Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,505 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Hundred Dollar Valentine
Lowest review score: 10 Milk Cow Blues
Score distribution:
10505 music reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is jazz in its loosest, least bridled sense, blurred to shimmering, impressionistic effect. [Aug 2020, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sister have turned that pain and drama into this elegantly nuanced third album. [Mar 2021, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song Of Co-Aklan definitively affirms Coughlan's place amid Ireland's poetic pantheon. [Apr 2021, p.80]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    McLaughlin's inner creative fire is till burning brightly on Liberation Time. [Sep 2021, p.78]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    May prove to be one of the most beautiful, tangentially produced artefacts of our strange and uncertain times. [Dec 2021, p.82]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Built around minimalist synth sequences that are slow-building and tense, with agitated pin-prick rhythms and pulsing stabs evoking a vastness of space and associated emotional states. [Jan 2022, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its class is unmistakable, surpassing even the low-slung gait of 1995's previous career milestone Smokers delight. [Dec 2021, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For all Wild Loneliness's concerns about our ailing world, it's unmistakably a tonic. It's also a life-affirming thank-you note for what we have left. [Apr 2022, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His own poetic, empathetic songs have a knack of turning modern ills into careworn country classicism. [May 2022, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His singing, always restrained, is so low-key that it risks losing the listener's attention, but the playing supplies the feeling. [Aug 2022, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The star is Derek Trucks' sweeping washes of whooshes that wrap the five tunes in a warm blanket, 12-minute ender Pasaquan showcasing his stinging, dexterous, raga-blues brilliance. [Aug 2022, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sound of an artist surfacing from his dank hypogean world and embracing a new warmth. [Aug 2022, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Allen turned 98 this year, yet the fire still burns brightly - his otherworldly creations keeping faith with his Afrofuturist mentor's grand design. [Nov 2022, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Palomino is a wholly convincing bid for wider recognition. [Dec 2022, p.84]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This jazz grandee has nothing to prove, but his quest for a deeper understanding of the human spirit is encapsulated by Sacred Thread. [Dec 2022, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King Of A Land is an elegant, warmly orchestrated work. [Jul 2023, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've just turned their hazy daze up to 11. [Sep 2023, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Georgas's blend of vintage new wave with quirky ethereality includes touching haikus and lullabies, but it's the pissed-off frankness that wins out. .... Gorgeously cathartic. [Oct 2023, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The necessary and sustaining art-yin to their live knees-ups’ yang, with Theatre Of The Absurd… Madness have made an album that is among their absolute best. [Jan 2024, p.90]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The former Bedales pupil's steely vocals and ear for a big melody amidst the intricacy offer a unifying and satisfying undertow. [Feb 2024, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They're more straightforward than they've ever been. .... They're not slackening. [May 2024, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yet for all the luxuriant, Gong-like dreaminess of I Surrender or Imagine An Orchestra, sudden beats and vocal hooks make Delight more unpredictable odyssey than easy float downstream. [May 2024, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a rare delight to hear a band so accomplished take what it does so seriously without taking itself that way. [Jul 2024, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here, the 36 unreleased tracks (albeit including alternate or instrumental versions of the LP cuts) highlight the outside influences that each brought to the table. [Sep 2024, p.96]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Through it all, Metheny’s sole medium is a guitar built by luthier extraordinaire Linda Manzer. Thanks to his cloistered affair with the instrument, everybody wins. [Aug 2024, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ever unpredictable and inspired, >>>> is anything but run-of-the-mill. [Aug 2024, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    BASIC speak their own language, but it’s not long before their signs and signals unfold into a fascinating new conversation. [Oct 2024, p.82]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a nuanced, multi-layered insight into Raczynski's increasingly becalmed world. [Jan 2025, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An often beautiful, occasionally intimidating 48-minute environment piece. [Mar 2025, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Storytime and Greensward Days showcase Andy Strickland's thoughtful guitar work, Dr Clarke essays a home counties kind of Pebbles psychedelia while Ten Years celebrates the quiet joys of 60-something man chat. [Apr 2025, p.78]
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