Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,988 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:
11988 music reviews
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    With echoes of Rickie Lee Jones and Gram Parsons at times, it all feels deceptively effortless. [Aug 2025, p.39]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Thoughtful sixth album, which sees the songwriter wrestle with the growing challenges of life as she enters her early thirties. [Jul 2025, p,27]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They lurch with satisfying abandon through funereal Slint-like post-rock to unashamedly slovenly pixies-ish riffs to splenetic blasts of screaming hardcore and staccato math-rock scrapes, as Zak Bowker intermittently makes his strangled screams heard above the maelstrom. [Jun 2025, p.41]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The musicians' off-the-cuff interaction animates cartoonish songs like the boisterous "Burgundy Suit" and the woozy "Sharktooth", but Mccaughey's flights of fancy occasionally tumble into relatable coherence. [Jun 2025, p.35]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eight tracks range from menacing, acid rain drone to jagged rhythmic gut-punches. Here they summon the raw energy of The Young Gods in their prime, hobbling through grey ruined cities that have dominated our news-screens in recent times. [Jul 2025, p.33]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pramuk takes listeners on a rich inner-space odyssey. [Aug 2025, p.37]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The result is a rich, expansive yet considered album of indie rock meets shoegaze. [Aug 2025, p.32]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I Quit is at its best when the trio juice up old tactics with a jolt of the new. [Aug 2025, p.31]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Revelatory. .... The set offers great insight into Springsteen's creative process. [Aug 2025, p.50]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Field recordings, ASMR, personal effects and various metals combine to conjure some magical moments. [Jul 2025, p.31]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A bumpy ride overall, but rewarding. [Jul 2025, p.37]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    American Romance is agreeably heart-on-sleeve. [Jul 2025, p.31]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Classy debut. .... Leaves you in no doubt who carries a great deal of weight in Ride. [Jul 2025, p.33]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lucy Gooch's early life as a chorister feeds into Desert Window's beauteous soundscapes, looping her gentle soprano voice over gauzy layers of synths in a seamless shift of classical ambient, jazz and dream-folk textures. [Jul 2025, p.28]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Every bit as special as promised. [Jul 2025, p.29]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their fourth album is authentic in the resistant lyrics of Yildirim originals. [May 2025, p.39]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    2t2
    An album that is as genuinely moving as it is pulsing and hypnotic. [Jul 2025, p.37]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wolfe's voice prominent on the shimmering "Hopelessly At Ease" and tremolo-bathed "Shhh", recalling Julee Cruise;s otherworldly work. .... Elsewhere, there's an edge. [Jul 2025, p.27]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This LP is accordingly freeform and exultant. [Jul 2025, p.29]
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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]
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There are rum choices (Ex-Easter Island Head, Craven Faults), generic pumpers (Sally C, Shanti Celeste, Daybreakers) and moody mates (Mogwai, The Twilight Sad, Deftones' Chino Moreno), while surprising highlights include Daniel Avery's "Drone:Nodrone" widescreen prowler. [Jul 2025, p.26]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An ambitious collaborative affair showcasing female and non-binary musicians. [Jun 2025, p.33]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The covers from less celebrated acts support the premise most intriguingly. [Jul 2025, p.49]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its heady and timeless distillation of dub gospel, disco excursions, molten psych rock and soulful swagger sounds more like back to the future. [Jul 2025, p.37]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Resulting in a most welcome return for this singular artist. [Jun 2025, p.42]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Eight lively compositions that strike a sometimes uneasy balance between structural rigour and woolier, woozier inclinations. [Jul 2025, p.29]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Talkin To The Trees finds Young largely preoccupied with matters closer to home. “Family Life” begins as an open-hearted acoustic address to his children – until a jarring reference to his grandchildren, “who I can’t see”. He follows this with “Dark Mirage”, a glowering ball of knotted noise. .... The mood shifts with “First Fire Of Winter”, a hymn to domestic happiness in Colorado with Daryl Hannah and the first of three gorgeous country tracks on the album. [Jul 2025, p.28]
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The addition of Chad Kelly's orchestral arrangements to the band's initial recordings strikes decisive new ground. [Jul 2025, p.30]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remembering Now is the deeply heartening sound of an artist recognising himself. [Jul 2025, p.34]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's rich in moods and textures, variously lean and percussive, euphoric, foreboding and melodically vibrant. [Jun 2025, p.31]
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