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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For all its skill you do miss Neville Staple's aggro, Roddy Radiation's punk-Chuck Berry guitars, and inevitably, Jerry Dammers' singular, maddening vision. [Mar 2019, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2019 -
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Flamingo is, for all intents and purpose, the next Killers record. [Oct. 2010, p. 106]- Mojo
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Posted Dec 18, 2013 -
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His tried and trusted writing formula sometimes irritate--about being mistaken for Willie Nelson, about an amateur-sung cover version of Heaven that scored 16 million YouTube hits--are winningly self-effacing and chucklesome. [Dec 2010, p.96- Mojo
Posted Dec 20, 2010 -
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Their penchant for bold riffs and big climaxes comes with little individual grandstanding. [Nov 2022, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Sep 30, 2022 -
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Buxton's posthumous appearance on the raw, Eddie Cochran-esque What Happened To You also shines, but elsewhere things sometimes get formulaic, the horror cod and the guillotine a little blunt. [Aug 2025, p.77]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2025 -
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A more effective synergy arrives as the musicians rein in the melodrama, proffering a subtler, shimmering folk rock canvas for Chesnutt's emotional daubings. [Nov 2009, p.91]- Mojo
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There is quiet drama here--especially on the gothic crawl of Spiders or Home's extended inner-space walk--but sometimes The Soft Cavalry struggle to project it beyond their own moody boundaries, or to find that extra charge. [Aug 2019, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 2, 2019 -
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Big God runs up and down a subtler emotional scale, while the heartfelt Hunger emphasises Welch's admirable desire to connect. Yet High As Hope often feels like The Greatest Showman for people of drinking age, This Is Me for art students--an affirmation, not a challenge. [Aug 2018, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jun 27, 2018 -
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Holy Island nods to mid-period Flying Saucer Attack, Souvlaki-era Slowdive, maximum-shimmer Ride and motorik. Such influences are offset by an innate drama which inexorably draws inwards. There is, though, a potentially overwhelming backstory. [Jan 2026, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Dec 3, 2025 -
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The album's second half-hour wilts, but the first is Temples Excelling as never before. [Jun 2023, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Apr 18, 2023 -
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Brings a little focus--and some memorable tunes--to the proceedings, though Wolf's muse remains doggedly eclectic. [May 2005, p.108]- Mojo
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The best moments on this double CD are those which foreground Valerie Trebeljahr's sighingly lovely vocals. [Aug 2005, p.120]- Mojo
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Unfortunately, the disc highlights a new hole: storytelling. [Feb 2006, p.92]- Mojo
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Posted Jan 28, 2020 -
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Evocative rather than vivid in a way that evokes Faith-era Cure's greyscale atmospheres, Everything IS Alive is the sound of Slowdive still holding their impressive earthly form. [Oct 2023, p.85]- Mojo
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Hourglass plays the "I, an artist" card with equal earnestness, a collection of electronic songs that mix dungeon-master sexual predation with angst-ridden introspection. [Nov 2007, p.104]- Mojo
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Building on the fresh inventiveness of 2017's Uyai, this new album cheerfully chops up and reassembles genres in a way that is seriously funky. [May 2019, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 20, 2019 -
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This debut stands apart, not because it hails from St. Petersburg but for its speedy and electronically iced take on shoegaze. [Mar 2015, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Feb 18, 2015 -
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Glasvegas retain their open-throated passion, anthemicism and the very distinctive Caledonian character of James Allan's voice, but these qualities are now sometimes a little lost in widescreen--like tears in rain, like synths in multi-track. [May 2011, p.105]- Mojo
Posted May 16, 2011 -
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It's difficult to ignore Total's hoovering synths, filtered drums, glam rock rhythms and punkish snarl, such is its fizzing energy. [Jul 2011, p.115]- Mojo
Posted Jun 29, 2011 -
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By the closing traditional, Fair Annie (Child Ballad 62), much of the atmospheric murk has lifted, revealing a radiant kinship with the like of Trees, similarly uncanny folk-rock alchemists from the cusp of the 1970s. [Dec 2018, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Nov 13, 2018 -
