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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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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Negative: 34 out of 10505
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The Darkness swoop dangerously close to parody, but pull off the dizzying, sublime soprano hi-jinks of I Believe In A Thing Called Love, the deft pop-rock of Friday Night and Love On The Rocks WIth Ice's overbearing machismo with the grace of seasoned circus acrobats. [Aug 2003, p.98]- Mojo
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With greater degrees of deliberate construction than Mers De Noms, Thirteenth Step is more cohesive band effort, less ad hoc side project. [Nov 2003, p.132]- Mojo
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As Mayaer talks himself in circles you hear an artist facing massive success, and retreating from it. [Dec 2003, p.112]- Mojo
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This is an album of stadium sized melodies and exquisite songwriting, allied with almost too many ideas. [Jun 2003, p.110]- Mojo
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Epic, lyrical, and as ultimately old-fashioned as those words suggest. [Oct 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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For every song that reacts against the last album, another chimes perfectly with its mood of epic redemption. [Sep 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Enough memorable moments to make this the first Catholics album worthy of your love and attention. [Sep 2003, p.113]- Mojo
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The lyrics are full of fleeting assignations and gruff, bumper-sticker wisdoms, apparently seeking to draw hard-bitten romance from the business of being in a band. [Jul 2003, p.107]- Mojo
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Passionoia doesn't quite match [The Facts of Life], but the best bits are immaculate. [Mar 2003, p.109]- Mojo
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The results career from interesting to neglibile. [Aug 2003, p.95]- Mojo
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Powerful and anthemic, the trio's driving, Goth-forsaken rock can also be overwhelming and cloying. [Sep 2003, p.99]- Mojo
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The danger with this kind of project is sounding like a '70s revue, but Rouse avoids that with his intimate vocal style and quirky songwriting. [Sep 2003, p.104]- Mojo
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There's a real sense of party-beneath-the-scaffold much of the time--a looseness you don't often get on these star-studded affairs. [Nov 2003, p.122]- Mojo
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Comes on like an evil Duran Duran making future music for damaged teens.... It's both disturbingly compelling and very, very wrong. [Jun 2003, p.112]- Mojo
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Neptunes' grooves and collaborators score an impressive hit rate. [Sep 2003, p.111]- Mojo
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No huge amounts of new ground broken... but even a mediocre Kraftwerk album is still a work of near-genius. [Sep 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Earthquake Glue sees a return to the satisfyingly stylistic cohesion of 2001's Isolation Drills, ... while retaining the impressionistic aural fug that's so key to the band's appeal. [Sep 2003, p.98]- Mojo
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Musically and vocally, this is Franti's most confident and varied work to date. [Jul 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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An album ragged with last-ditch lunges of fuzz-noise and burnished vocals. [Feb 2004, p.99]- Mojo
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The story feels thrown together in two seconds, and much of it is irredeemably hokey.... In the end, despite its kooky charms, Greendale is just one more lazy Neil Young album. [Sep 2003, p.96]- Mojo
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Faced with the Kings of Leon's musical savvy, however, it's easy to believe the hype. [Sep 2003, p.104]- Mojo
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Ha Ha Sound reveals that the band still have a penchant for 3/4 time, still transcend their cinematic influences effortlessly, and Trish Keenan still conjures wondrous lyrical evocations of unspecific tenderness and yearning. [Aug 2003, p.98]- Mojo
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They've got groove, feeling, and they regurgitate these moods and riffs with the same gleeful spirit as did the people they're nicking 'em from. [Aug 2003, p.99]- Mojo
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Ultimately, though, the resolutely rubbish recordings--distorted, trebly drum breaks, scratchy guitars, monotonous voices--and near-total absence of melody, might test your stamina for mindless entertainment. [May 2003, p.104]- Mojo
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Grohl's pounding presence throughout lifts Killing Joke right back to the savage intensity of their early records.... The best punk album in years. [Aug 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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Plenty of smokey psychedelia, country-rockin' fun and damn fine tunes. [Oct 2003, p.122]- Mojo
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Her sultry rasp--think Nancy Sinatra meets Bettye Lavette--delivers disquieting, brooding self-penned originals over warped, folk-tinged, electric blues. [Sep 2003, p.110]- Mojo
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A fabulous record, a baffling, joyful, touching, frustrating, silly, totally seductive album that you can lose yourself in for an hour, a day, a week. [Aug 2003, p.92]- Mojo
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The best of The Trouble With Being Myself finds Gray grinning. [Jun 2003, p.98]- Mojo
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Some may bemoan the lack of scope in these hushed meditations.... But more will find comfort in the warm surrender of The Clientele's aesthetic. [Sep 2003, p.113]- Mojo
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Adheres to the simple formula that worked so successfully on her debut, combining fluid, mid-tempo grooves with infectious vocal hooks. [Sep 2003, p.110]- Mojo
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As nuts as they are, The Mars Volta recall the raw potential rock held before it was castrated by radio programmers and corporate control. [Aug 2003, p.99]- Mojo
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Their continued presence is reassuring, confirming that there are enough people sufficiently interested in old-fashioned rap music to ensure the group's survival. And this album, logically, is made for those listeners, not to pander to a theoretical multitude. [Aug 2003, p.94]- Mojo
