Uncut's Scores
- Music
For 11,992 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: 9,012 out of 11992
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Mixed: 2,906 out of 11992
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Negative: 74 out of 11992
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The brilliant "Oya" places the sisters' voices front and centre, swinging from Bjork-like vocal gymnastics into a Yoruban spiritual. Elsewhere, Russell winds the pair's cajon and Bata beats into wonky boom-clap rhythms that smartly complement the romantic "ghosts" or "Think Of You." [Apr 2015, p.77]- Uncut
Posted Feb 27, 2015 -
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He's backed by an orthodox guitar/bass/drums trio, which sometimes renders inert his unorthodox rhymes. [Apr 2015, p.76]- Uncut
Posted Feb 27, 2015 -
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Like most albums by reformed bands, it reminds you what you liked without opening up an essential new chapter. [Apr 2015, p.84]- Uncut
Posted Feb 26, 2015 -
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Shadow Of The Sun includes strong takes on the familiar Johnson Schtick of Spacemen 3 throb and ambulatory guitar solos. [Apr 2015, p.80]- Uncut
Posted Feb 26, 2015 -
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Plays Chris And Cosey, more than justifies its existence. [Mar 2015, p.73]- Uncut
Posted Feb 26, 2015 -
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Hardly radical, then, but the familiarity breeds contentment. [Mar 2015, p.72]- Uncut
Posted Feb 26, 2015 -
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There remains the faintest hint of gothic romance, a kind of Dead Can Dance Class. But you are likely to slip off trying to locate any kind of edge. [Apr 2015, p.83]- Uncut
Posted Feb 26, 2015 -
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All in all, A Thousand Miles is a diverting curio, but no substitute for the original. [Apr 2015, p.78]- Uncut
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Nite Fields' debut album is a far grittier prospect than the neon-lit, 1980s-flavoured spelling of their name suggests, thanks largely to its predominant mood of nocturnal gloom. [Apr 2015, p.81]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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McMurtry's flair for the cinematic shines brighter than ever. [Apr 2015, p.78]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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Entirely unoriginal, but the sort of thing that, 55 years after it was invented, it's still hard to get enough of. [Apr 2015, p.77]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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The intricacies and frustrations of relationships dominate, while the arrangements are kept crisp and simple. [Apr 2015, p.76]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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Old friendships contribute to the good vibes, and an atmosphere that's at once rambunctious and exploratory. [Apr 2015, p.76]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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Bursting with good ideas, albeit often self-defeating in its kaleidoscopic complexity, much of Aureate Gloom sounds like the great psychedelic retro-glam rock opera that Graham Coxon might one day compose. [Apr 2015, p.81]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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Rebel heart almost gets the balance right, but at 19 tracks, most in the industrial party-pop style of cheeseball producers Diplo and Avicii, there's simply too much going on. [Apr 2015, p.78]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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"The Right Stuff" is carried along by a nifty percussive shuffle and lovely layered brass that make you wish the entire album carried their production imprint. [Apr 2015, p.76]- Uncut
Posted Feb 25, 2015 -
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The album endures as a bequest to the bogglement of the ages. [Mar 2015, p.95]- Uncut
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Posted Feb 23, 2015 -
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It's never a challenging listen, evoking distant, blinking skyscrapers, buzzing streetlights and echoes of the previous night's warehouse rave. [Mar 2015, p.78]- Uncut
Posted Feb 20, 2015 -
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For the first half of The Republic he extracts effervescent hisses and trills from his gear, fashioning a fragrant if unremarkable video score, while in the final section he lets loose, relatively speaking. [Mar 2015, p.80]- Uncut
Posted Feb 20, 2015 -
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The most striking thing about Citizen Zombie is how young and naive and happy it all sounds. [Mar 2015, p.74]- Uncut
Posted Feb 19, 2015 -
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EarthEE feels both comfortingly familiar and thrillingly alien, without striving too hard to be either. [Mar 2015, p.83]- Uncut
Posted Feb 19, 2015 -
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The album captures both Matthew Houck's heartbreaking delivery--rendered even more gorgeously cracked by the strain of live performance--and the sinewy charm of his backing band. [Mar 2015, p.80]- Uncut
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Posted Feb 19, 2015 -
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Pierson's first outing without Fred Schneider and co is produced to sound immaculately (and blandly) like 1980s American new Wave pop; enough to make "Love Shack" seem cutting edge. [Mar 2015, p.80]- Uncut
Posted Feb 19, 2015 -
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More heartmelter than skullsplitter--but just as ruinous. [Mar 2015, p.73]- Uncut
Posted Feb 18, 2015 -
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It lives and dies on its guest vocalists: female MC Tink shines on "Wanna Party," as does grime veteran Riko Dan on "Speng." Elsewhere, a reliance on drab Auto-Tune crooning can drag. [Mar 2015, p.76]- Uncut
Posted Feb 18, 2015 -
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Songhoy Blues take the fusion of West African desert rhythms and rock'n'roll a further step down the road trodden so thrillingly by Tinariwen. [Mar 2015, p.81]- Uncut
Posted Feb 17, 2015