Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,505 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: 6,859 out of 10505
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10505
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Negative: 34 out of 10505
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Although Duffy sounds like a pissed Year 9 teacher on 'Live And Let Die' and The Hold Steady confirm suspicions that their greatest strength is being an E Street Band covers act on Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City,' Hot Chip, Peaches, TV On The Radio and Elbow all go that extra mile to create something new, unique and often quite wonderful. [Apr 2009, p.101]- Mojo
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On this solid business-as-usual set, his band kicks requisite ass on Isaak's decent country-rock tearjerkers. [Jul 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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The ensuing synthetic pop suite can't disguise a crucial lack of memorable songs. [Mar 2009, p.111]- Mojo
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Bringing out the too-often buried pop nuances of his stylish songs and new inventions from his under-rated guitar work, it's a stylistic cloth that Ward seems very comfortable wearring. [Mar 2009, p.111]- Mojo
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Years Of Refusal isn't a great album, but it's no disaster. [Mar 2009, p.104]- Mojo
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Hanna's sub-Kevin Shields guitars and Chikudate's sparkling keyboards eddy across the Blondie-esque layers. [Feb 2009, p.113]- Mojo
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The results are as scattershot as the guest list. [Mar 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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Tight Knit is a beautiful, lazy album of befogged West Coast dreams. [Apr 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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Goodnight Oslo could be a ghost story, a slice of stoner paranoia or a song about steam trains, but shows something sleek and ominous still looming in the fog of Hitchcock's imagination. [Mar 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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This cleaner-sounding set finds the quartet's elemental power now yielding to poise, thier speaker-bleeding blues and jagged riffs leavened by folk shimmer and country jangle. [Mar 2009, p.110]- Mojo
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While there is no quibbling with the noble sentiment behind this set, a more judicial selection policy might have established a unified aesthetic to eclipse some of the B-side material here. [Mar 2009, p.114]- Mojo
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Their 14th release enschews improv for structure, its hulking grooves boosted by Melvins guitarist Buzz Osborne and the distinctive noir wail of new label boss Mike Patton. [Apr 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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While It's Not Me, It's You isn't quite the voice of wisdom, the Mockney chatter has been dialed right down. [Mar 2009, p.108]- Mojo
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From the lurking threat of 'Street Walkin'' to the pretty sadness of closer 'Goin' Home,' this is outsider's music. Therein lie its real strength. [Mar 2009, p.110]- Mojo
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If anything, she's dreamer, the tempo's a little more down, the mood more twilit. [May 2009, p.101]- Mojo
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She's neither a soft seducer nor a lapel-grabber, but her eye for detail combined with that degree of vocal detachment quietly commands attention. [Mar 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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The band make each piece their own on this, their most satisfying set for years. [Dec 2008, p.102]- Mojo
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This has more than enough beauty and character to stand on its own. [Mar 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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Stollsteimer, it seems, is still in search of his own musical identity. [ Jun 2009, p.96]- Mojo
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Unfortunately, Sea Sew too often clunks along like its awkwardly punning title. [Jun 2009, p.1010]- Mojo
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This may sound wilfully eclectic but actually hangs together, bound by May's showman-like vocals. [Mar 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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Hugely enjoyable, with nagging tunes too, but let's move forward next time. [Mar 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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Less like leftovers from a previous album than another move forward, creating out of his prepared piano and mini string section something fresh, subtle and beguiling. [Apr 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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A Fool For Everyone treads a similarly disconsolate path [as "The Sky Behind The Sea"]. [Apr 2009, p.101]- Mojo
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The Nebraskans' second LP strikes a meaty accord between classic rock swagger and the pumped up, get-in-the-van intensity of hardcore. [Apr 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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Hamilton's second album only firms up a reputation for making pastoral, semi-acoustic pop. [Mar 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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With producer Owen Morris at the controls, Which Bitch? always promised to be a riotous affair. [Mar 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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While Tonight: Franz Ferdinand might not take all the chances those early reports suggested, it shows the band examing their world from all angles, from the unflattering profile in the mirror behind the batr to the long hard look into the soul. Life in three dimensions suits them very well indeed. [Feb 2009, p.102]- Mojo
