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
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Even if it's not quite the Pretenders, it's good to have Chrissy Hynde back. [Nov 2016, p.86]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Introspective, often forlorn and frequently mysterious, it's not an easy listen, but the delicate potency of Clarke's exceptional voice is a formidable saving grace. [Nov 2016, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It bursts with love--for family, for the power of musicianship, but most of all, like Lidell's hero Stevie Wonder, for the art of storytelling. [Nov 2016, p.88]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is one of his most intense albums. It feels personal too. [Nov 2016, p.90]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The bonus material features a first release for the fabled "Mustique Demos": just Noel, a drum machine and Owen Morris's portastudio in the Caribbean, suggesting a humbler alternative might have been possible, had reality not intruded. [Nov 2016, p.102]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Imaginative, derivative and warped. [Nov 2016, p.93]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    WMPPRR is one of the most powerful psychedelic releases to have come out this year. [Nov 2016, p.86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A creepy yet danceable debut. [Nov 2016, p.96]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rarely can the lute have sounded quite as threatening as it does here. [Nov 2016, p.93]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rooted in dubby pop and embellished with punchy horns, it captures the Birmingham group's maiden rebel sound. [Oct 2016, p.98]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An album that stalks the perpetual gloaming so wholeheartedly, you do rather wish for a ray of sunlight here and there. [Oct 2016, p.98]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of the purest, restorative, most unburdened music imaginable. [Oct 2016, p.98]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gibb's voice might be audibly timeworn in parts and the production is a bit vanilla, but there's no denying the poignancy here. [Nov 2016, p.86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Last Hero captures them approaching the peak of their powers. [Nov 2016, p.94]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Highlights: I Know's breathless vocals and pummeled drums; Invisible Man's irradiated energy, railing against Alzheimer's. [Nov 2016, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is a most ambitious, rewarding and soulful debut. [Nov 2016, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Day Breaks] is arguably her masterpiece to date. [Nov 2016, p.90]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It features the Bright Eyes/Desaparecidos frontman alone with piano, harmonica and guitar, putting down songs never quite intended as an album. This sparseness means that the focus on Oberst is tight--maybe too tight. [Nov 2016, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A worthy addition to the genre. [Nov 2016, p.92]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her characters will wander through your imagination for days after the record's stopped spinning. [Nov 2016, p.86]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sirens proffers another string to his bow, its nine skittering essays overlaying richly textured, genre-melding electronic sound worlds with liminal song "structures." [Nov 2016, p.81]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's one of the most thrilling rocksteady albums to have been made since the genre emerged in the late '60s. [Nov 2016, p.89]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [For Bteer, Or Worse] maintains the same innate love of his subject and feeling of bonhomie. [Nov 2016, p.94]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Peaks early with the opening title track. [Nov 2016, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This feels like Hiss Golden Messenger's overdue breakthrough album. [Nov 2016, p.89]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gong carry on with positive absurdist elevation via psychedelic jazz rock. [Oct 2016, p.100]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For every shallow, Banks stirs up a hidden depth. [Nov 2016, p.90]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It benefits from producer Jim Sclavunos's emphasis on a place-you-in-the-room live approach, bringing the dark to labelmates Temples' light, as Heavenly's neo-psych vanguard marches onwards. [Nov 2016, p.94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reflective but brimming with aching melody. [Nov 2016, p.88]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cohen joined by bass, pedal steel, brushed drums, recorder, flute and violin. This, if anything, has made her songs stranger still, breathing life into the ghostly riddles of cold watchmen and voices from the forest and releasing them out into the corporal world. [Nov 2016, p.91]
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