Uncut's Scores

  • Music
For 11,991 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:
11991 music reviews
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Acoustic Recordings best illustrates, though, is a consistency to White's songwriting that has endured through his myriad projects, even as his music has swung unpredictably between playfulness and intensity. [Oct 2016, p.48]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This remastered version certainly sounds clearer than the muddy original. ... As far as the songs, go, there are a few surprises, just some frenzied romps through the band's greatest hits at this point. [Oct 2016, p.47]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Cosmonaut is as stylishly warped as ever. [Oct 2016, p.35]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's an assured and heartfelt work built carefully around McMorrow's falsetto vocals. [Oct 2016, p.35]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs benefit from a sharper focus than the quartet ever achieved before. [Oct 2016, p.37]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album sounds like one good idea stretched out to a meandering and repetitive 40 minutes. [Oct 2016, p.32]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His style is scraggly yet sophisticated, ranging boldly from country drones to rambunctious rural ragas. [Oct 2016, p.26]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's a sprawling affair. [Oct 2016, p.26]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A set of eloquently sombre, Americana songs heavy on pedal and lap-steel. [Jul 2016, p.79]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's solemn stuff. [Oct 2016, p.39]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is one of his richer projects: a breezy Laurel Canyon love-in. [Oct 2016, p.28]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kin
    Kin still sounds like the work of a clued-up hipster who doesn't particularly like the grimly effective pop songs that she's able to write. [Oct 2016, p.40]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The material, largely chosen from recent releases, sounds primal and immense. [Aug 2016, p.83]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The five numbered tracks of Trouble total a monolithic 82 minutes and trace heaving faultlines of their own making. [Sep 2016, p.73]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    D.A.R.K's serviceable but derivative electronica frames an unremarkable marshalling of collective talents. [Sep 2016, p.73]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This LP leans towards narrative, rather than racking out kits, but its ambition is very welcome. [Oct 2016, p.25]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The trouble with studiousness is its tendency to inhibit invention, and such is the case here on their third long-player. [Oct 2016, p.23]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are some great passages of live-wire electronica, but more often it's strangely lacking any aura or elemental spark. [Oct 2016, p.39]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An ambitious, perceptive set. [Oct 2016, p.35]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a rich offering crammed with songs that are heavy with atmosphere and humour, all wrapped round a voice that demands attention. [Oct 2016, p.26]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Her darkest effort yet, a harowing chronicle of a woman barely keeping herself together. It's also her liveliest effort yet--not to mention her most confidently diverse. [Jul 2016, p.71]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The result is an assured, mostly instrumental album with freeform jazz as its guiding imperative. [Oct 2016, p.40]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His wrinkled brogue--warm, pithy, occasionally fluttering to a falsetto--is a thing of understated beauty in itself, framed in folk-shanty arrangements that make telling use of strings and bagpipes. [Oct 2016, p.32]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kath pillages heartily from Belgian new beat, braindance, electroclash and EDM cheese to forge brutally effective industrial lullabies. [Oct 2016, p.26]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These seven piano/voice tracks, recorded and mixed live to tape by Tucker Martine, are immediately seductive, balancing spare, bittersweet melodies and billowing space. [Oct 2016, p.26]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Co-producer Tucker Martine pulls out all the stops, building the tracks from subdued openings to majestic climaxes that support but never overpower Israel Nebeker's songs and vocals. [Oct 2016, p.26]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A fairly straightforward indie offering, covering mid-tempo jangle with layers of guitars, and lyrics about growing up and suburban escape. [Oct 2016, p.25]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Her ambitious third record marks anther giant progression in an already distinguished career, and offers provocative thoughts on sacrifice and identity that should outlast its 48-minute runtime. [Oct 2016, p.22]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Without question, Schmilco is Wilco's quietest, most disquieting album. [Oct 2016, p.24]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sumptuous, orchestra pop lace with lyrical acerbity. [Oct 2016, p.28]
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