Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,033 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:
12033 music reviews
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rice is at his best when indulging his penchant for punk bubblegum. [Dec 2013, p.71]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Barker's fourth album has a clean, rootsy feel. [Aug 2013, p.67]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [John Tejada] maintains his penchant for melancholic, Detroit-inspired tech-house better suited to the home than club environment. [Feb 2015, p.84]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A great leap backwards. [Feb 2014, p.80]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Organic set of gorgeously gilded songs which English folk sensibility mixes with the freewheeling spirit of Californian Canyon rock. [Mar 2024, p.35]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's an effortless clip... that suggests renewed confidence. [Mar 2005, p.93]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It revolves around bleak, squalling repetitions and a mood of wretched abjection. But Gira's voice has weathered grandly. [Sep 2012, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An intriguingly diverse "double" (well, 53 minutes) album. [Jan 2019, p.25]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Well-crafted compositions. [Jan 2019, p.31]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Selections from wake Up The nation and Sonic Kick stand out, especially the former's "No Tears To Cry" and the latter's "That Dangerous Age", but it's the times when he turns back the clock or nods to his influences that make the deepest impression. [May 2026, p.51]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    With Suicide's spooked primitivism and Depeche Mode's throbbing anguish as blueprints, Sartain's synthesised shock treatment is a compelling segue from his spartan rockin' past. [Mar 2016, p.78]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This follow-up feels almost like business as usual. Luckily, there are a clutch of standout songs. [May 2016, p.75]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The malevolent, Stooges-and-Suicide-styled noise of their definitive Blood Red River is less apparent, but attitudinal chops and unpredictability abound. [Sep 2021, p.33]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At low levels, this record will work nicely as aural wallpaper for cocktail parties, but turn it on and slap on a pair of headphones and the effect is transporting. [May 2012, p.69]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The duo's lesser songs may not stray from a familiar pocket of retro-soul, but it's a very fine pocket nonetheless. [Jul 2019, p.24]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aching pop-soul bathed in nostalgic warmth of another era. ... Yet Atkins is also possessed of a singular, torchy voice that floods these songs with genuine fervour. [Aug 2017, p.25]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dark Days And Canapes feels both bleaker and more robust than [earlier works]. [Sep 2017, p.28]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is essentially the same clutch of B-sides, outtakes and live tracks you'll already own if you shelled out for 2002's Slanted And Enchanted (Luxe and Reduxe) edition, sans the mother album itself. [Sep 2015, p.94]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A strong set of big band compositions. [Nov 2017, p.23]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The addition of EDM and hip-hop elements to the arsenal have a reinvigorating effect. [Dec 2016, p.37]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The arrangements are light and percussive, and Polwart's singing is bell-like. [Jan 2018, p.24]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On “Tangerine” and “Fuzz Jam”, The Lazy Eyes strike an appealing balance between Beachwood Sparks-calibre prettiness and their gnarlier, squigglier impulses. [Apr 2022, p.31]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mostly it's ambient background music in search of a movie, but standout moments include the sinister Marricone guitars on "The Prairie" and the distorted tablas and minimalistic vibraphones on "Damascene Slap." [Mar 2020, p.33]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This fifth studio release is no less diverse, hitting hardest with the Woody Guthrie-alluding title track, a raging blast of rap-hop that addresses prejudice and intolerance in the Trump era. More frequently, though, Clark immerses himself in funk and soul. [Mar 2019, p.26]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These songs insinuate via a vaguely vintage sound that recall both Jonathan Donahue's spangled dreaminess and the (s)weary brio of Father John Misty. [Apr 2025, p.29]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Often as challenging as Justin Vernon's recent work. [Sep 2020, p.31]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    When she's raised the stakes so high, anything less than the reinvention of music comes as a disappointment. [Jan 2003, p.122]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's nothing here that is likely to offend or amaze but it's a classy affair from start to finish. [Jun 2014, p.79]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As enchanting as it is, Moon Saloon can inevitably feel overstuffed, such that Adams may best succeed in the album's least ornate moments. [Sep 2016, p.69]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though the more sweeping likes of “Black Heart” evoke the menace and grandeur of Angelo Badalamenti’s scores for David Lynch, there’s an appealing degree of rattle, clatter and noodling elsewhere as Wallumrød and Silvola commune with the spirits of Harry Partch and Charles Mingus. [Oct 2024, p.41]
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