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
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The superior ones are palate cleansers or re-fertilisations of barren songwriting soil. But the best are things in and of themselves – artworks the performer has shaped just as surely and idiosyncratically as the writers. Find El Dorado is one of those. [Sep 2025, p.76]
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Civilian [is] coming on like an odd, but most welcome hybrid. [Jun 2011, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As much as his guests shine amid his contemplative synth odysseys, it's the solo Njoku, stripped and vulnerable on Weapon that cut closest to the bone. [Aug 2025, p.84]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The power and import of the record is undeniable. [Oct 2001, p.112]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    i,i never sounds less than excellent, with wide-open acoustic/electric audio structures allowing pizzicato strings to waft through and rising clouds of horns to blow in unexpectedly. It really is bleeding edge stuff. [Oct 2019, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Right To Love is a heartbreaker from the beautifully phrased, opening reading of Hoagy Carmichael's Skylark through to a final I Get Along Without You Very Well. [Sep 2017, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Material arcane yet relevant, as well as freshly minted. [Oct 2018, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neil Hagerty in the producer's chair is a good fit for an album that deliberately blurs the pre- and post-Nirvana boundaries. [Aug 2013, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thick Rich And Delicious is moreish powerpop; a dish best served loud. [Dec 2025, p.87]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Snaith's upward trajectory shows little evidence of slowing. [Nov 2012, p.87]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The softer tracks find the group negotiating their path to maturity with confidence.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The youthful buoyancy of Dogrel has ebbed away, there's a chill deep into the bones of these big, bold songs. ... Fontaines D.C. sound full of new life. [May 2022, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Familiar bittersweet flavours are sensitively tweaked - Looking For You's orchestral surges; Live Learn And Forget's flickering piano - Nada Surf's cathartic heartbursts remain in perfect harmony. [Mar 2020, p.96]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is hard rock as anthropology, administered like only this band can. [Dec 2014, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Unthank sisters admirably translate the atmospheric melancholia of the themes, though it's Adrian McNally's piano arrangements that really carry the day. [Apr 2019, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hands Of Glory is a flamboyant country cousin [to 2012's Break it Yourself]. [Feb 2013, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gloriously measured and understated take on blues standards. [Mar 2025, p.84]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another Eels album--the 12th!--to treasure. [May 2018, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The material is cleverly sourced. [Mar 2015, p.97]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though he can give good ballad he mostly sticks to what suits his gritty vocal and his attitude best: speed-grass. [Dec 2008, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An exciting, evocative album. [Dec 2010, p.94]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All combine to make this the year's first old school soul triumph. [Jun 2020, p.87]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their first album in eight years finds their bond as strong as ever, Burton scoring Mercer's pocket heartaches for widescreen. [Nov 2022, p.90]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Producer Daniel Boyle] strikes a crisp specious groove somewhere between dubstep and '90s digi-dub, for Perry to voice croakily alongside co-vocalists. [Mar 2024, p.82]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    London singer-songwriter attempts to annex the middle ground between Benga and Anthony Hegarty. [March 2011, p. 96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Fateful Symmetry finds this political/music-making radical at his most approachable and reflective, often structuring intimate 'proper' songs around piano chords and unabashedly catchy hooks. [Aug 2025, p.79]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vanished Gardens is ultimately an uplifting and deeply satisfying record, due mostly to Lloyd's ethereal saxophone, which complements Williams beautifully. [Aug 2018, p.95]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall, it's the sound of a band rejuvenated. [May 2024, p.84]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A reminder that Green Day's songwriting is far more nuanced than they're often given credit for. [Feb 2022, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A stripped-back stroll through the summer of the '80s. [Jun 2004, p.106]
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