Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 12,033 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:
12033 music reviews
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A previously unreleased version of Dylan’s “She Belongs To Me” mesmerisingly set to the narcotic pulse of The Velvet Underground’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”, a take on country tearjerker “Oh Lonesome Me”, weirdly reminiscent of Leonard Cohen. .... The set ends with Ferry’s first new song in a decade ["Star"]. .... Its smouldering brilliance sounds less a postscript to everything it follows than a new beginning, Ferry nearing 80, still alert to the sound of tomorrow calling. [Dec 2024, p.90]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take “Breakfast On The Train”, among the most involving songs this storied chronicler of the heart has ever penned. .... The other seven tracks on this self-contained album are no slouches either. [Jun 2025, p.32]
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This ensemble, particularly the dynamic front line of Henderson and Shaw, didn't last very long, making this impeccable-sounding set of stone-cold Silver classics an even more crucial addition to the historic record. [Review of the Year 2025, p.44]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Indispensable, but that’s no surprise.
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This release overcompensates handsomely, delivering 48 sharp, gorgeous-sounding missives that document ensemble brilliance and Petty’s chiming, hook-happy American-everykid songwriting.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Comes awfully close to the masterwork he so clearly gunning to make. [Jun 2020, p.38]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet... demonstrates both purpose and renewed vigour. [Jul 2022, p.25]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite remarkable playing and energy that charges through much of this record, it’s also contemplative, varied and tender at times, with the gentle sway of tracks like “Takoba” hitting as hard as the noise and fury of “Sousoume Tamachek”. [May 2024, p.38]
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    These 11 tracks, recorded at various locations, also confirm he's more than a neo-classical specialist. [Dec 2013, p.68]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    LSD
    LSD features some of Smith's finest writing. .... You couldn't ask for much better. [Nov 2025, p.31]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Savage Young Du stands as some testament to his [Grant Hart's] wild creativity, and the protean energy of the band that first brought his songs to the world. [Dec 2017, p.34]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Klaus Dinger’s Apache beat and Michael Rother’s steel reels of guitar still have elemental power. ... The National, and Stephen Morris (of New Order) and Gabe Gurnsey, acquit themselves adequately, but Neu!’s music is so singular, there’s next to no point trying to take the material on, even in tribute form. [Oct 2022, p.46]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Z
    [A] triumphant resurrection. [Nov 2005, p.96]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While the full deluxe treatment might not life Don't Tell A Soul all the way to "lost classic" status, it at least fleshes out an underappreciated chapter of The Replacements' messy saga. [Nov 2019, p.42]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    What strikes you, above all, is the innocence and affection in their breezy blues, at odds with the heavy weather White has made of his post-Stripes career. [Feb 2021, p.49]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Darkly entertaining, thoughtful and a little threatening, St. Vincent fizzes with enthusiasm and the uncontrollable strangeness of life. [Mar 2014, p.74]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's the freshest, most exciting and far-reaching left-field album in years. [Jun 2003, p.102]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Neon Golden often comes on like a radical update of New Order's Lowlife period, where mournful guitar songs are integrated into a mesh of clicks, pops, glitches and samples. [Mar 2003, p.96]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Kiwanuka is loaded with memorable songs, but the best way to experience them is by listening to the album from start to finish. [Nov 2019, p.26]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As bootlegs from the period have shown, there's a good three hours of stuff out there from these and the so-called "Brown Star Sessions" for Clear Spot. On the fourth disc here, you can find the pick of it. [Dec 2014, p.85]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Love And Theft was quite unlike any other pop album--apart, that is, from Modern Times, its direct and audacious sequel. [Sep 2006, p.72]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In every respect, the performance captured here is as raw and un-redacted as the original record. ... What times. [Jun 2018, p.42]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exhaustive in the best way possible, emphasising the logistical nightmares of hosting such a big event but also putting listeners right there in the stadium. [Apr 2023, p.41]
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Remarkably, the world they create together never curdles into sentimentality. ... Wednesday turn that stabbing pain into triumphant rock'n'roll. [May 2023, p.39]
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Serves as both a potent primer on the traumas and triumphs of life in a not-so-racial America and an enthralling demonstration of her playful musical sensibility. [Jun 2019, p.37]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It is music whose scope, erudition and vitriol makes everything else in this year of exceptional musical timidity seem puny. [Nov 2003, p.106]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Includes an epic live show at the Montreux Jazz Festival, where Bowie played songs from Heathen alongside strong selection of hits followed by Low in its atmospheric entirety. [Oct 2025, p.41]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ana Kravanja, Iztok Koren and Samo Kutin plays sympathetically, but they're also careful enough not to homogenise, each voice finding its own space in which to speak. [Dec 2025, p.36]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crackles with a wisecracking energy. [Aug 2020, p.36]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When Nevermind rocks, it does so extremely. [Oct 2011, p.101]
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