Mojo's Scores
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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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Negative: 34 out of 10505
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Ramona has a very on-Broadway energy. There are occasional Blue Hotel lapses, but I'm Getting Married To The War or A Precious Thing come across like a rock opera Aldous Harding, while title track - inspired by Bob Dylan's 1964 song To Ramona - is the third curtain-call Patti Smith. The force of her voice alone earths these songs. [May 2024, p.86]- Mojo
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There's some really good songs here - Creature From The Wild is classic Fruit Bats, Moon's Too Bright is a beauty, and so is his moving cover of the Incredibke String Band song First Girl I loved - but the overall feeling is of an abandoned demo album [Nov 2025, p.93]- Mojo
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The majority of Not Too Late hums with a placid darkness and neurosis which is as delicious as it is unexpected. [Feb 2007, p.104]- Mojo
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As for her voice, that's still a remarkably sassy tool. [Nov 2004, p.108]- Mojo
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Small Black are more convincing when they move into sharper focus. [Dec 2010, p.96]- Mojo
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Nelson has impeccable taste in cover versions. [May 2013, p.87]- Mojo
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[A] ragged rock 'n' roll debut with vigorous grit, while Robbie Crowell's drawled, anecdotal lyrics add dive-bar sleaze. [May 2013, p.96]- Mojo
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This trance-inducing seven-piece evoke arcane loci, spirits and serpents. [Oct 2013, p.98]- Mojo
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Surrounded by punchy horn and a rhythm section that knows its Duck Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr., this is one Paperboy who delivers. [Jun 2010, p.102]- Mojo
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Best savoured as a whole, a magical mystery of Pollard's pop-obsessed, haphazardly-filed subconscious. [Feb 2006, p.107]- Mojo
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It sounds like the soundtrack to an odd dream about a Western film. [Mar 2013, p.96]- Mojo
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She's somehow too like several other singers and perhaps too unambitious a writer to immediately engage novitiates. [Mar 2003, p.114]- Mojo
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It drifts rudderlessly in places, but at its best... it's among Tortoise's most persuasive music to date. [Apr 2004, p.108]- Mojo
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While this delicately wistful set is hardly a great leap forward for Zero 7, one thing is certain: you'll be hearing it everywhere this year. [Mar 2004, p.104]- Mojo
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Much of the remainder, however, plays a depressingly straight bat with mainstream thrills. [Aug 2015, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Jul 6, 2015 -
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A surfeit of wilfully sibilant '80s keyboard sounds notwithstanding, there's little to dislike. [May 2009, p.103]- Mojo
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This new nightmare falls short of the original, with several songs misfiring. [Nov 2011, p.93]- Mojo
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HDBA embrace cyclic faux-Krautrock, robust electronic rhythms, looped vocal phrases and miscellaneous soundtrack atmospheres. [May 2012, p.92]- Mojo
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With the frustrating Violent Light, Wilson has surrendered his own persona. [Apr 2014, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Mar 21, 2014 -
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There's little obvious mind expansion in these long-haired ruminations on modern living, but Rose Windows still have the power to lift listeners far out of the everyday. [Jun 2015, p.92]- Mojo
Posted May 20, 2015 -
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In louder and busier sections it's easy to lose the text and there's no melody as consolation. [Aug. 2011, p. 94]- Mojo
Posted Nov 22, 2011 -
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While the power-soak guitar solos ard gung-ho buck of Crazy Horse are present and correct, it's curious that Americana packs songs that don't fit its brief. [Jul 2012, p.88]- Mojo
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The result is a dazzlingly crafted bunch of hazy, West Coast pop gems stuffed with Santanaesque six-string wizardry. [Mar 2014, p.91]- Mojo
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The gap between theoretical mind-blowing freakout and actual indie underpinnings remains acute, however, as Venusia and Valley Of The Calm Trees suggest Klaxons may just be Mansun with a faster processor. [Sep 2010, p.103]- Mojo
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Synths sway like palm trees, grooves come sun-baked, and nifying message songs flow. [Jul 2020, p.88]- Mojo
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Taken as a whole, these poignant moments never threaten to cohere into a greater whole. [Apr 2010, p.111]- Mojo
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The result is a sulky, euphoric blend of Ramones, Runaways and Cheap Trick, with maddening echoes of Iggy Pop, Ash and The Undertones. [Nov 2014, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Nov 7, 2014 -
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It's a parade of warhorses and they sometimes ride a little wearily, but Winter pepped their steps by four-handed guitar shootouts with Eric Clapton on Don't Want No Woman and Ben Harper in Can't Hold Out. [Oct 2014, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Sep 12, 2014 -
