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
    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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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Greying at the edges, its tremor more pronounced, his voice is sober, honest, defiant. And it turns rock songs into something that sounds as old as the hills.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A stoner's paradise from start to finish. Most pleasurable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They have an inherent gift for the split-second pause, the cool coda, the scene-stealing lyric. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 11-song tracklist forgoes perennials such as Touch Me I'm Sick for lesser-spotted nuggets like Fuzzgun '91, a splenetic thrash through Roxy Music's Editions Of You and the Heart-sore epic Broken Hands. [Feb 2018, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Adept at expressing keenly observed details in a Beat vernacular, he makes excellent use of a 14-piece string section and more drum machines than are typical for him. [Jul 2022, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Explosions In The Sky are true masters of their craft. [Apr 2007, p.102]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This pan-generational Jones/Dap-Kings team have been injecting new vitality into a classic form since 2002, and the people will certainly want their strong new soul album. [Feb 2014, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Never less than inventive. [Jul 2006, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall, this is pretty near perfect. [Dec 2013, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proves Mark E. Smith's gang have lost nothing of the power to surprise. [Nov 2005, p.104]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On all these fabulous tales, Gira's voice remains reassuringly salty. [May 2005, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The band's bluegrass, country-folk and doo wop-informed debut packs a front porch charm. [May 2014, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Respite is infrequent with Blanck Mass, but when it arrives, its effects are heightened. [Sep 2019, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    150 minutes of challenging, organic electronica. [Apr 2013, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Magic Numbers have made one of the records--perhaps the record--that 2005 is destined to be remembered for. [Jul 2005, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A typically heartfelt and demonstrative record given to wistful glances backward. [Aug 2006, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His most satisfying album in a decade. [Dec 2006, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The tonal similarities of these tracks blend into one another, holding only half of your attention like the soundtrack of an imagined film. [Apr 2011, p.105]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Hotly tipped Ipswich rapper's expansive debut. [July 2011, p. 112]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Three of the tracks pass the 13-minute mark, but not a second is wasted. [Aug. 2011, p. 100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Listeners who have enjoyed the prolific jazz pianist;s preoccupation with moody rock material will be delighted and unsurprised at his choices of vehicle here. [Oct 2012, p.82]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fluttering, arpeggiated melodies, ice-crisp percussion and muscular beats mean tracks like Ya Po kick hard and linger long on the palette. [May 2014, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] stripped-down, beautifully stark and simple new album. [Sep 2014, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Superbly eerie and echoey evocations such as View From The Mirror and The Golden Bough don't need big productions to make your ears prick up, just their disturbing use of minor chords and subtle sound effects. [Dec 2014, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The material is cleverly sourced. [Mar 2015, p.97]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is killer stuff, with Randolph providing a supply of unbelievable sacred steel licks. [Jul 2015, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Occasionally there is so much going on it's dizzying--haunting, vulnerable You is a welcome break. [Sep 2015, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs and melody remain paramount in this irresistible Technicolor world. [Sep 2015, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Maker's vocal may be Thom Yorke-like, falsetto lift0-invcluded, but that equidistant spellbound bittersweet spot is Aero Flynn's outright. [Sep 2015, p.91]
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