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[CD1's] uproar casts most of CD2's over-delicate maunderings in a wan light. [Apr 2006, p.102]- Mojo
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This time around, the radio programmers will be listening harder, but taken as a 68-minute whole, The Electric Lady is quite a trip. [Dec 2013, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Nov 25, 2013 -
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The sentiments charm and Cuomo's nose for a tune endures, but the drive-time metal supremacy of Def Leppard and Mutt Lange is never under serious threat. [Jun 2021, p.84]- Mojo
Posted May 5, 2021 -
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[James Jackson Toth] fleshes out more whiskey-warmed, heart-sore folk with flashes of humour. [Feb 2013, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Jan 18, 2013 -
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It hard not to be engaged by the restless, cerebral daftness--footnotes notwithstanding. [Apr 2019, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Mar 12, 2019 -
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While the material heads nowhere new, there's a good feeling to all that's happening. [Mar 2015, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Feb 18, 2015 -
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In essence a tonic, The Medicine Show is a little bit more of what the world need now. [May 2019, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Apr 11, 2019 -
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This is intended to be the lighter of the two albums although the stylistic differences aren't great. [Jun 2017, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Apr 28, 2017 -
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Only a few moments--Happy, the Daft Punk-featuring Gust Of Wind and I Know Who You Are--sound truly out of the ordinary. [May 2014, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Apr 23, 2014 -
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When the opening track of this third album features CSN-style harmonising about hotel lobbies, you wonder if they're trying a little too hard to sound like a burnt-out folk rock supergroup from 1971. [June 2010, p. 92]- Mojo
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Though the percussive, struck guitar strings interlude Zilch is perhaps an inquiry too far, caroline's flair for conjuring the liminal space between sleep and wakefulness frequently enchants. [Apr 2022, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Feb 25, 2022 -
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[Sid Griffin] hurled all bluegrass boundaries out the window as pride of place on this new album. [Nov 2016, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Dec 2, 2016 -
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In places it verges on doodling, as if Barnett is endlessly tuning her guitar, but tracks such as Intro or Tiver sound darkly majestic, like deep, drifting hollowed-out Americana. [Oct 2023, p.78]- Mojo
Posted Sep 5, 2023 -
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You need to pick through the later albums to find some occasional moments of brilliance. although if you unconditionally love well-executed '70s funky-soul, it's all good! [Mar 2020, p.105]- Mojo
Posted Mar 2, 2020 -
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Pale Blue Eyes' debut album deftly executes a type of electro-inclined pop which initially surfaced as the edges of post-punk softened to embrace melody over angularity. [Sep 2022, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Sep 1, 2022 -
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For a band feeling they had painted themselves into a corner, this is them sodding the consequences and stomping their way out. [Dec 2010, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Dec 20, 2010 -
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With its shuffling drums and strong tune, Microclimate has a song-like feel, while the title track is very different in mood as it gently pulses with restless rhythmic tics and a melancholic, meandering keyboard line. [Sep 2018, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Jul 23, 2018 -
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A mightily approachable and sometimes even fun album. [Nov 2015, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Oct 23, 2015 -
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The trade-off for this grandiloquent approach is that some of the songcraft has been swept away in the surge. [Nov 2011, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Dec 22, 2011 -
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On stand-out New Tracks, singer Joseph Arthur locates a pleasing interface that shades powerpop and balladry. [Jan 2013, p.102]- Mojo
Posted Jan 3, 2013 -
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Jo Bevan declaims like Siouxsie leading The Smiths, on fevered melodies worthy of a band named after a Cure rarity. [May 2017, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Mar 24, 2017 -
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The quieter moments work best, like the moody, organ-led reworking of Shakin' All Over, which lesser bands have thrashed into the ground over the years but really shines here. [Dec 2023, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Nov 2, 2023 -
