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
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite the turmoil these songs describe, a flash of Elliott Smith-style emotional acuity every few seconds, musically Valentine tells a different story. Building on the confidence of 2018 debut Lush. [Nov 2021, p.87]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An almost austere album, the production deliciously dry, forcing lyrics and beats to share the foreground. [Nov 2002, p.106]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Apocalypse is a multi-storied cosmic rollercoaster that asks the big questions while relocating hip hop on the astral plane. No mean feat. [Aug 2013, p.88]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Driven along by a renewed sense of urgency and purpose, this may be Richard Thompson's most creative album in decades. [Oct 2018, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Otherworldly as it is ineffably uplifting. [Jan 2026, p.82]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An impressive follow-up album. [Sep 2013, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Half Moon Run may still be exploring a road that travels between Django Django's left-field indie pop and the wintry harmonies of Fleet Foxes, but the scenery is damned fine. [Nov 2015, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It eschews the compartmentalised, glossy, compressed production sound du jour for a red-blooded, powerful live feel full of adrenalin and excitement. [Oct 2013, p.90]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Breaks is an album of staggering neo-classic rock ambitions. [Oct 2014, p.86]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mostly loose and warm more than heart-stopping. [Apr 2006, p.104]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s late summer sunshine in music form. [Dec 2024, p.93]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Packs intelligence, colour and melody. [Mar 2020, p.93]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sun-scorched heavy blues rock from Cosmic Californians. [July 2010, p. 94]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mrs. Buffalo's boy's not one of the herd: weird, but kind of wonderful. [May 2010, p. 97]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rejoice stands tall alongside both artists' greatest work. [May 2020, p.95]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's extra-colourful and top quality. [Sep 2022, p.87]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Taken as a whole, it's an arresting step towards the light. [Feb 2013, p.90]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some bands arrive as a work in progress. Others, such as Divorce, are fully formed from Birth. .... They tick boxes aplenty. [Apr 2025, p.86]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To Believe doesn't rush along the cutting edge, but after 12 years absent, it hits this particular spot in time and space: sombre, tense, watchful, looking for calm, but gathering storms. [Apr 2019, p.92]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dracula simmers like The War On Drugs, and Calling Paul The Suffering has Latino touches, while Blue Rose dresses Greenwich Village rock in Fleetwood Mac silk. [May 2018, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The changing seasons--and death--haunt This Old Dog without ever hamstringing its perfectly weighted, sometimes deceptively chipper grooves. [Jun 2017, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    150 minutes of challenging, organic electronica. [Apr 2013, p.95]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This, then, is A-grade rock'n'roll--profound, damaged, brimming with wondrous dreams. [Jun 2009, p.104]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout Ribbons, you feel Adam's guitars as much as hear them, his use of drones, volume swells and Eastern-flavoured trickery taking us deep into the mystic. [Aug 2017, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Model 500 fans, prepare for increased static. [Jul 2019, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    After 2008's The Hungry Saw simmered with a new, diehard energy, Falling Down A Mountain is more like climbing up. [Feb 2010, p. 103]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Altogether, a bold and beautiful record. [Sep 2025, p.78]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Dodos switchback moods and rhythms never settle and that's the prime joy of No Color. [Jun 2011, p.105]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A classic rock record, in all senses. [Nov 2021, p.84]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Charms on the surface yet stays in the memory. [Oct 2002, p.108]
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