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
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Witty, tender pieces to charm even those for who wrestling means Shirley Crabtree. [May 2015, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Its sprawling, ambient techno is a sensory overload of submerged beats, like windscreen wipers during drizzle, over which drift icy phrases and fragments. [Jul 2018, p.95]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    F&M hit peak funkiness on this fat-free blend of Krautrock pulses and pop melodies. [Nov 2022, p.94]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The years don’t fall away – you feel every one – but this recording shows just what a beautiful thing that can be.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Orc
    Dwyer's crew are oft-cited as the world's most exciting live rock band; they're also making some of its most exciting rock records. [Sep 2017, p.93]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Complete Budokan 1978 is a richer picture of this restless nerve at work. [Jan 2024, p.101]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a very traditional U2 album, the sort of album people want U2 to make. [Dec 2004, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dap-Kings lent their powerful Muscle Shoals-esque funk licks to Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and even Robbie Williams. But they work best together in their Brooklyn studio, as 100 days proves. [Nov 2007, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of gauzily reflective--but engrossingly atmospheric--pieces. [Nov 2005, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimately, though, the resolutely rubbish recordings--distorted, trebly drum breaks, scratchy guitars, monotonous voices--and near-total absence of melody, might test your stamina for mindless entertainment. [May 2003, p.104]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This has wit in spades, an irrepressible love of language and genuine originality. [Oct 2004, p.110]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A noble addition to the Giant Sand canon. [Sep 2004, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At times, it's almost too tasteful a refinement of her work.... Yet there are some fabulous moments from both sides of Harvey's brain. [Jun 2004, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of humming, depthless power. [Nov 2011, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Thornton Wilder's Our Town divested of optimism, yet retaining that play's twilight feel. [Aug 2012, p.86]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is music for interiors, sequestered days in tune with the beauty of our immediate surroundings. [Dec 2020, p.85]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When they crank out breathless melodic euphoria like Darkened Rings, originality seems a pointless objective anyway. [Feb 2017, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs with fuller backing reveal much melodic moxie. [May 2016, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Almost three decades into their journey, age has only emboldened them. [Jul 2009, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This first widely available release is a superb distillation of the duo's talents. [Dec 2008, p.112]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the resulting acoustic simplicity of his songwriting that makes this collection such a treat. [Jul 2012, p.101]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While the production still feels ill-judged, there are some crackling tracks. [Jun 2016, p.92]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That he is reunited with producer Mitchell Froom only partly accounts for the likeness this album shares with his '90s work. [Jun 2006, p.111]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like other recent albums, this is not consistent enough to be classic Wilson but her voice still regularly seduces. [July 2008, p.109]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He has created a wooded lattice of crackling guitar and dusky electronica. [Jun 2012, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These gradual pleasures fly in the face of today's pop/rock hardsell, for sure, but inexorably you are drawn into Kurt's world. [Mar 2002, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If these last two [fire and freshness] are tough to keep up 15 years on, it doesn't show. [Aug 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is impressive, soul-bearing torch-pop, yet despite some bravura vocal performances, Almond's typically declamatory delivery at times, feels rather awkwardly appended to the airlessly slick soundscapes. [Apr 2015, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sinewy. ... Lines brings a clear echo of mid-period Pink Floyd to the table. [Mar 2022, p83]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They're also practitioners of the ancient art form of popcraft, constructing tight, clever confections then working with longtime co-producer Pat Dillett to ensure the hooks are delivered cleanly and efficiently. They remain funny, too. [Jun 2026, p.88]
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