Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,509 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
| Highest review score: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
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Positive: 6,863 out of 10509
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10509
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Negative: 34 out of 10509
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It's not that Tortoise have got their groove back--they've never lacked compelling rhythm--rather, they've rediscovered their alchemical ability to conjure the atmospherically and melodically sublime from premium grade popular and art music precedents. [Jan 2016, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Jan 11, 2016 -
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Less direct than its 2012 predecessor The Shadow Of Heaven, Suicide Songs collects richly arranged reflections which climax with A Cocaine Christmas And An Alcoholic's New Year. [Feb 2016, p.96]- Mojo
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New View furthers Friedberger's quest to declutter, finding great pop and occasional profundity in getting to the point and letting her tunes ring clear. [Feb 2016, p.92]- Mojo
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Night Thoughts is the work of a band very much at home in the here and now, all the while looking forward. Still something else, still something wonderful. [Feb 2016, p.88]- Mojo
- Posted Jan 8, 2016
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It proves to be an oblique, sometimes outre, but always artistic reinvestigation rather than an indulgent lap of honour around erstwhile glories. [Feb 2016, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jan 7, 2016 -
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Almost inevitably, Adore Life overcompensates, but in a good way. This is Savages' love album. [Feb 2016, p.91]- Mojo
- Posted Jan 7, 2016
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Theatrical swishes of piano, mellotron, guitars and percussion back her powerful, red velvet voice. [Feb 2016, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Jan 7, 2016 -
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The wiry Dubliner is stealthily building a similarly indelible songbook. [Feb 2016, p.92]- Mojo
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Posted Dec 23, 2015 -
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This collection suffers slightly from inconsistency--possibly because it's cut from several different shows. [Jan 2016, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Dec 23, 2015 -
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It's an album of soothing '80s-style motorik synth-pop given just enough bite from contemporary dance music to avoid becoming pastiche. [Mar 2015, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Dec 22, 2015 -
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She may not over-emote, but Elsewhere still has burn marks around its emotional edges. [May 2015, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Dec 22, 2015 -
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More sharp work from these urban outfitters. [May 2015, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Dec 21, 2015 -
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Echoes of Aphex Twin, Nils Frahm, Arvo Part and Biosphere swirl around a deeply personal but sonically seductive piece of work. [Jan 2016, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Dec 18, 2015 -
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Crackling with radio-primed hooks, whipsnap breakbeats and Boucher’s helium-pitched vocals, Grimes’ third album makes a convincing strike for playlist ubiquity, with a healthy dollop of the oddball chucked in.- Mojo
- Posted Dec 18, 2015
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While none of these 19 tracks reach four minutes, the music has an epic, quasi-devotional quality. [Jan 2016, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Dec 15, 2015 -
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If the pace and mood start to become a tad predictable, Satomi "Deerhoof" Matsuzaki's Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is more of a spectral journey into a far stranger world. [Jan 2016, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Dec 15, 2015 -
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While the album's nine, wordless pieces for mournfully beautiful cello and shifting ambient atmospheres may not always conjure seismic volatility, there is certainly an underlying tension close to the surface of swooning opener Hellebore. [Jan 2016, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Dec 15, 2015 -
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Chorus probes that the light from Lush's star still shines brighter and stronger than anyone might have suspected. [Jan 2016, p.105]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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It's hard to imagine even hardcore fans listening to this twice, as it sounds too much like an empty barrel being scraped. [Jan 2016, p.106]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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If you can get past the redundancy--and what a redundancy it is. [Jan 2016, p.106]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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These 41 short, snappy but entirely involving instrumentals generously reaffirm Dilla's inimitable way around chopped-up vocal samples, waspish, distempered synth lines and spacey unquantised drums. [Jan 2016, p.104]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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The box set joy is the archive additions, their whiff of ancient wasted sweat. [Jan 2016, p.102]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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A rich seam of molten psychedelic heaviness pitched between Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer. [Jan 2016, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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Heartbreaking, heartwarming, Eric's still very much a contender. [Jan 2016, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Dec 14, 2015 -
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Live In Paris is a pure window into the troubled soul of the mid-2010s Tuareg. [Jan 2016, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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An exotic, often rapturous reading of Tzur's Sufi-meets-Hebrew song forms. [Jan 2016, p.91]- Mojo
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If the phosphorus-hot psychedelia of their first Hexadic record was too much for some ears, this subtly chance-infused union of magick and method should prove more inviting. [Jan 2016, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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He also works hard to bring variety within the gargantuan two-and-a-half-hour running time with an all-star guest list. [Jan 2016, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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This new album is as quixotic and wilfully idiosyncratic as his previous oeuvre. [Jan 2016, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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Jones actually one-ups the Ventures with a frenetic version of White Christmas you can do the swim to. [Jan 2016, p.88]- Mojo
- Posted Dec 11, 2015
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Beach House's second album in three months underlines just how precision-stylised their frosty, often glacially-slow dream-pop has become. [Jan 2016, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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Any suggestion of sameness is speedily erased by Alexandra Eastburn's arsenal of skewed electronic embellishments and the breathless exuberance the group bring to the party. [Jan 2016, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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Icelandic duo reflect their homeland's long winter nights. [Jan 2016, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Dec 11, 2015 -
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Persuasive R&B with strident lyrics and sharp sonics. [Jan 2016, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Dec 10, 2015 -
