Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,035 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:
12035 music reviews
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While Pigs x7 couldn't get much heavier, they sound noticeably angrier on this follow-up to 2020's Viscerals, adding lyrical themes of self-loathing and misanthropy into the mix. [Mar 2023, p.32]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wonky charmer of a third album. [Apr 2022, p.31]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Utterly self-contained, 10cc's collision of Brill Building Craft, Beatles hooks and proggish daring still sounds, for the most part at least, curiously modern. [Jan 2013, p.89]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This rock'n'roll album falls far short of Little Ricard's atomic excitement in a genre here showing its age, but 78-year-old Van sounds youthly eager, even sensual in between the hushed female harmonies and honky-tonk piano of "You Are My Sunshine". [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His obvious poetic and melodic gifts have seldom sounded so compelling. [May 2003, p.108]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [The songs] all feel very much of a piece thanks to the coherence fostered by Mitski's high but agile voice and wry, self-deprecating humour. [Sep 2018, p.35]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They may not go out with a bang on this occasion, but Cheap trick's capacity to surprise prevails. [Dec 2025, p.28]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's frequently lush and lovely. [Dec 2004, p.150]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Significantly more wonderful than it is frightening. [Oct 2017, p.24]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Haze is a good go at [spontaneity and sense of fun], maintaining the propulsion while tying songs to sharp pop hooks. [Apr 2017, p.37]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Delicately powerful stuff. [Aug 2020, p.27]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An entertaining oddity which manages to recall both Bobby Gillespie and (late) Julian Cope in its reverence for over-the-top rock'n'roll excess. [May 2014, p.78]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This one feels a bit brighter, more pop, than usual, though the Stooges lift of "Some Unknown Reason" is dankly bloodied. [Sep 2019, p.24]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tracks such as "Nihilist Abyss," "Fatal Gift" and "Minefield Of Memory" grapple with the "deceptive deal" of experience, while her elliptical melodies recall Elliott Smith in Figure 8 mode. [Oct 2017, p.30]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kill The Wolf is another ruralist fantasy furnished with tales of witchcraft and maypoles. [Aug 2013, p.67]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pere Ubu's punchiest effort since 1998's Pennsylvania. [Nov 2016, p.35]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Nevertheless, for all its omissions and repetitions, the sheer scale of this archive still feels like an exemplary work of preservation. [Sep 2012, p.92]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The album's meandering latter stages drag a little, but overall Cinder provides a grand musical landscape. [Nov 2005, p.114]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Many Moons is studied, but graciously so. [Nov 2015, p.73]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Here, on their fourth LP, the duo--teaming up again with Dave Fridmann--appear to have entered some weird, parallel 1983. [Apr 2018, p.30]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though their ongoing debt to the Krautrock canon remains evident, their stoner brew is now heavily spiced with influences drawn from Afrobeat, funk and space-rock. [Jan 2014, p.72]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    All she lacks is a really killer song. [Apr 2015, p.72]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [Hate For Sale returns her] to the totemic sounds of the early Pretenders albums, trusted and familiar territories. [Aug 2020, p.31]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hardy's voice is considerably less breathy than in her '60s and '70s heyday, though it now has a pleasing steeliness to it. [May 2013, p.72]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Canadian Colter Wall is just 21, but in delivering his rich imagery of railroads, frauleins and codeine dreams, he sounds closer to 71. [Jul 2017, p.40]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Remote Part is Idlewild Mark II--sleeker, bolder, better. [Oct 2002, p.107]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As you would expect from a Daptone act--musicianship is uniformly excellent. [Oct 2017, p.24]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's an ensemble work, but the tremulous "An Old Peasant Like Me" is especially affecting. [Sep 2013, p.87]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wildflower is more satisfying, less self-consciously searching for radio-friendliness [than C'Mon C'mon]. [Nov 2005, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The spacious, Neil Young-ian rumbling of the title track and the bulked-up power-pop of "Spiked Flower" both see co-founders Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge venture beyond the template of Raise and Mezcal Head without making the faithful worry they've ditched their distortion pedals. [Feb 2019, p.34]
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