Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 11,991 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 |
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Positive: 9,011 out of 11991
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Mixed: 2,906 out of 11991
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Negative: 74 out of 11991
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Posted Apr 6, 2017 -
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It's a svelte, consummately accomplished change, although Burnett's reliably polished, sometimes even laidback, settings allow plenty of room for grit and sweat. [Apr 2017, p.32]- Uncut
Posted Apr 5, 2017 -
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Their 10th album in 25 years underlines their skill at combining heavy guitar solos with gauzy pop melodies and blizzards of noise. [Apr 2017, p.25]- Uncut
Posted Apr 4, 2017 -
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Here, the likes of "Call Upon The Fire" and "Commanche Moon" continue to mines, as, say Earth do, a folk essence of melody and lore. [Apr 2017, p.23]- Uncut
Posted Apr 4, 2017 -
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The results are stiff at times, the LP overlong, but Branch's country songwriting sounds all the more compelling and idiosyncratic in this setting. [May 2017, p.25]- Uncut
Posted Apr 3, 2017 -
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They've mastered the basics, but still have miles to go. [May 2017, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Apr 3, 2017 -
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Animating even the slowest songs on the album is a sense of play and possibility, the realisation that these musicians can shake off the dust and still surprise us. [May 2017, p.36]- Uncut
Posted Apr 3, 2017 -
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Kirk's fondness for gloomier realms prevails, especially in his noteworthy wordplay and on the ominously noisy title track. [May 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Apr 3, 2017 -
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Not so much a fusion as a cross-cultural collision. [May 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Apr 3, 2017 -
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A record that yields a procession of hidden treasures. [May 2017, p.38]- Uncut
Posted Mar 31, 2017 -
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Although What If's nine instrumental tracks are heavily rhythmic, this is a refreshingly gridless and affecting music, with serrated clicks and muted arpeggios wandering organically in and out of time. [Apr 2017, p.30]- Uncut
Posted Mar 31, 2017 -
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Bunker Funk runs along more heavily rhythmic lines, without sacrificing a single joule of energy. [May 2017, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Mar 31, 2017 -
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These three sprawling tracks were recorded in the pair's Bushwick apartment, but boast both breadth and startling virtuosity, sparkling guitar-drums jams blown wide with reverb. [May 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Mar 31, 2017 -
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Hitchcock sounds more energised and vibrant than he has in decades. [May 2017, p.31]- Uncut
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Posted Mar 30, 2017 -
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Age seems to have deepened his poetic faculties, these rootsy narratives scarred by experience, but all the richer for it. Crowell's best since The Houston Kid. [Apr 2017, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Mar 30, 2017 -
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There's nothing quite as genuinely exciting as [the title track's] Aphex-meets-Bee-Gees disco, but its unorthodox elements are sprinkled across the album. [May 2017, p.32]- Uncut
Posted Mar 30, 2017 -
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Unsurprisingly, after nearly 30 years their hang-loose attitude is now tempered with a little socio-political reflection, although "Black Eyes"--a stomping, sown-dirty homage to hedonism--is a standout. [May 2017, p.25]- Uncut
Posted Mar 29, 2017 -
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Patchily exhilarating, but the blasts lack freshness. [Apr 2017, p.25]- Uncut
Posted Mar 29, 2017 -
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[Hames] combines the stately emotionalism of '60s torch singers with the all-caps exuberance of a particularly sharp garage-rock band and the eloquent twang of late-period Replacements. [Apr 2017, p.30]- Uncut
Posted Mar 29, 2017 -
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Undertow resembles free jazz noiseniks let loose in a junkyard, cooking up a mood of creeping dread with radioactive electronics. [Apr 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Mar 29, 2017 -
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Not everything works on this bloated 18-tracker, but enough hits the target. [May 2017, p.35]- Uncut
Posted Mar 29, 2017 -
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Overall, it's a long, strange ride, and Joshua judges ruefully. [May 2017, p.18]- Uncut
Posted Mar 29, 2017 -
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The default setting for Venn's debut album is a kind of punky Krautrock, all finger-bleeding ostinato basslines and hypnotic beats wreathed in doomy electronics. [Apr 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Mar 28, 2017 -
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For all its easy charms, Triplicate labours its point to the brink of overkill. After five albums' worth of croon toons, this feels like a fat full stop on a fascinating chapter. [May 2017, p.22]- Uncut
Posted Mar 28, 2017 -
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"Horns Surround Me" and "Feel You" may lack the intricately orchestrated arrangements of their recorded incarnations, but they're no less thoughtful. [Apr 2017, p.32]- Uncut
Posted Mar 28, 2017 -
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What is new is the extensive use for the first time of the Kora, a lyrical embellishment that slots dreamily into the melodic elegance of the classic Baobab shuffle. It's good to have them back. [May 2017, p.37]- Uncut
Posted Mar 28, 2017 -
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Touching new folk-rock compositions sit alongside spirited arrangements of trad songs and sturdy instrumentals. [May 2017, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Mar 27, 2017 -
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"Forever & A Day" sounds suspiciously like a love song, "Sleep On The Wing" has one of those gorgeous Colin Newman vocal performances. Otherwise, it's ominous thrum, insistent rumble and circular tunes that hide menace beneath their logic. [May 2017, p.40]- Uncut
Posted Mar 27, 2017 -
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You Had Me At Goodbye finds her experimenting with musical form, be it on chamber-folk eulogy "When The Roses Bloom Again," "Windmill Crusader's" skittish electro-pop or the droll "Antiseptic Greeting." There are moments of minimal charm here, too. [Apr 2017, p.26]- Uncut
Posted Mar 23, 2017