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The dejected vocals and mesmerising mood of the music are in place, making this an album for long lonely winter nights. [Feb 2009, p.115]- Mojo
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Tke heart and enjoy The Boss's galvanising newie--Mr. Motivator is back. [Mar 2009, p.102]- Mojo
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This sequel ups their ante further; there's inventiveness here that rivals Girls Aloud producers Xenomania. [Apr 2009, p.103]- Mojo
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Gutter Tactics is their most approachable set to date. [Mar 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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This bombastic, cacophonic, but endlessly impressive set would make a fine soundtrack for dancing madly among the wreckage [of capitalism]. [Feb 2009, p.113]- Mojo
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The Rifles perservered, and if originality is not a strong point, their skill for crafting simple but immediate pop choruses makes uo foir it. [Nov 2008, p.109]- Mojo
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By far the most streamlined and purposeful Animal Collective record. [Jan 2008, p.98]- Mojo
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It's an ideal January release, time enough for Antony's spacious, textured odyssey to sink in before those Album Of The Year polls come round again. [Feb 2009, p.104]- Mojo
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It may lack the wrong-footing eclecticism that made his name, but makes up for that in pure melodic charm. [Mar 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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Their star-kissed analogue sprawl and beautiful singing revitalise tired classic rock moves. [Mar 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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The veteran's authoritive amber croon and psychedelicised, occassionally spectacular axework imbue this mid-tempo set with a grace and economy often lacking in the genre. [Apr 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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RTZ is a must for Six Organs fans and anyone interested in what has since been termed "nu weird folk." [Mar 2009, p.123]- Mojo
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Major General plough's The Hold Steady's punk-pop narrative furrow almost to the point of surrealism. [Sep 2009, p.92]- Mojo
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Josh's melodic intelligence and structural wit keeps things neat. [Apr 2009, p.110]- Mojo
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They confidently harness the emotion-sapping melodramas of the '60s girl group. [Oct 2008, p.108]- Mojo
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Here they sound commanding and convincing as they do on-stage. [Mar 2009, p.111]- Mojo
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Folie A Deux recalls the high-impact pop oof "Private Eyes"-era Hall & Oates, and that's preferable to sounding like Blink 182. [Jan 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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The first side's carnal workouts are muscular of beat, but let down by Common's awkward dirty-talk....The more 'conscious' ssecond half plays better. [Feb 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith may not make as many dollars these days, but they still have a winning way with their slouching, filthy funk. [Feb 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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'Lifelong Passion' and 'Don't Stop Running' suggest that there's something inspirational, even cathartic, about making an album under an assumed name (even if the world know it's you). McCartney should do it more often. [Dec 2008, p.111]- Mojo
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It is his most facinating, and bewildering, record to date. [Jan 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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It's at once plush and anodyne, both insatiable and confined. [Dec 2008, p.100]- Mojo
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The singer's second solo album is far removed from VR's ass-kicking hard rock. [Feb 2009, p.108]- Mojo
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The sun's gone out and here is the soundtrack to our long, dark financial winter. [Mar 2009, p.114]- Mojo
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Chinese Democracy reveals itself to be an ambitious, brave and expansive offering. [Feb 2009, p.108]- Mojo
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Lange hasn't changed Nickelback wholesale: mostly, they still rock like a post-grunge Metallica. [Jan 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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There's something for anyone with a taste for things multicoloured and marvellously eclectic. [Nov 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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He's walking away on style, delivering a collection of distinctive songs. [Nov 2009, p.97]- Mojo
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Its such an embarrassment of riches it actually seems preposterous that everything here was produced in just four years. [Dec 2008, p.118]- Mojo
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If the spirit of punk and the brawn of US hardcore is to be found anywhere today then it is in this, the third dazzling full-length album by The Bronx. [Jan 2008, p.110]- Mojo