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Their tenth album is grand, moody and elegant in all the right places. [Feb 2015, p.90]- Mojo
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A tightly zipped, anxious, often menacing trawl through personal challenges, offset by Caribbean vocals and rhythms and collaborations. [Mar 2020, p.96]- Mojo
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Posted Nov 23, 2021 -
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The title track and Singularity speak of a trajectory where AI gives a final push to an already cannibalistic pop culture. But this thesis is spiced with joyous synthesis. [Jul 2026, p.91]- Mojo
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The trio have delivered thier most tuneful collection yet. [Oct 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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Holland's singing identity still shifts disconcertingly. [Aug. 2011, p. 92]- Mojo
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This is very much Goodwin's record, the work of a man revelling in his own company. [May 2014, p.88]- Mojo
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Unreservedly recommended, but for the uninitiated and obsessives only. [Nov 2013, p.86]- Mojo
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Less conceptually pure than its predecessor in terms of tone and motivation it may be, but Evil Heat's bespoke tailoring pays dividends time and time again. [Aug 2002, p.94]- Mojo
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As with all Stephin Merritt productions, the real stars are Stephin Merritt's wonderful songs, and the 14 love songs on Hyacinths And Thistles are as sweet and prickly as the title suggests.- Mojo
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Not as immediate as the previous two albums, this one takes time before its effortless flow, interweaving harmonies and low-key chords really sink in. [Aug 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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Big issues... are chewed over with bittersweet humour and musical sophistication. [Nov 2004, p.110]- Mojo
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Given time, fans will warm to Peasant, but ultimately the inconsistency of it's songwriting is a tad disappointing.- Mojo
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The combination of piano and the string ensemble Scoring Berlin has some overlap with sonic contemplations of Max Richter and Arvo Part. But Eno has a distinctive style and picks just the right chord change or string colouration. [May 2022, p.88]- Mojo
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A stopgap while The Gossip work on new material, this album is nonetheless worth the price of a hand-stamp. [May 2008, p.102]- Mojo
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Hands sees the 24-year-old blossom into a throughly modern chart contender, but at the expense of some of that quirkiness. [Jul 2009, p.95]- Mojo
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She sings of global suffering, emotional loss and female power in a way that's occasionally overwrought--but always packs a punch. [Oct 2007, p.92]- Mojo
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Walk The River is far more direct and carries a mood of singer-songwriter writ (very) large. [May 2011, p.105]- Mojo
Posted May 17, 2011 -
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If your perfect musical Venn diagram contains Oneohtrix Point Never, Machinedrum and Terry Riley, Suicideyear will satisfy your equation. [Oct 2014, p.93]- Mojo
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The "sonically exploratory" nature of Hurley occasionally serves Weezer's boredom threshold better than it does the songs. [Nov 2010, p.103]- Mojo
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Flute and horn fight for breath alongside swampy vocals, and a heavy-handed rock bombast doesn't hide a dearth of hooks or memorable pop melody. [Sep 2007, p.110]- Mojo
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A quirky, theatrical record that's full of pomp and self-importance, The Family Jewels is never less than exciting, but it does try a little too hate to be zany. [Mar 2010, p.100]- Mojo
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New material like See What Love Did To Me sits well alongside these [four songs from 1967's New Masters album]. [Oct 2017, p.91]- Mojo
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The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again - the sequel to his 1973 solo debut - repeats the formula, its 12 covers of country standards and downhome favourites creating a warm, hearthside companion to its predecessor. [Dec 2009, p. 91]- Mojo
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Rebel Heart is the first Madonna album for a while that's at least as much for listeners as it is for dancers. Sometimes this shines too hard a light on what she has to say. [Apr 2015, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Mar 19, 2015 -
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For the most part still playing it breakneck and fuzz-covered, their trademark garage-scuzz-meets-hardcore blitzkreig is if anything more rough-riffed and faster. [Mar 2005, p.101]- Mojo
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What's disappointing is how evenly-tempoed and sedate the pace is. [Jun 2005, p.95]- Mojo
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With four tracks topping 12 miutes, it's essentially a celebration of pre-punk boffin-rock, 'The Best Of Times 'and 'The Count Of Tuscany' both prog-metal masterpieces worthy of imperial-phase Rush. [Jul 2009,p.95]- Mojo
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The resulting album is an impressive country-soul-meets pop hybrid, with Pritchard's powerful honey-toned vocals framed by some deft and sometimes dramatic production touches from White. [Nov 2010, p.108]- Mojo
