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
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some might find the work's almost wilful-seeming opacity and slight whiff of academia off-putting. Judged on purely musical terms, however, it's a ting of great beauty. [Apr 2017, p.90]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Temples aren't stuck in the past, they've glimpsed the future. [Apr 2017, p.94]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Valerie June's siren-like vocal delivery [is] both beautiful and tempting. [Apr 2017, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Great to have back that little razor edge that Lytle loses when he steps away from his bandmates, but this might be the last time he gets away with it without a major rethink. [Apr 2017, p.96]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reid offers up dreamlike meditations on pained experience possessed of a quiet rhythm and disarming lyrical beauty. [Apr 2017, p.91]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its depth makes this their most satisfyingly sensual work to date. [Apr 2017, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Heartworms James Mercer has produced another fine crop of pop. [Apr 2017, p.88]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An adroit demonstration of Power's aim to reflect today's festering political landscape. [Apr 2017, p.97]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This third outing developed a gnarly carpe diem edge. [Mar 2017, p.94]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Parlay music that while irrefutably folk, gleefully shoves aside traditionalist tropes in favour of a buoyant, full-bodied combo sound, that, passingly, recalls prime Fairport Convention while proffering a beguilingly mellifluous identity of its own. [Apr 2017, p.98]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rich, sonic politesse on offer here. [Apr 2017, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These mostly instrumental voyages speak loudly of no known universe. [Mar 2017, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A brilliant piece of art. [Mar 2017, p.91]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Windy City is a rather safe album. [Apr 2017, p.90]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The real star is Kingston MC Racquel Jones. [Apr 2017, p.99]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The wig-out-in-wonderland title track has a poppy, Donovan approach before its unsettling phased climax. [Apr 2017, p.99]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's not an easy album to love. [Apr 2017, p.98]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The unlikely MC tag team's incontestable third rages hard over bass-driven beats positively thrumming with vitality. [Apr 2017, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The considered Heba is not immediate, but it worms its way in. [Apr 2017, p.95]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sometimes it's more about a blues feeling, encompassing high-lonesome, electric country-blues rock, two-chord garage rock and at its most beautiful on the opening track Promise The World. [Apr 2017, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Jackie] is another near-masterpiece. [Apr 2017, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A vital album for an anxious era. [Apr 2017, p.90]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impermanence resonates like a lullaby, or a prayer. [Mar 2017, p.90]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trimming, paring and refocusing has made Frontier Ruckus a far more enticing package, and if Milia isn't quite in the league of similar writers such at The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, he's catching up fast. [Mar 2017, p.93]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wintery designs warmed by the likes of Bitchin' Bajas layering instruments, voices and electronics. [Feb 2017, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A delightful demonstration that sticking to your guns can be well worth it. [Mar 2017, p.95]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Without sounding like a faintheart, it comes as a relief that this album features a crop of high quality songs and instrumentals playing with dazzling finger-picking. [Mar 2017, p.90]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's hard to fathom what such a talented songwriter needs to indulge her inner karaoke quite so far. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A thing of dark, possessed beauty. [Mar 2017, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The most satisfying Melvins-related release since Nude With Boots in 2008, Crystal Fairy also makes for a fine entry-point into Teri Gender Bender's dark, gnarly and theatrical oeuvre. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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