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Redolent of soundtrack ace Danny Elfman, if Kubrick is a pitch for work in cinema it's a sound move. [Jan 2016, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Dec 9, 2015 -
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It's a welcome upgrade, more considered yet catchier. [Jan 2016, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Dec 9, 2015 -
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Baroness have delivered their masterpiece: an album grounding their cosmic heaviosity with earthbound, compelling drama. [Jan 2016, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Dec 9, 2015 -
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Right On! seesaws between spectral moments of introspection and bristling passages of electric activity. [Jan 2016, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Dec 9, 2015 -
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Halfway through and it's breathtakingly apparent that David Bowie isn't so much back on the horse as riding bareback towards a cliff-edge. [Jan 2016, p.86]- Mojo
- Posted Dec 9, 2015
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Sunn O))) devotees will find satisfaction, but newcomers should start with 2009’s igneous rock classic Monoliths & Dimensions.- Mojo
- Posted Dec 2, 2015
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This second outing is an exercise in documenting a much beefier, hot-blooded sound. [Nov 2015, p.87]- Mojo
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Never one for youthful giddiness, her third album is strikingly authoritative, tending towards the imperious even when expressing vulnerability yet rarely coming over as soullessly efficient.- Mojo
- Posted Nov 20, 2015
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With a voice now dry and shaky, Friedman nonetheless revels in his novelist knack for tall tales. [Dec 2015, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Nov 19, 2015 -
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An album drenched in familiar swathes of charm, pathos, elegance and black humour. [Dec 2015, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Nov 13, 2015 -
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It's over-reliance on Nine Inch Nails atmospherics and Boots's far from distinctive Bowie-lite croon could benefit from further tweaking. [Dec 2015, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Nov 11, 2015 -
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Posted Nov 9, 2015 -
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These transformations prove entirely worthwhile. [Dec 2015, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Nov 9, 2015 -
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Only two original members remain--David Thomas, also of Pere Ubu, and bass guitarist Craig Bell--and their approach feels oddly inconsistent. [Dec 2015, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Nov 6, 2015 -
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Younghusband's second LP pushes bittersweet melodies from under a reverb rug. [Dec 2015, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Nov 3, 2015 -
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Mehldau is never bereft of imagination, using his source material as a vehicle for sublime musical storytelling that results in some of the most beautiful piano playing you'll ever hear. [Dec 2015, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Oct 30, 2015 -
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The LA quintet still sound like 16-year-old boys.... Musically, though, their slick soulful pop-R&B is far more refined. [Dec 2015, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Oct 30, 2015 -
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West Kirby Country Primary declares the vivid flowering of a great talent. [Dec 2015, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Oct 30, 2015 -
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Atmos aplenty then, but more melodies like Magdalene's would be nice. [Dec 2015, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Oct 30, 2015 -
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Posted Oct 30, 2015 -
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[A] perfect symbiosis of mournful brass and life-giving rock. [Dec 2015, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Oct 29, 2015 -
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His self-titled debut falls a little short, but Son Little has potential. [Dec 2015, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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The recurring hallmark is Ritter's literate storytelling. [Nov 2015, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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Hi Honey ultimately triumphs thanks to its creator' perfect chemistry. [Aug 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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The injection of vintage jewels that worked so well in-concert doesn't necessarily make for a coherent listen here. [Dec 2015, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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There can't have been a better 1968 record in all of 2015. [Dec 2015, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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The definitive elements of this bijou gem are the author's own. [Dec 2015, p.86]- Mojo
- Posted Oct 28, 2015
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Another weighty addition to this first-choice list. [Dec 2015, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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Posted Oct 28, 2015 -
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Gibbons's wily blend of open-mindedness and roots-loyalty remains intact. [Nov 2015, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Mashup of overused modern dancefloor styles and rote bragging, with odd moment of classic purple peculiarity. [Dec 2015, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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[Illuminates] Nash's own cosmic poetry, crunching guitars and swooning pedal steel. [Dec 2015, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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They draw from a practiced old hand's bag of tricks yet feel delightfully fresh. [Dec 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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The overriding tone recalls Lana Del Rey's gothic torch song elegies, albeit with far more economy and less overacting. [Dec 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Henley's discourses on ageing and feeling adrift in the modern world are poignant, and, on A Younger Man, painfully well observed. [Dec 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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It's great credit to both Lund and his versatile backing bad, The Hurtin' Albertans, that such see-sawing through genres can sound so much like a singular piece of work. [Dec 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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This latest doesn't noticeably monkey with their formula, and with good reason. [Dec 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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A tad more conventional than Liz Harris's ongoing work as Grouper, despite roots in C86 shambling and early-90s shoegaze, Helen's hazy, half-grasped songs are still several left turns from any standard indie fare. [Dec 2015, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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For Gahan, Angels & Ghosts is another opportunity to repeat his therapeutic cycle of guilt-shedding and redemption. [Dec 2015, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Return To The Noon can seem too dense a construct to penetrate. [Dec 2015, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Stewart still has the voice and, on the gravelly rocker Please and the Steve Harley/Jim Cregan co-write A Friend For Life, the songs. But the rest is best avoided. [Dec 2015, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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With his amiable croak and humour warming his observations, Manhattan is no bitter mope. [Dec 2015, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015 -
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Simplicity rules throughout and the material doesn't stray far from folk roots, yet always sounds contemporary. [Dec 2015, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2015