Uncut's Scores

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For 11,027 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
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11027 music reviews
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This rock'n'roll album falls far short of Little Ricard's atomic excitement in a genre here showing its age, but 78-year-old Van sounds youthly eager, even sensual in between the hushed female harmonies and honky-tonk piano of "You Are My Sunshine". [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her new album whizzes by in a 28-minute blur of finger-tapped melodies, lopsided time signatures and arrangements that, on tracks like "earth Eater" and "Believing IS Seeing", whip from jazz to glitter to metal with neck-snapping precision. [Dec 2023, p.36]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A baggy sprawl in places, but generally rewarding. [Dec 2023, p.36]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Standouts such as "Rocks Of Time" and "Next One, Maybe" have all the depth, richness and candour that Veirs' admirers have come to expect. [Dec 2023, p.36]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    "Daddy Pop" has a Queen-like Break; "Jughead", post-Bomb Squad production. "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" is more subtly impressive. .... B-Sides plus intinerant sessions yielding 33 unreleased tracks. [Dec 2023, p.51]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While the material is frequently just serviceable, the arrangements are inspired thanks to the virtuosic interplay of JaRon Marshall's gilded piano, Brendan Bond's percolating basslines and Quesada's sizzling solos. [Dec 2023, p.27]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Less effectively soothing than 2022's A Journey..., it's unconventionally beguiling, more ambient predecessor. [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The album flags a bit in the middle but maintains enough propulsion to easily glide past those saggy moments. [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's an embarrassment of riches. [Nov 2023, p.40]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    LeBlanc wears his canyon-rock influences proudly on his sleeve, all high harmonies and chiming guitars, from the yearning "Stranger Things" to the tender "No Promises Broken" and the cathartic closer "The Outside". [Dec 2023, p.33]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Aussie Maestros deliver seven concise tracks of electronica, largely indebted to Giorgio Moroder but with ventures into many of those elements Moroder inspired, from disco to techno and even jungle. [Dec 2023, p.33]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A familiarity with the back-story is not necessary to enjoy this potted indie-rock opera: as always with Darnielle's work, an appreciation of droll storytelling and deadpan melodies will do. [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skinner's brightest, punchiest and most eclectic in memory. It's a welcome return. [Dec 2023, p.36]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A reworking of an early Squirrel Flower track, "I Don't Use A Trash Can", and the delicately atmospheric "Finally Rain" bookend the work, showing Williams' quiet strength as a songwriter. [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Laugh Track features a band free of some of their usual burden. [Dec 2023, p.34]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's often a giddy, even ecstatic feel to Pierce's exercises in personal exorcism, one that connects the exuberant indie-pop that was The Drums' stock and trade during their breakout a decade ago with his more smiths-y and synth-laden music here. [Dec 2023, p.28]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hackney Diamonds strains at the leash to show just how vital and dynamic the tones still are, with Jagger very much in pole position. .... Reborn again, the Stones kick back and celebrate. [Dec 2023, p.20]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Bayou is a showcase for Finley the storyteller, an artist who can convincingly inhabit narratives that may not be entirely based on his own experiences, lifestyle or even beliefs. [Nov 2023, p.27]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The set ranges ambitiously from hypnotic, twisted love songs such as "103" and the title track to the warped gospel undertones of "My Girls My Girls" and "LA Hex", courtesy of the Compton Kidz Club Choir. [Dec 2023, p.31]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    But for all the rueful, wistful, middle-aged preoccupations of History Books, its two most emblematic tracks, "Little Fires" and "Positive Charge", catch The Gaslight Anthem at their most glorious and furious. [Dec 2023, p.30]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Selvutsletter is a shapeless sprawl in places but covers an impressive range. [Nov 2023, p.31]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's an album that unfurls like a flag on a battlefield, glorious, tattered, defiant, full of big choruses, vaulting harmonies, a brazenly windswept sound. The guitars couldn't be louder, bolder, more heroically deployed. [Nov 2023, p.28]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While Pearlies often invites comparisons with music by Lush’s many dream-pop descendants – “The Presence” and “Tonight Is Mine” being just two songs here that Beach House will wish they’d crafted – Anderson continually finds intriguing ways of deviating from those templates. In so doing, she’s able to nudge the guitar pedals aside and demonstrate that her music still has other places to go.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultimately, what CMAT has done with CrazyMad, For Me is create a new pop music, centered around melody, heartache, and resolve, and filled with more than a dash of gallows humor to boot.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ["And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me" is] unashamedly lovely but manages to avoid tweeness through the clarity and concision of both the composition and the playing. [Nov 2023, p.29]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sweeping arrangements, thoughtful ambient passages and judicious archival samples drive the story, which is cleverly weighted from a thematic viewpoint. [Oct 2023, p.33]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The London trio chart out some fresh trajectories for the mesmeric brand of avant-pop they established with 2019's eerily prophetic The Age Of Immunology and 2021's superb Ookii Gekkou. [Nov 2023, p.33]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a similar vibe here [to the soundtrack they created for BBC drama Gallows Pole] on tracks such as "raised By Hills" and "Tripping In The Graveyard", although elsewhere the psych weirdness is as rampantly eclectic as ever. [Nov 2023, p.29]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clear, uncluttered, minimally adorned, it works in different measures to the usual. [Oct 2023, p.31]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It ["Hurtin' Or Healed"] is one of many moments on the record with a reflectively slow and gentle pace. But there are also subtle dynamic shifts and spikes throughout. [Nov 2023, p.32]
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