Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,991 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:
11991 music reviews
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A final suite of three songs--"Wait For Her," "Oceans Apart" and "Part OF Me Died"--offer a more intimate perspective; a warm, optimistic coda to Waters' apocalyptic reveries. [Jul 2017, p.40]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The trio deliver devotional, soulful, throat-reddening gospel on Move Upstairs, where the odd rough note only adds to the one-take authenticity. [Jul 2017, p.26]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The follow-up [to Absent Fathers] is an even more impressive progression. Marriage and impending fatherhood bring both focus and exuberance to Earle's seventh album. [Jul 2017, p.28]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The evening set is more dynamic. [Jun 2017, p.23]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soulfire is a portrait of the E Street Band guitarist as a rock'n'roll renaissance man. [Jul 2017, p.32]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Tim Burgess'] boyish voice sounds warmer than ever, too, while Johnny Marr and Paul Weller are among guests fortifying his band's fluid grooves. [Jul 2017, p.26]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For the first time, Toth wrote the melodies before the lyrics, the result is a set of lush, free-born soundscapes, yet without any diminution in his narrative powers. [Jul 2017, p.40]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their treacly heaviness still courses through pop cuts. [Jul 2017, p.23]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    True to form, Love And War contains its share of impeccably wrought arena-country singalongs, like "Last Time For Everything" and "One Beer Can," along with the occasional bite at expectations, and the hands that feed him. [Jul 2017, p.36]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DAMN. is a showcase for a rapper at his peak, blessed with a flow, nuance and unostentatious authority that currently feels unparalleled. [Jul 2017, p.32]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From A Room, Volume One manages to pull off that rare trick of sounding both fresh and familiar, as dauntless as it is consoling. [Jul 2017, p.28]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, this conservative album wastes his eight-member backing band, who have much more range and power than these songs would indicate. [Jul 2017, p.26]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A truly futuristic slice of R&B. [Jun 2017, p.30]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These are thoroughly modern songs--and very much Harding's own. [Jun 2017, p.30]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a less scrappy approach on this album, a glossier production with more realised and experimental offerings. [Jun 2017, p.28]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A more layered dreampop with faux-epic tendencies. [Apr 2017, p.30]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While sticking well within their comfort zone, electro-pop veterans Vince Clarke and Andy Bell sound a little more restrained and reflective than usual on their 17th studio album. [Jun 2017, p.28]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The new songs possess an engaging spareness and intimacy while still making room for such guests as Sharon Van Etten. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though sometimes still prone to cliche, in his finest work--such as the salient balladry of "Bad Dreams" and "Silent Movie"--LaFarge confronts roiling uncertainty and chaos, to great effect. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nathan Williams and his brat-punks have reverted to the DIY route--surely the natural seedbed for their scattergun sonic brainstorms. [Jun 2017, p.38]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The septuagenarian reintroduces himself as a lively and supremely compelling singer. [Jun 2017, p.24]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
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    II mixes sweeping, retro-futuristic synth-pop with brazenly outre guitar shredding and motorik beats to savvy--and emotionally sincere--effect. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The set never feels like adapted poetry. [Jun 2017, p.28]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jeffes has safeguarded the Orchestra's broad, eccentric range of instruments, and shifts effortlessly from the drones of "Control 1 (Interlude)" to the good-natured, pastoral pleasures of "Ricercar." [Jun 2017, p.37]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spry, antic and engaging. [Jun 2017, p.34]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This collection makes clear that there are still many more stories to tell, more beauty and evil left to uncover. [Jun 2017, p.40]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The beauty of Coltrane's work, and the way she could transform a personal system of belief into the highest accessible art, is striking. [Jun 2017, p.44]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fistfuls of dirty riff'n'rolll with a side order of voodoo and psych. [Jun 2017, p.30]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bathed in a languorous mood of intimate romance, it's served without schmaltz and only occasionally flirts with the soporific. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stratton's accessible but deep-rooted approach embraces a barbed undertow in opener "Light Blue," while dashing arrangements--slivers of stringed wonder deployed to resonate effect on "Vanishing Class"--illuminates his songwriting craft. [Jun 2017, p.37]
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