Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,507 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:
10507 music reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More muscular, less ethereal than 2007's "...Are The Dark Horse," it is no less exciting. [Apr 2010, p.99]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An extraordinary record... It's not, nor is it intended to be, easy listening. [Sep 2004, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Doomed to the shadows of Flying Nun's more famed exponents, this box set should finally rehabilitate the band. [Sep 2015, p.103]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An intriguing blend of countrified, down-tempo acoustic charm. [Nov 2015, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Material arcane yet relevant, as well as freshly minted. [Oct 2018, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A set glorying in its sensual exoticism. [Jan 2007, p.102]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're left with the impression that Lower Dens are both big sounding and very clever. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The overriding tone recalls Lana Del Rey's gothic torch song elegies, albeit with far more economy and less overacting. [Dec 2015, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Few albums meld frank postcards from the psyche with such poppy directness. [Apr 2016, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A progression in Blake's music, his melodies less elusive, his productions less ethereal. [Mar 2019, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sense of closure pervades here. The group's hermeticism-influenced lyrics remain cryptic as ever, it's true, but TSOOL will be missed. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fresh Blood’s 10 tracks span an impressive spread of moods.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a cohesion and thrust to the fusion, a mathematically bracing energy that they have't quite located since 2011's D. [Apr 2019, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is memorable music for exceptional times. [Nov 2020, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a coherent entity which should be heard as a whole. [May 2023, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As with 2023's downbeat Everything Harmony, what might be a Beatles-beach-Boys-Big-Star data-scrape is elevated through high-calibre songwriting. [Jun 2024, p.82]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Django Django confound because they sound gloriously, unpredictably new, but also recall past bands and sounds gone. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No more the quieter introspection and reflection of solo tracks like Hormones or Fever Dream – here Thorn and Watt are a combined force, capturing the giddy euphoria and release of the club experience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thunderstorm Warnings doesn't put a foot wrong, delivering the big music with heart instead of bluster. [Mar 2021, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Con rockets beyond even their own high standards. [Mar 2008, p.103]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Performance is White Denim's most produced album, thickly textured with brass, keyboards and studio atmospheres. Play it loud, though, and you easily imagine the euphoria at the bar after every track. [Sep 2018, p.84]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is Hogan's first solo album in 11 years and her best. [Aug 2012, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Black Age Blues is satisfyingly solid and reassuringly familiar a comeback as you'd expect. [Jul 2015, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Goat Girl grapple with strings, makeshift choirs, electronics and mellotron in a quietly exploratory set of off-centre tunes and potent lyrical questioning. [Jul 2024, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    i,i never sounds less than excellent, with wide-open acoustic/electric audio structures allowing pizzicato strings to waft through and rising clouds of horns to blow in unexpectedly. It really is bleeding edge stuff. [Oct 2019, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smith's best, most satisfying album to date. [Mar 2005, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A delectable-sounding record slathered in guitar magic: what’s not to like?
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Italian-blooded debutante rocks passionately. [March 2011, p. 96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    44 minutes of scourging song broken up by ambient drone, terrifying din and choral interludes - is both uncompromising and brilliant. [Aug 2023, p.85]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though the lyrics sometimes explore the US's increasingly polarised political allegiances, Leithauser's passionate optimism and the record's grooving drums keeps our spirits up until mesmeric guitar arpeggios usher in the beautifully pensive title track/closer. [Apr 2025, p.79]
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