Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,512 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:
10512 music reviews
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mulcahy follows the songs through rock, jazz and indie pop, from opening lullaby Stuck On Something Else to the Robert Wyatt-esque Geraldine, a rare and wise treat from an underrated songwriter. [Jun 2017, p.89]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's soulful, spiritually questing--pretty much irresistible, too. [Jun 2017, p.88]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A boundlessly inventive and occasionally quite bonkers record that draws heavily on the input of its myriad guests. [Jun 2017, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Evilly powerful, filmic and flowing. [Jun 2017, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's A Myth is like a musical Mondrian painting: all bold lines and defined patterns effortlessly delivered, but oblique and enigmatic too. [Jun 2017, p.87]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are good songs here, but it sometimes sounds like Sheryl is trying too hard to turn back the clock. [Jun 2017, p.87]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A solid 11-song set. [May 2017, p.92]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A hugely enjoyable whole. After a fortnight's heavy rotation, it has yet to reveal its fatal flaw. [May 2017, p.89]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A return to fundamentals closest in kin to Lamar’s 2012 debut, proving that, questionable sleeve design aside, he’s in imperious form.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    8AM
    A record to welcome the morning light as it seeps through chinks in the curtain. [May 2017, p.91]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Both the rabbit hole ride of Comanche Moon and reverb-laden panic attack Death March--two highlights--could have been released at any point in the last half century. [May 2017, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not as humorous as 2Bears nor as wistful as Hot Chip, here Goddard further explores the potency of the danncefloor combined with intelligent, leftfield pop. [May 2017, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exactly the sort of angry rebel rock you want from a band with their backs it the walls and foes on all sides. [Apr 2017, p.96]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's peace and a wild purity to it. [May 2017, p.92]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The coherent Volume 1 sounds like a Midlake-as-such album: a more direct follow-up to 2013's Antiphon. [May 2017, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Americana shows a man still writing to find out his place in the world. He's seen it all, he's seen through it all, but there's still open road ahead. There's no better adventure than that. [May 2017, p.86]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's intensely personal. [May 2017, p.88]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their sixth album doesn't veer too wildly from it [their MO]--lashing Krautrock grooves to a broad cross-section of dance music tropes, and embellished with Best's labuorous, conversational vocal style. [May 2017, p.91]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shimmering, lounge-pop gives a velvet backdrop to fluent, Dylan-ish vernacular sung with flawless mitteleuropa cool. [May 2017, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Too much of this double album plods. [May 2017, p.98]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Occasionally things get laboured or dull; still, a powerful new direction. [Apr 2017, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a bit of power ballad journeying but taut pop hooks aplenty too. [May 2017, p.98]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Threat levels peak on Sewer Blues' ominous, John Carpenter reverberation. [May 2017, p.98]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sound they conjure is often heavenly. [May 2017, p.95]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When the songs are this well-crafted, we'll be back again. [May 2017, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's clever, funny, confrontational and touching. [May 2017, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eventually Janka Nabay's updating of Sierra Leone's bubu beats gets under the skin. [May 2017, p.95]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The results present a dense mesh of disparate tempos, hypnotic rhythms and passages of glittering beauty. [Apr 2017, p.97]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The limits of comfort zones are not breached. [May 2017, p.89]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If previous Body Count efforts wobbled close to self-parody, Bloodlust nail-guns the impending doom of post-truth Trump America with incision. [May 2017, p.92]
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