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These sweetly sad songs of grown up, imperfect romance reach their height with a jazzy version of Hawley's own 'Coles Corner,' where dreams and reality intermingle around Sheffield's now-demolished romatic rendezvous of the same name. [Dec 2008, p.100]- Mojo
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No one's about to mistake them for Sonic Youth, but the sheen of easy listening has been stripped away, and they sound all the better for it. [Oct 2008, p.110]- Mojo
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His reliably nerdular delivery and thoughtful lyrics still make it sound box-fresh compared to the generic macho fare that still dominates mainstream hip hop. [Dec 2008, p.100]- Mojo
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Play sees Nashville superstar Paisley jam with an array of equally adroit pickers. [Dec 2008, p.111]- Mojo
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It's great that the music is allowed to live in the moment, but the inevitable live albums are hardly essential purchases. [Dec 2008, p.112]- Mojo
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Silence is not an option when Hyvonen is this witty and brazen. [Mar 2009, p.115]- Mojo
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Fans of mavericks like Mark Stewart, and indeed Mr. Van Vilet, should investigate. [Feb 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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Boldness has its own reward in the big grime beats, tension-filled horns and cold self-loathing of Mercury. [Nov 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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Occasionally they stumble, as on the clunky 'Warboys.' But with Rogers imperious, Queen's second coming is vindicated. [Oct 2008, p.100]- Mojo
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Off With Their Heads deftest creations may fall just short of the Kasier Chief debut's ruddy-faced string of exhuberant big hitters, 'Never Beat A Beat,' 'Addicted To Drugs' and the huge 'Like You Too Much' are still sizeable cut above some of "Yours Truely's" tepid misfires. [Nov 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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Their third album is more highly evolved than what normally constitutes straight up good-time rock. [Feb 2009, p.105]- Mojo
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The four-piece line-up allows for some breathing space amid the existential shitstorm. [Dec 2008, p.101]- Mojo
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A Hundred Million Suns sounds like a holding pattern for Snow Patrol. [Nov 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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Microcastle could be 4AD's best release in well over a decade. [Dec 2008, p.108]- Mojo
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This is a good album, but there's a pull between the commercial and the more left-field. [Dec 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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Like the rest of this moving album, it whispers in the dark instead of hitting you in the face. [Dec 2008, p.110]- Mojo
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Unfortunately the reality doesn't quite live up to the concept, because unuually for Squarepusher it isn't quite bonkers enough. [Dec 2008, p.100]- Mojo
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Alight Of Night is devoid of current context, making for a weird timelessness. A treat. [Mar 2009, p.108]- Mojo
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That these and a tranche of equally alluring gems were never released during Russell's lifetime only adds to their poignancy. [Dec 2008, p.104]- Mojo
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Car Alarm offers a fine entry point into the quartet's breezy soundworld. [Nov 2008, p.110]- Mojo
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Lightburn continues to enthral though, his heartfelt, inventive arrangements testament to many questing hours in the studio. [Dec 2008, p.112]- Mojo
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Though he can give good ballad he mostly sticks to what suits his gritty vocal and his attitude best: speed-grass. [Dec 2008, p.108]- Mojo
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On opener 'Satellites,' with Neu!-like locomotion, big guitars and electronics, and melodic twists, they trump their better-known neighbours. [Dec 2008, p.111]- Mojo
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This first widely available release is a superb distillation of the duo's talents. [Dec 2008, p.112]- Mojo
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This is a rariety--bright, soulful and (yes) clever pop. [Mar 2009, p.114]- Mojo
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His solo debut is, however, a robust proposition, not as his former band but certainly not the alt country indulgence implied by label and name. [Apr 2009, p.103]- Mojo
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LLFR! is a skiffle-ish, gung-ho affair built upon driving acoustic guitar and organ. [May 2009, p.102]- Mojo
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"Back In Back" it ain't, but it's certainly a real return to form. [Nov 2008, p.102]- Mojo
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Oldham's typically weary, wavering larynx is rendered imperious as it rises Lazarus-like from the wind-tanned dronescapes and rasping harmonues of an epic 'Cursed Sleep,' while a mistily brooding 'Ain't You Wealthy? Ain't You Wise?' finds him deploying unlikely falsetto whoops a la springsteen. [Nov 2008, p.110]- Mojo
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The trio have bounced back from frontman Tim Rice-Oxley's surprise 2006 stinct in rehab by discovering the '80s. And not in a good way. [Nov 2008, p.108]- Mojo