Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 12,033 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 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9,049 out of 12033
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Mixed: 2,910 out of 12033
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Negative: 74 out of 12033
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Doubling down on the Deadhead-to-Lagos sound of “Frisco Beaver” may mean fewer surprises but the band’s loyal herd will no doubt savour the greater prominence of keyboard-driven freakouts and the greater fullness of grooves like the one that powers the mighty “Ouroboros”. [Nov 2024, p.36]- Uncut
Posted Oct 8, 2024 -
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For all its old-time vibes, a typically inspired record from Ferry. [Jan 2019, p.21]- Uncut
Posted Nov 30, 2018 -
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Dare's songwriting feels to be improving, even as he pares his music to the bare essentials. [Mar 2020, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2020 -
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Halo is occasionally guilty of tasteful conservatory restraint, but overall this is a richly, immersive headphones experience, a haunted sonic mansion of many chambers. [Nov 2023, p.29]- Uncut
Posted Sep 22, 2023 -
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Lyrical malaise is matched, as ever, by immaculately crafted electronic pop music that veers just as much into joy, elation and euphoria as it does melancholic introspection. [Sep 2022, p.24]- Uncut
Posted Aug 15, 2022 -
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A kind of Joshua Tree for the heavily pierced and mildly upset. [Dec 2004, p.140]- Uncut
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As with her best material, it's an album to lip-synch for your life to. [Oct 2021, p.31]- Uncut
Posted Nov 3, 2021 -
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Posted Jul 1, 2013 -
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Remastering these original recordings not only unmoors these songs from that particular era in rock history but also sharpens the band's attack and showcases each player's contribution to Adam's House cat's unruly sound. [Nov 2018, p.45]- Uncut
Posted Oct 2, 2018 -
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The album's palette feels broad, with electronics switching from twinkling and melodic to antagonistic industrial clangs. [Apr 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Feb 21, 2017 -
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[The songs are] stoked by a slow-burning intensity that peaks in controlled explosions, Marcus Gordon's voice their focus. [Jun 2016, p.79]- Uncut
Posted May 16, 2016 -
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Much of that atmosphere [from previous albums] remains on Captain Of None, thanks to whispered vocals and a focus on the courtly pluck of a viola da gamba. [Jun 2015, p.73]- Uncut
Posted Apr 29, 2015 -
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This discreet sense of procession is very much in keeping with Staples' MO on Arrhythmia, be it via the loops and beats of "A New Real" or the hushed calm of the exquisite "Memories Of Love." [Aug 2018, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Jul 13, 2018 -
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Posted Sep 3, 2020 -
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The best record he's made since 1996's Casanova, it's one of those rare instances when an artist retraces their steps and successfully locates what made them interesting in the first place. [May 2004, p.102]- Uncut
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Where the haunted vocals and atmospheric production remain, it's in service of something bolder, more dynamic. [Jan 2022, p.22]- Uncut
Posted Jan 11, 2022 -
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Squint hard and it could be Beck’s Midnite Vultures run through a flanger pedal and recorded on a Maxell C60, but that’s no bad thing. [Oct 2024, p.34]- Uncut
Posted Aug 20, 2024 -
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Sole's fast and fluid rhymes deal with a wide range of socio-political concerns, but are saved from sounding like diatribes by his sly wit. [Apr 2005, p.114]- Uncut
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Wood is in his element, delivering needle sharp licks and belting the classic, while a passing Imelda May adds some serious sizzle to "We Wee Hours." [Dec 2019, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Nov 15, 2019 -
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Inside Problems is a rather less meticulous and more spirited band set that examines the questions that keep him awake at night, in ear-snagging songs shot through with ’70s country rock, chamber pop, Balkan and Appalachian folk and Tin Pan Alley eccentricity. [Jul 2022, p.23]- Uncut
Posted Jun 3, 2022 -
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Whatever meanings are to be gleaned here, Bleed Out still rates as one of the band’s hardest-rocking outings. [Sep 2022, p.28]- Uncut
Posted Aug 19, 2022 -
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Andy Gill's guitar work is still distinctive and angular on tracks like "Toreador" and "Don't Ask Me," but the band seem intent on lending the old with the new. [May 2019, p.23]- Uncut
Posted Apr 13, 2019 -
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Though sometimes a tad one-dimensional, at its best this music is as warm, sad and effortlessly beautiful as a midsummer sunset. [Apr 2014, p.69]- Uncut
Posted Apr 9, 2014 -
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It never quite matches the promise of the excellent opening half. [Jun 2015, p.75]- Uncut
Posted Apr 29, 2015 -
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It's a(nother) set of hushed, impressionistic tracks tapping the British folk tradition, digital psychedelia, Talk Talk and Japanese death poems. [Aug 2019, p.36]- Uncut
Posted Jun 21, 2019 -
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Why only eight songs are included isn't clear, but it's academic when the trio sound this energised. [Mar 2023, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Jan 20, 2023 -
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They can still surprise, too, with tinges of organ psychedelia, anxious time-signatures and, on the sweet acoustic reverie of "Salt Water", evocative found sounds. [Dec 2025, p.29]- Uncut
Posted Oct 28, 2025 -
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A band that long ago perfected their sound, such collaborations rather suit them. [Apr 2013, p.68]- Uncut
Posted Aug 12, 2013 -
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Tunde Adebimpe's gorgeous voice guarantees quasi-spiritual uplift even in their more obvious moments, but there are a couple of wild cards. [Dec 2014, p.81]- Uncut
Posted Nov 13, 2014 -
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Closer "Underdog", a stripped-back self-portrait of a striver still "trying hard [to] leave a mark", provides an intimate coda to Harwood's depiction of his teeming inner world, a hermetically sealed ocean of emotion. [Jul 2022, p.27]- Uncut
Posted May 20, 2022