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 |
Score distribution:
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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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Blur 21's extraordinary warts'n'all scope makes its subject's odyssey momentous and tangible. [Aug 2012, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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These songs sound like old country classics. [Aug 2012, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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There's country stoicism, sentimentality and sparkling sadness on the songs. [Aug 2012, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Ethereal snatches of long-lost voices from old 78s, stentorian tones of TS Eliot and--on Richardson Road--Robert Wyatt adds plenty to this warm-hearted electronica. [Aug 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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It's Thornton Wilder's Our Town divested of optimism, yet retaining that play's twilight feel. [Aug 2012, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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This is Hogan's first solo album in 11 years and her best. [Aug 2012, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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MOB sound as electrifying, as curious and as awake as they ever have. [Aug 2012, p.96]- Mojo
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For the most part his tribute to Duke Ellington works in the way that should keep purist onside. [Aug 2012, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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This transatlantic convergence of innovative, virtuosic minds is a sublime advert for the possibilities of improves post classical composition. [Aug 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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It seems more about Africa's love affair with US urbana, and so less endearing. [Aug 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Unity Band is now a scintillating platform for Metheny's fretboard wizardry. [Aug 2012, p/94]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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La Havas sets herself apart from the coffee shop set with a rough-hewn edge. [Aug 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Though no Pet Sound, this album, at its best so wistfully reliving out golden yesterdays, ranks up there with Today! [Aug 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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With the excellent Roots backing her, she recasts many of the dominant black music sounds of 30 or so years ago on a set of songs which address concerns that are clearly in the here-and-now. [Aug 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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It signals the charged completion of a circuit, the final bridging of a gap between conductors. [Aug 2012, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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WIXIW's pop is still complex and affecting and of beguiling substance. [Aug 2012, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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The former [true gems] are plenty, the latter [filler are] few. [Aug 2012, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Swing Lo works best at arm's length, admired like a diamond rather than held like a carbon-based life-form. [Aug 2012, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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When it works, it's astonishing, but his hit rate is middling compared with erstwhile sparring partner El-P. [Aug 2012, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Danger et al stamp their authority on the genre, with a collision of claustrophobic lyrics, charm and playful innocence. [Aug 2012, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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The album is at its rawest and most dynamic on such garage tracks as I Gotta Get Shorty Out Of Jail and One-Eyed Jack. [Aug 2012, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Fortunately, it manages to hang together in a way that suggest steamy nights out in the city with Massive Attack. [Aug 2012, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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An extraordinary, multi-layered, attention-grabbing record. [Aug 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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He hops from one musical lilypad to the next--arguably a few too many for comfort. [Aug 2012, p.87]- Mojo
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Lewis hasn't topped 2010's masterful Forget, but he has proved it was no fluke. [Aug 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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The spring in their step has a dangerously sharp point to increase Never's allure. [Aug 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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The somnambulant nihilism of his one-trick flow and the risible machismo of choruses quickly wear out SpaceGhostPurrp's welcome. [Aug 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Urban Turban is another irresistible Cornershop mash-up. [Aug 2012, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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The stylistic shifts mean The Tarnished Gold doesn't hang together--it lacks the luster of real gold. [Aug 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Yet for all Doseone's phantasmagoria and keening schizophrenia, there's a melodic richness that miraculously sculpts order out of the panicked disco chaos. [Aug 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Theirs is a refreshing opaque, charmingly fumbling sound world. [Aug 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Broken Brights is like a stroll along the beach at dusk; reflective, intimate, nostalgic and yet full of tomorrow's promise. [Aug 2012, p.92]- Mojo
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He has created a wooded lattice of crackling guitar and dusky electronica. [Jun 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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What started out as playful downtime in the studio soon blossomed into a set of poetic urban folk songs. [Jun 2012, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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There is less of the soundscaping and eerie atmospherics that made last year's X EP so entertainingly varied. [Jun 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The languid voiced one has rarely sounded better. [Jun 2012, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The unreleased material sustains earlier standards. [Jun 2012, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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There's still no room for the instrumental warm-up, so don't throw out that original bootleg. [Jun 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It's hot, loose, raucous, and retro in an overlapping-era kind of way. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It's a beauty, intimate songs and poetic lyrics, overdubbed with the Seattle-based Texan's own harmonies. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
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He stomps or sways along in the nu Seattle folk/rockabilly grave-fun way displaying a sing-the-phonebook grace. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The songs are rarely more than threads of querulous melody and floaty notions. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Passage surges, subsides and enthralls like a Gothic Sigur Ros. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It is a lot like Teen dream, but novelty is hardly the point: if Beach House are your type, then Bloom is unlikely to see the attraction wither. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The group's fourth album confirms that their default setting is a bit four-square nuts-and-bolts punk pop. [Jun 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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A gloriously unviable alternative to dullard R&B/X Factorism. [Jun 2012, p.92]- Mojo
