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 |
Score distribution:
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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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It's a feast of contextual songwriting and sizzling guitar. [Apr 2012, p.83]- Uncut
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It's so generic it could be sold in a supermarket basics range. [Apr 2012, p.83]- Uncut
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Break It Yourself by contrast [to Noble Beast] feels like an attempt to communicate more directly and is his most affecting album yet. [Apr 2012, p.82]- Uncut
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While the lyrics are cliched to a fault, Lloyd is a convincing loverman across the range of backdrops he's given. [Apr 2012, p.81]- Uncut
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Too many tracks are still founded on tiresome conceits. [Apr 2012, p.81]- Uncut
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It's certainly easy to believe that these sublime pieces could have inspired such a profound reaction [from director Cameron Crowe]. [Apr 2012, p.81]- Uncut
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There will doubtless be more varied shades on future records, but for now, this pensive debut gives notice of a fine new talent. [Apr 2012, p.80]- Uncut
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Over the course of an album even dogs will find the whistle register wearing, but taken individually these are sublime cocktails of post-geographical orientalism. [Apr 2012, p.79]- Uncut
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The malevolence and needling insistency of Gang Of four and Fugazi are this record's core. [Apr 2012, p.77]- Uncut
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The addition of vocals is hugely welcome, even if they are only Panda Bear-style chants. [Apr 2012, p.77]- Uncut
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A mature album that's abrasive but not "freaky" or "weird", that enjoys its moments of harmony when it finds them, and is as serious-minded as the times demand. [Apr 2012, p.76]- Uncut
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There's a passion and naturalism to these songs that make them worthy of the hubbub. [Apr 2012, p.75]- Uncut
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The stream of banjo, fiddle, bones and spoons rolls on agreeably, marred only by a tendency to tweeness. [Apr 2012, p.73]- Uncut
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Cardinal's fine harmonized vocals and muzzy, Byrds-like melodies are still intact. [Apr 2012, p.73]- Uncut
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Album number three enlarges their sonic palette with piano, dobro and touches of strings and woodwind but maintains the same folksy charm. [Apr 2012, p.71]- Uncut
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There are moments of terrific turbulence, solemn quietness and some sadness, but the collection eventually lights on safe harbor. [Apr 2012, p.70]- Uncut
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The kids know where it's at, and so, in this career-high purple patch, does Paul Weller. [Apr 2012, p.69]- Uncut
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The demos are undoubtedly this boxset's main attraction. [Apr 2012, p.91]- Uncut
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The dominant flavor is deliberately faceless and club-friendly electro, but the highly finessed sonics and subtle attention to detail emerge over repeat listens. [Apr 2012, p.88]- Uncut
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The band's smarts and muscle come together with a resounding whomp on the new LP. [Apr 2012, p.75]- Uncut
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This painful exercise in manufactured soul-baring Is a genuinely grim proposition. [Apr 2012, p.82]- Uncut
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This singer-songwriter neatly balances the darkly troubled with the charmingly childlike, acoustic clunkiness with intricate finger picking. [Mar 2012, p.98]- Uncut
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It's an ingenious arrangement, featuring juddering, minimal percussion, spare piano chords and vocoders that soar to the edge of the studiosphere, worth the price of the album alone. [Mar 2012, p.84]- Uncut
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Phantom Limb mine a solid seam of Southern soul, rock, country, and gospel. [Mar 2012, p.97]- Uncut
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Musically, too, he became far more adventurous than both Roxy Music and the New Romantic legions who echoed the original glam-rock innovations, his work paralleling that of questing artists like Scott Walker and Talk Talk.- Uncut
- Posted Mar 6, 2012
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