Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,509 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: 6,863 out of 10509
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10509
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Negative: 34 out of 10509
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He's written better collections of songs, but for fun, warmth, vigour and power, it' sup there with his best. [Mar 2013, p.86]- Mojo
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The best moments involve stranger juddering textures, as on Flowers or Wishing Well. Beauty is always better with an edge. [Aug 2020, p.87]- Mojo
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Dark, edgy, yet full of light and hope, Brother Sinner... is dazzling, moving too, and bordering on perfection. [Dec 2012, p.89]- Mojo
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The Czars only had minuscule--if fanatical--support, but Grant's current profile should see retrospective justice done. [Jan 2015, p.112]- Mojo
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The on-stage versions bring genuine human warmth--healing even--to Vulnicura's raw emotional truths. [Sep 2016, p.99]- Mojo
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There's an appealing stealth and positivity to Ron's writing here. [Jun 2017, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Apr 25, 2017 -
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This compelling song collection offers an abstract journey through the themes, influences and emotions of a most eventful year. [Apr 2017, p.94]- Mojo
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[Bonnie Bloomgarden's] brings formidable, shamanic energy to California Mountain Shake, Magic Powers and Sunday, her untamed vocals on the latter conjuring a young Maria Mckee. [Apr 2023, p.88]- Mojo
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These dozen songs are a prime distillation of their essential pantheism. [Aug 2023, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Jun 21, 2023 -
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It's exquisitely crafted and the backing vocals on North Country Ride are beyond beautiful, but a little more colour in their palette wouldn't go amiss. [Aug 2023, p.78]- Mojo
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This is the band taking stock, creating a record that has a bleak, sonically rich beauty. [Jul 2025, p.88]- Mojo
Posted May 27, 2025 -
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The trio return with 12 mesmeric tracks that are a love letter to their native south Manchester and its iconic brutalist architecture. [Aug 2025, p.85]- Mojo
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In The Court Of... sounds both warmly familiar yet dazzlingly fresh.- Mojo
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Because Of The Times burns with all the invention and ambition that seemed to have been sucked out of its predecessor. [May 2007, p.108]- Mojo
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Relentless vocal shards create the sensation of being stabbed in the head with a whalebone comb, but when voices and concept coalesce... you begin to see the point. [Dec. 2011 p. 98]- Mojo
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All in all, with its pervading doubts and joyful release, Glowing In The Dark is very much for these times. [Mar 2021, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Feb 9, 2021 -
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It really does seem that a decade-long period of interbal artistic crisis has been resolved, beautifully, even triumphantly. [Apr 2008, p.98]- Mojo
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No wheels were reinvented in the making of this record, but it travels straight to the heart nevertheless. [Aug 2020, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 7, 2020 -
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A set of sad, beautiful, guileless, country-folk songs [Jan 2013, p.102]- Mojo
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It wouldn't be a Ray Wylie album without an anthem and the title track is a good one. [Nov 2017, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Sep 27, 2017 -
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The skittish energy of a Lene Lovich is still there but now that quirkiness is crossed with slices of JAMC-fuzz and dream-pop trails. [Apr 2014, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Mar 21, 2014 -
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His overall grasp of what he is doing has never been surer. [Dec 2014, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Nov 19, 2014 -
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Intriguing melodies, immersive arrangements and a haunting choral climax. [Nov 2016, p.96]- Mojo
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The resulting sings--beautifully built around guitar, piano, drums and strings--are as their psycho-geography would suggest, intimate autobiographies, about ruined relationships. [May 2013, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Apr 9, 2013