ono gravely warbling "Imagine" at the close of Warzone may invite more ridicule from longtime haters. But believers in her musical vision will deem it very much of a piece with the boldness that marks these new renditions of many of her most furious songs. [Nov 2018, p.34]- Uncut
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The pram is in the hall, perhaps, but the art remains in the right place. [Nov 2012, p.85]- Uncut
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All in all, an interesting exercise, far less arch and shamateurish than Kisses On The Bottom. [Nov 2012, p.74]- Uncut
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It's one for the lonesome and broken-hearted, a great excuse to shut out the world and have a good cry. [Mar 2020, p.35]- Uncut
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Highlights dim somewhat, though, with the earnest and/or bombastic originals on the album's second half. [Jan 2015, p.78]- Uncut
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Despite its many-handedness, Rainbow Ends is an intensely personal vision. Indeed, it feels more like a companion piece to his great ’70s work than it does a postscript.- Uncut
- Posted Mar 30, 2016
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While it might have played better in 2003, it's a welcome return regardless. [Jun 2017, p.23]- Uncut
Posted Apr 26, 2017 -
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The playing is as eloquent as ever, dextrous but never overtly showy, while Richard Wats' voice delivers a pleasingly plaintive yearn. [Jun 2025, p.41]- Uncut
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Postcards From... represents a diary of five years of travel, though these 10 instrumentals are less reflective of the locations where they were conceived than the moods they inspired. [Jul 2016, p.70]- Uncut
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Pop-minded producers Dimitri Tikovoi and Dan Grech-Marguerat add a sheen to the Up The Bracket-style clatter, and unexpectedly stately arrangements. [Mar 2024, p.32]- Uncut
Posted Apr 10, 2024 -
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Sequenced into an almost seamless tapestry, most of these tracks flow along in a pleasant but unremarkable vein of propulsive, melodic, Hot Chip-style synth-pop. [Jun 2014, p.83]- Uncut
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Skelton's music has an ascetic quality that gives these tracks the sense of little rituals, pagan prayers brought blinking into the present. [Jan 2021, p.32]- Uncut
Posted Dec 3, 2020 -
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Aside from the pleasantly Britpoppy "50,000 Kilowatts" and "Drown All The Witches," This is fast, fun, and full of piss and vinegar than one might expect from such seasoned campaigners. [Dec 2014, p.71]- Uncut
Posted Nov 12, 2014 -
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It's less punky and psychedelic than anything they've done before, sounding more like a piece of self-conscious, well-crafted Americana by, say Richard Hawley or Alex Turner. [Feb 2019, p.30]- Uncut
Posted Jan 15, 2019 -
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The guitars sound grittier, the vocals bolder, the tempos just a bit faster, and her range much broader. [Mar 2017, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Feb 27, 2017 -
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This hypnotic blend of R&B-pop, luminous chillwave and whacked-out funk has its own piquancy. [Jul 2018, p.37]- Uncut
Posted May 24, 2018 -
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Mostly, familiarly sombre patterns of piano and string quartet dominate this lovely album. [Dec 2003, p.118]- Uncut
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Posted May 21, 2014 -
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The focus is on the sad-sounding uke and kohl-eyed vocals Simmons brings. [Nov 2020, p.34]- Uncut
Posted Sep 21, 2020 -
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Kane has now made what he has called a "grand, souly album". And at times his bold move pays off. [Feb 2022, p.31]- Uncut
Posted Jan 20, 2022 -
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A promising debut.... But across a full album the monotony that fuels their material threatens to snuff out any sparks. [Oct 2013, p.65]- Uncut
Posted Sep 5, 2013