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
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    • 80 Critic Score
    His albums are populated by characters, tall tales and true stories sung in that plain-dealing half-spoken voice that can bring to mind Tom Petty. ... Here we have a paean to Johnny Thunders. ... And to John The Baptist's son. ... And three separate songs about presidents. [Sep 2020, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
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    Her most beautiful [music] in decades. [May 2023, p.87]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A companion piece, maybe, but these songs can stand alone. [Apr 2022, p.84]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's in essence a wordless, monochrome Television. [May 2006, p.104]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In all, another most welcome Delivery from the Antipodes. [Feb 2025, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Scialfa's writing wipes away any celeb-gossip patina through the universality of convincing detail. [Oct 2007, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Man Alive is daisy-fresh, and reaching levels of unexpected bliss on the album's three ballads. [Sep 2010, p.99]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's his most moving writing of his career. [Jul 2021, p.83]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mapping the winding path of Chrissie and Jp's relationship as it came unstuck, Fidelity! is brave and tender, tingling and troubling the nerve-endings. [Dec 2010, p.98]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their 14th release enschews improv for structure, its hulking grooves boosted by Melvins guitarist Buzz Osborne and the distinctive noir wail of new label boss Mike Patton. [Apr 2009, p.107]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mulcahy is a heavy-duty Randy Newman for our times. [Jul 2019, p.95]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A low-key, highly engaging covers album. [Nov 2010, p.99]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At Weddings quickly coalesces into an utterly compelling presence. [Sep 2018, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The concept is a bit arch and it's easy to get overly trainspotterish with this kind of venture.... apart frim some obviously recognisable moments it sounded like a quality Yo La Tengo album. [Sep 2015, p.88]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stewart's mental health struggles delayed work, but the finished product distils personal pain into a powerful mix of Scott 3 and the Care Bears. [May 2024, p.84]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a labyrinthine 64-minute journey, bound together by a group identity that gains clarity with every listen. [Jun 2012, p.80]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Villagers lives in its own hermetic and compelling space; it's not too late to pay a visit. [Jul 2023, p.84]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Regardless of how they're captured, these songs still have the capacity to enthrall. [Jan 2017, p.113]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is pain here. The results, though, are delicious. [Feb 2018, p.97]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spinning Coin have spun new dreams from old. [Mar 2020, p.94]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The horny Dry Spell is typically smart storytelling, cheekily contemporary and as wittily candid as her hero John Prine, while Back On The Wagon is a credulous assertion of faith in an erring lover from an unreliable narrator. [Jul 2026, p.87]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Less minimal folk this time, the title track and Holograms are particularly fulsome. [Mar 2019, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    'Leather Prowler' is as dank and industrial as you'd hope--but the emphasis is now on songwriting. [Sep 2007, p.112]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a brave and brilliant refocusing of her energies, virtually a rebirth. [Oct 2007, p.91]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Even the less bristling episodes feel luminous and ecstatic, but mostly the magnificent Historian thrives on tension. [Apr 2018, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As expected, it's perfectly executed. [Apr 2019, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What might sound like a depressing work of angsty indulgence is in fact an uplifting record of angular alt-folk. [June 2008, p.108]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The one constant is their ability to chill the nape hairs, which ultimately is all that matters. [Apr 2008]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    10 tracks of grainy electronic drift, tension and poignancy. [Aug 2021, p.81]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shauf paints an endearing sketch of his house party's many moods. [Jun 2016, p.97]
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