Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,509 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:
10509 music reviews
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Opener Anybody’s declaration of fresh love duly builds with electrifying presence. There follow bare-wire examinations of audience dependency (Lavender, Raspberries) and resurgent desire (In A Dream I’m A Painting), before Sick Of The Blues provides a heartburstingly triumphant ‘choose life’ finale. [Nov 2024, p.84]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This album elicits a powerful aura, which continues to resonate potently several hours, even days, after the last note has died. [Nov 2012, p.82]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A country album of slide guitar, sweet harmonies and heartworn ballads from a landscape on the edge of the unsayable, the kind of high lonesome petitions to the gods Syd Barrett might have made in his flat on the night pink Floyd never turned up.
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Accompanied by electronic and acoustic instruments, Brett's baritone sounds less sombre on this album, more rich, relaxed, even crooning on Strawberry Moon - a perfect foil ro Rennie's vision of a world full of blood and ghosts. [Oct 2023, p.83]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Collaboratively, spiritually and musically... it works superbly. [Mar 2016, p.99]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, this is a masterclass in pop fun. [Mar 2019, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teeming with deftly plucked and delicately pitched melody trails, Whispering Trees stands worthy of its forbears. [Feb 2013, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a dark, delicious humour and true heartbreak in the NY trio's frank yet delicate confessionals. [Apr 2016, p.96]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These evocative originals, inspired by road trips, inevitably reconnect ti her Memphis roots. [Mar 2014, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lurching guitar, chiming piano and stabs of overdubbed choral harmony are combined with vocals that swing from sweetly intimate to dry and flippant. [Mar 2024, p.89]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parts & Labor have made their best album yet. [Apr 2011, p.95]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His fourth album isn't quite as rich a powerpop confection as 2002's "Lapalco" but it still shows off songs as sweet and sharp as peanut brittle. [Sep 2009, p.104]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Even if purists find the whole baroque confection too much, they will have to admit there's never been a record quite like this. [May 2015, p.99]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Machine Stops proves that Dave Brock's sonic adventures still have plenty to say, and inspired ways in which to say it. [Jul 2016, p.95]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] fine, part-politicised follow-up. [Aug 2017, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of Herbert's most engaging work since 2001's Bodily Functions. [Jul 2015, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Disc four's unreleased assortment holds little for Wobble-Levene obsessives. More noteworthy: a disturbingly atonal Banging The Door, two abstract thumpathons from '81-83's "lost" fourth album, some speculative Album demos, and a n instrumental stab at Led Zep's Kashmir. [Aug 2018, p.102]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Meredith and David Metcalf craft slow-rolling CA ghost ballads, beguiling end-of-days stories with the same mournful beauty as The Triffids' Born Sandy Devotional. [Oct 2017, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a seduction in halves. [May 2023, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An overwhelming record that bends and blusters with grand passions, bittersweet beauty and no small hint of desperation. [Apr 2005, p.98]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nasty, brutish, short, and wholly compelling, Yeezus begs only one question: where next? [Sep 2013, p.89]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sprawling Montreal ensemble [is] nback at their most spirited, their Weltschmerz poured into wordless music of soaring transcendence and, on occasion, fierce beauty. [Dec 2017, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The repetitive refrains and orchestral interventions of Lil' Beethoven are developed with the judicious use of rock guitar into something bigger, yet just as beguiling. [Feb 2006, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heart Song dips deeper into drama, with additional electric guitar and heavier drums adding chiaroscuro to her patented slowburn. [Dec 2016, p.89]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ...Bolgatanga is easily AHC's most accessible, vivid approximation of Brian Eno's fabled "vision of a psychedelic Africa". [Aug 2023, p.78]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For the most part Empire is every bit as powerful as its title suggests. [Oct 2006, p.96]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He sounds fresher than in years. [Dec 2006, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simple stuff, sparsely rendered, with a weighty undertow. [Dec 2014, p.93]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a lushness to Dungan's layering throughout that reminds of William Tyler, Stuart Hyatt and labelmate Ezra Feinberg. [Mar 2025, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On Antiphon, Midlake sound like a band unburdened and read to fly. [Dec 2013, p.82]
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