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It could all be so much MOR easy-on-the-earwash but Gardot's silken voice, musicality and knack for a telling lyric exude class. [Jun 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Smoke Fairies still possess great harmonies and sweet melodies, but they now come steel clad. [Jun 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Toweringly camp singles like the slinky Perfect World and an album to enjoy on shuffle. [Jun 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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There are comeback and then there's the new Cult album opener. [Jun 2012, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It's accompanied with a swing and a fingerclick all Waterhouse's own and could turn out to be the soul album of 2012. [Jun 2012, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It is her once feral voice, now markedly more controlled, which proves most impressive here. [Jun 2012, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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What could have easily sounded like an extended theme tune for Blackadder proves a classy and durable listen. [Jun 2012, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It can perfectly capture the film's conflicted moods of sadness and euphoria, but just as easily turn cloying and sickly. [Jun 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The result is a low-key mist of strings, piano, percussion and electronics. [Jun 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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[Dave Gahan's] trademark delivery brings the gravitas to Machin's creeping strings-swaddled, Morricone-like mood. [Jun 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The Ghost In Daylight is a memory-haunted journey through the dead voices and deep narratives of Englands lost; broadside ballads culled from earth and sea. [Jun 2012, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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This sensitive tribute lingers. [Jun 2012, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Not exactly left field, but on the right track. [Jun 2012, p.86]- Mojo
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From the second opener Get Got's frantic arpeggiations synths kick-in there's little let-up on a mind-mugging set so fresh even Delia Smith can't test its flavour. [Jun 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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You're left with the impression that Lower Dens are both big sounding and very clever. [Jun 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It's difficult to make either narrative or poetic sense of, well, what she's on about. [Jun 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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OFWGKTA are talented, if not as ground-breaking as they think. [Jun 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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His craftsman's melodiousness and honest voice add balm and balance. [Jun 2012, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Segall's charms are as abundant as his releases: may his well never run dry. [Jun 2012, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Too much of this album, while pleasant enough, melts into a low-key blur of whispered, introspective nothings. [Jun 2012, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Beal's vocals shift from Screaming Jay Hawkins wails to the lo-fi R&B melancholy of Cody ChesnuTT, while his chattering snake times rhythms summon up the ghosts of Moondog and Sun Ra, taking things to another level entirely. [Jun 2012, p.83]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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They haven't really been missed, yet it's good to have them back. [Jun 2012, p.83]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It's still summer music, but The Only Place captures that moment when it's time to wrap a cardigan around your shoulders against the chill. [Jun 2012, p.83]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Spektor delivers everything with such guileless brio that you never notice the join [between troubadour style to chrome-clean hip hop].- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The grain and gravitas of Jones's voice is perfectly suited to this diverse material. [Jun 2012, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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Repeated plays will bear deep rewards confirming both protagonist' growing stature in modern music. [Jun 2012, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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A piquant appetizer for the impending movie re-boot then, and a balm to those who still wake up screaming because of Stallone's 1995 film. [Jun 2012, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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It's a labyrinthine 64-minute journey, bound together by a group identity that gains clarity with every listen. [Jun 2012, p.80]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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As musical hybrids go, it's a fascinating and highly addictive one. [May 2012, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 17, 2012 -
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B-sides included here aren't without their charms but the album's genius clearly lay in distilling only the finest of Mould's new material into a powerful, singular statement. [Jul 2012, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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It's the resulting acoustic simplicity of his songwriting that makes this collection such a treat. [Jul 2012, p.101]- Mojo
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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The Decca set allows insight into King's working methods. [Jul 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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This absorbing new venture is essentially a set of unaccompanied musical dialogues between the two veterans. [Jul 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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It is William's ever-distinctive voice, allied to a line in unfailingly attractive material that provides this release with a patina of timelessness. [Jul 2012, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Jul 10, 2012 -
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[Gentle Stream] is gorgeous sun-dappled psych, crossing the lighter side of paisley underground with Nick Drake's dreaminess. [Dec 2011, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 3, 2012 -
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Starts with elegant Congolese rumba then transforms into something angrier and more powerful... What lets it down, however, is an unfocused mid-section. [Jan 2012, p.101]- Mojo
Posted Jun 29, 2012 -
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Satriani, a Hendrix obsessive, is brilliant throughout. But above all, it's the quality of their songs that makes Chickenfoot more than just a rich rock star's hobby. [Jan 2012, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Jun 28, 2012 -
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Posted Jun 28, 2012 -
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Auguste Arthur's third, and best, set of lonesome-pine Americana. [Jun 2012, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Jun 28, 2012 -
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Sepalcure finds its feet firmly in Chicago - past and present - blending early house melodies with the insistent, skittish, deep bass rhythms of the footwork genre in an emotional electronic mash. [Jan 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jun 28, 2012 -
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Posted Jun 28, 2012 -
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The warm glow that they engender is palpable, but you do wonder what may happen if The Field broke free from the constraints of the loop. [Jan 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jun 28, 2012 -
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He wastes half his solo debut dishing out second rate filler. Thankfully, his true colours shine through on I Still Wanna, Raid and Trouble On My Mind ... although they're frustrating glimpses of a potent artist coasting too readily on past glories. [Jan 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jun 28, 2012