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Viet Cong aren't quite home yet, but they're getting there. [Mar 2015, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Feb 18, 2015 -
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Texas troubadour's latest tales are his most potent. [March 2011, p. 97]- Mojo
Posted Apr 6, 2011 -
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A typical case of slack self-editing... Kelis was here too long, frankly. [Nov 2006, p.101]- Mojo
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Nothing here truly ventures into the unexpected as [Russell] did, but there was only one Arthur Russell. [Dec 2014, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Nov 19, 2014 -
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So far they make phrases rather than lyrics and sounds rather than songs, but they have a nice semi-chaotic way about them. [Sep 2008, p.108]- Mojo
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Although this is never less than excellent fun, the originals are still the best. [Dec 2010,. p.96]- Mojo
Posted Dec 20, 2010 -
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Hallucinatory sonic landscapes that whistle, throb, sing and buzz like the heightened inner-space rhythms of the body. [Apr 2014, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Mar 26, 2014 -
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The Visitor is curiously passionless and on occassion, too closely tied to its background music references to get excited about. [Nov 2009, p.102]- Mojo
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Lots here is clever and fun, and maybe Oh Snap is an album she needed to make, but heard end to end it's a bumpy ride. [Nov 2025, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Sep 19, 2025 -
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At least Wake Up Now lifts its voice in protest during turbulent times, rising even when it doesn't quite shine. [Oct 2017, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Sep 7, 2017 -
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Part 2 wins with the garage-guitar-pop of Hollywood and the hard edged though sugary Teflon. In keeping with Brix's own memoir, Part 2 suggests that pasts remain unpurged. [Nov 2017, p.100]- Mojo
Posted Oct 3, 2017 -
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Almost every track plays nice sweet-and-sour tricks on the ears. But maximum, piercingly intelligent, heartfelt Crow comes through only in Sending A Letter To God. [Oct 2005, p.98]- Mojo
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You might struggle to identify where their influences end and begin, but Mattiel's charisma - and solid gold tunes, in the form of Lighthouse and the darkly gothic Blood In the yolk - ultimately win out. [Apr 2022, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 16, 2022 -
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Posted Apr 15, 2022 -
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Lyrics are lovably askew and songs rarely breach three-minutes. In conclusion: more is still more. [Mar 2019, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Feb 12, 2019 -
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The sudden shifts between smooth/jarring and soft/hard make for an uncomfortable but compelling ride. [Mar 2008, p.113]- Mojo
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A stylish, stoned variant of leftfield R&B in quick-fire bursts, exhibiting pop smarts, sojourns into shimmering, skewed house. [Apr 2018, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Apr 18, 2018 -
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While the production still feels ill-judged, there are some crackling tracks. [Jun 2016, p.92]- Mojo
Posted May 9, 2016 -
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Posted May 22, 2015 -
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They scrunch together Animal Collective-style off-kilter tech pop, new wave, ghetto bass and even twisted tango. [Jun 2011, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Jun 2, 2011 -
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Better than the conceptual barf of its predecessor Holy Wood, but not as sharp as his best record to date, '98's glammy Mechanical Animals. [Jun 2003, p.100]- Mojo
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Three long, meditative ideals of 49-note microtonal singing. [Dec 2020, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Nov 13, 2020 -
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Occasionally, the buoyancy veers into pop, the clever lyrics verge on trite. [Sep 2013, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Aug 9, 2013 -
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For Carry Fire, Plant has written Lion In Winter love songs. [Nov 2017, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Oct 12, 2017 -
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Heading South On The Great North Road drags, and Pretty Young Soldier, a tale of gender confusion in the military, is slightly laboured. However, most of 57th and 9th has a youthful energy suggesting that Sting hasn't faded yet. [Dec 2016, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Nov 4, 2016 -
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His rueful lyrics are mostly about relationship woes, although Florida Man is more serious, dealing with racism. [Aug 2023, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Jun 29, 2023 -
