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 |
Score distribution:
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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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This is jazz in its loosest, least bridled sense, blurred to shimmering, impressionistic effect. [Aug 2020, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Aug 6, 2020 -
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The sister have turned that pain and drama into this elegantly nuanced third album. [Mar 2021, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Feb 4, 2021 -
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Song Of Co-Aklan definitively affirms Coughlan's place amid Ireland's poetic pantheon. [Apr 2021, p.80]- Mojo
Posted Mar 26, 2021 -
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McLaughlin's inner creative fire is till burning brightly on Liberation Time. [Sep 2021, p.78]- Mojo
Posted Sep 1, 2021 -
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May prove to be one of the most beautiful, tangentially produced artefacts of our strange and uncertain times. [Dec 2021, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Nov 9, 2021 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Dec 21, 2021 -
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Its class is unmistakable, surpassing even the low-slung gait of 1995's previous career milestone Smokers delight. [Dec 2021, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Jan 4, 2022 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Feb 22, 2022 -
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His own poetic, empathetic songs have a knack of turning modern ills into careworn country classicism. [May 2022, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Mar 18, 2022 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jun 22, 2022 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jul 7, 2022 -
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The sound of an artist surfacing from his dank hypogean world and embracing a new warmth. [Aug 2022, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Sep 28, 2022 -
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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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
Posted Nov 18, 2022 -
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King Of A Land is an elegant, warmly orchestrated work. [Jul 2023, p.89]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
Posted Aug 25, 2023 -
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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]- Mojo
- Posted Nov 20, 2023
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jan 9, 2024 -
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They're more straightforward than they've ever been. .... They're not slackening. [May 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Apr 11, 2024 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Apr 25, 2024 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jun 5, 2024 -
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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]- Mojo
- Posted Jul 26, 2024
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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]- Mojo
Posted Aug 5, 2024 -
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Ever unpredictable and inspired, >>>> is anything but run-of-the-mill. [Aug 2024, p.81]- Mojo
Posted Aug 6, 2024 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Sep 11, 2024 -
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It's a nuanced, multi-layered insight into Raczynski's increasingly becalmed world. [Jan 2025, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Jan 3, 2025 -
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An often beautiful, occasionally intimidating 48-minute environment piece. [Mar 2025, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Feb 4, 2025 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Mar 14, 2025