Posted Dec 16, 2010 -
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No scrabbling for a shot at Wichita Lineman or Galveston this time out. [Dec 2013, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Nov 25, 2013 -
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The latest outing from the Icelandic quartet may not possess quite such drama [as John Grant's Pale Green Ghosts], but there's plenty to admire here. [Aug 2014, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Jul 2, 2014 -
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Ultimately, Chasing Yesterday is an assured second step on Noel Gallagher’s solo path--more sure-footed lyrically, while bearing a very becoming new-found musical spaciness.- Mojo
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There's enough bittersweet emotion to ensure his own personality seeps through. [Jul 2015, p.96]- Mojo
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There are points of similarity here with Kraftwerk, particularly on Clockwork, the electro and house styles of '8-s Cabaret Voltaire, the pumping bears if Front 242, and also the percolating sequencers of Favtory Floor. [Oct 2016, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Sep 26, 2016 -
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One for the fans delighted he's still here and fascinated by how such classic songs started out. [Jan 2022, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Nov 22, 2021 -
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No boundaries are being broken this around, but Living Colour still hold their own. [Jan 2010, p. 102]- Mojo
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The record's near-constant gloom and woolly arrangements are difficult to digest. [Feb 2004, p.99]- Mojo
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But once you settle into its desolate vista – and, believe me, it’ll take a few plays – 10,000 Hz Legend becomes just as addictive as its ancestor.- Mojo
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Hello Happiness is indeed groove heavy, but gives too little for a singer of Chaka's ability to, well, sing - which is a shame, because on the occasions she does find space to stretch out her soaring voice seems to have retained its strength, tone and power. [Mar 2019, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Feb 15, 2019 -
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Josh conjures a light, affectless mood which quietly promises happiness without ever sliding into schmaltz. [May 2006, p.100]- Mojo
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Where her previous band, Williamburg's The Jealous Girlfiends, struggled to reconcile an awkward mix of styles, the vision on Miranda's solo debut is seemless. [Mar 2009, p.90]- Mojo
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In total, a pleasant, charm-filled release but no great addition to the Nelson canon. [Feb 2015, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Feb 2, 2015 -
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There's often been a whiff of contrivance around the Avetts, but by coming of age they come up smelling of roses. [Aug 2016, p.92]- Mojo
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He and his guests have history, but the second half of Mountains might have benefited from fewer backing singers - however good, they over-egg the songs. [Sep 2023, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2023 -
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Closer listening finds thin-voiced New Yorker Andrew Wyatt undercutting the Swedish Britney Spears producers' sleek earworms with sing-along melancholy. [Apr 2016, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Feb 23, 2016 -
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The result, unfortunately, is one of the dreariest hours you will even spend listening to music. [Aug 2009, p.100]- Mojo
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This is no holding exercise. Instead, think beautifully conceived curio. [Apr 2023, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Feb 22, 2023 -
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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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The brooding Last Night On Earth places Ranaldo in a seductively meditative setting. [Dec 2013, p.88]- Mojo
- Posted Nov 25, 2013
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The Detroit budget-punks follow last year's eponymous art-scuzz by zinging through 12 anthemic amp-melters in 26 minutes. [Feb 2011, p.989]- Mojo
Posted Apr 4, 2011 -
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It's a bloodless, disembodied album, rarely flushed with human warmth. [May 2013, p.94]- Mojo
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Too much of it passes by easily, leaving little lasting impression. [Aug 2005, p.101]- Mojo
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Be Your Own King is somewhat hobbled, though, by a flat, dense production from The Do's Dan Levy. [Mar 2013, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Feb 15, 2013 -
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Has a first-person directness and grunge-schooled contrasting of melody with clamour. [Feb 2021, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Feb 9, 2021 -
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Rarely has any modern band made The Difficult Third Album sound so breezy... [May 2001, p.96]- Mojo
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Promise Of The Real--ie, Willie Nelson’s son Lukas et al--prove superb foils for this sludge guitar god/master melody maker, hence the harmony-rich chorus of Already Great sounds exactly that immediately, and the horn-bolstered power-chords of resistance anthem Children Of Destiny are just breathtaking.- Mojo
- Posted Dec 8, 2017
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