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Throughout, a twinkly otherworldliness is counterbalanced by rhythmic excursions evoking the passage between one liminal world and another. [Feb 2019, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Dec 17, 2018 -
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Doesn't quite hit home. ... Letting loose more might have benefited the flow. [Mar 2020, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Jan 28, 2020 -
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In a crowded space, The Rakes have a place to call their own. [Apr 2007, p.96]- Mojo
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Rufus Wainwright-goes-to-grad-school lushness dominates, though, and despite Bird's Death Of Marat pose on the cover, My Finest Work is not quite revolutionary. [May 2019, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Mar 20, 2019 -
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No "George Best," perhaps, but a rugged, well-meaning Paul Scholes of a record nonetheless. [July 2008, p.100]- 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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Small Black are more convincing when they move into sharper focus. [Dec 2010, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Dec 20, 2010 -
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Low on polish but high on anything-goes exuberence, in Wavves-world The Beach Boys rub shoulders with Half Japanese, The Shaggs with Guided By Voices and Pavement with JFA, all held together with sneaker laces and stickers to create a bedroom-wall collage as scruffy as it is irresistible. [Aug 2009, p.96]- Mojo
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Repo is a brightly coloured series of aural non sequiturs, its lard-legged beat science peaking with distorted synth-funk jam 'Ultra Vomit Craze.' [May 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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Even if elsewhere the electronic elements occasionally err toward the passe, ultimately, this is as spirited as it is an unexpected cavort through altered sonic pastures. [Jun 2016, p.94]- Mojo
Posted May 9, 2016 -
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It's hardly a career-defining collection. [Sep 2004, p.98]- Mojo
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Though the results are not always easy to take.... The sense of folk and country pervades each and every performance, saving the day. [Sep 2015, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Aug 5, 2015 -
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An intense, trip-hoppy and orchestral examination of love in all its forms. [Dec 2020, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Oct 30, 2020 -
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Sirens proffers another string to his bow, its nine skittering essays overlaying richly textured, genre-melding electronic sound worlds with liminal song "structures." [Nov 2016, p.81]- Mojo
Posted Oct 3, 2016 -
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This trio's brand of piano-fed luminescence is more traditionally coffee-table. That's no criticism, more acknowledgement of their smooth melodic nous. [Oct 2013, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Sep 19, 2013 -
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This likable debut peaks on Everything Apart's breezy kosmische shuffle, and Lennon-ish I'll Be Alright, but its airiness doesn't always work. [Feb 2019, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Dec 17, 2018 -
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In the end you're left with a creeping sense of missed chances, made more painful by the fact the Babyshambles have so obviously raised their game. [Oct 2007, p.88]- Mojo
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Deceptively simple, Watershed highlights what Lang does best--fulsome ballads sung with precision timing, intelligence and a humourous twist. [Jan 2008, p.100]- Mojo
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Sexsmith's mournful voice and lyrical skills, so admired by the likes of Elvis Costello and Neil Finn, detail a world of love and hopeful expectation. It all makes Exit Staretgy... an almost infinitely rich and subtle album. [Sep 2008, p.98]- Mojo
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The results are as scattershot as the guest list. [Mar 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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His nicotine-gritted , hurt-strained voice finds a honeyed foil in Dave Amels' swirling organ, while rhythm section David Wayne Gay and Lance Willie provide R&B warmth and swinging, bar-band stomp. [Dec 2009, p. 96]- Mojo
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Esteemed guests such as flautist Michael McGoldrick, accordionist Phil Cunningham and fiddler John McCusker ornament the arrangements exquistely, while the Knopf's ever-tactile guitar continues to say more with three notes than most do with 20. [Oct 2009103]- Mojo
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But despite its mining of a bygone age, Cosmic Egg has two clear 21st century counterparts. Far Away and Violence of the Sun are the sort of pristine epics found on Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy., while lysergic piledrivers 10,000 Feet and the title track could easily have appeared on Kasabians' West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. [Dec 2009, p. 96]- Mojo