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Mostly you're left with the sensation that the quickie you so hotly anticipated wasn't what you were looking for after all. [Sep 2003, p.104]- Mojo
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It's not so much that the most singularly talented and important soul singer of now has let us down, more she's tried too hard to please. [Sep 2003, p.105]- Mojo
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Much sparser and looser than we are used to from David Sylvian. [Sep 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Promise of Love's cyclical episodes unravel at an amenable mid-pace, each one allowed just enough time to establish a mood bfore halting as over-familiarity threatens. [Jul 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Quirky, detail-rich arrangements nodding at dub and death metal. [Jun 2003, p.108]- Mojo
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Represents an ultramodern rock masterpiece, low-key yet ominous, offering new yet comforting ways of singing familiar tunes. [Jul 2003, p.98]- Mojo
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These songs cut too deep to be pastiche.... A lovely record of enormous warmth. [Jun 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Finds them fine-tuning their class act, Dickon Hinchcliffe's choice string arrangements underpinning a typically careworn set. [Jul 2003, p.107]- Mojo
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Unfortunately, on Soft Spot [Eef Barzelay] strays too often into the pleasantly nondescript. [Jul 2003, p.112]- Mojo
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Their signature tension between black blues gestures adn white boy harmonies has never been more vividly exploited than here. It'll keep you busy for months. [Jun 2003, p.95]- Mojo
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Celebrates the little people with full powerpop majesty. [Jul 2003, p.108]- Mojo
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As the concerns that drive Lytle's lyrics lift out, the well-known tremulous quiver and fragile vocals become increasingly irreplaceable, the perfect medium for songs about articulating the intangible. [Jun 2003, p.94]- Mojo
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It recollects emotion with a raging tranquillity, artistic objectivity overruling self-pity. [Jul 2003, p.110]- Mojo
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These intimate hushes and lilts would be remarkable even as instrumentals.... Yet it's Nastasia's voice--and the words that it sings--that really sucks the air out of the room. [July 2003, p.102]- Mojo
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An intriguing companion to DM's Songs of Faith and Devotion, heady with the lexicon of addiction and redemption. [Jun 2003, p.110]- Mojo
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Beats click and rumble while Jewel simpers baby-doll vocals which sound deflatingly calculated. [Oct 2003, p.114]- Mojo
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Sometimes their brutish irreverence works.... But Audio Bullys' vignettes of suburban lad-life can't quite equal Mike Skinner's deft way with a lyric. [Jul 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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Sounds like an all-girl early Beastie Boys.... The politics, though, are somewhat sounder. [May 2003, p.99]- Mojo
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Whether this leaves you head-scratching or dancing like an electrified monkey, it certainly won't bore you. [Jul 2003, p.109]- Mojo
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The balance between Joe's resigned words and uplifting melodies remains sublime. [Aug 2003, p.100]- Mojo
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Occasionally gestures towards greatness, but remains earthbound for the most part. [Sep 2003, p.112]- Mojo
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Delivers some great tunes in tight, concentrated blasts, but sets them behind a gauze of distortion that gives the impression they are gradually fraying around the edges. [Apr 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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For every aching melodic twist and sagacious lyric, there's a lumpy, sub-Beach Boys dirge and dicing-with-doggerel couplet to negotiate. [Mar 2003, p.103]- Mojo
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On a couple of tracks here he feels the need to introduce some lame house beats and equally passe drum'n'bass, which is a shame because the rest of the time he creates a vocabulary that's utterly his own. [Jun 2003, p.100]- Mojo
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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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For a genre whose young bands are increasingly concerned with girls and girls only, the Alkaline Trio have delivered an album offering far more than the pink blush of awkward adolescence. [Jul 2003, p.108]- Mojo
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Paul proves this production pioneer can still turn in brilliant beats when he wants to. [Jul 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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Cex moves slightly away from his former snot and swagger towards more humble inflection. [Jun 2003, p.108]- Mojo
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Glazed soul music that's both lucid and ambiguous, that chimes simultaneously with Donna Summer, John Barry and Suicide, beautifully schizophrenic and poised on the edge of ruin. [May 2003, p.91]- Mojo
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Invigorating and intriguing, as hummable as it is inventive... it's also possibly the best thing Blur have done. [May 2003, p.88]- Mojo
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In part gripping.... But Gore doesn't always push his voice to its brilliantly effete/effeminate extremes. [May 2003, p.104]- Mojo
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This record is full of surprises, roping in all manner of esoteria for a sweaty, beer-splattered and tune-drenched rock'n'roll party that rivals even Nevermind for balancing the pop sugar with the twisted underbelly and subtle smarts. [May 2003, p.90]- Mojo
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A phenomenal album.... As always, Wire embrace the technology of the day while always sounding somehow out of time. [May 2003, p.91]- Mojo
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Shine is an intriguing portrait of a civilised chap in turmoil. [Apr 2003, p.110]- Mojo
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