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
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's when they change gear, on the likes of Old Stuff, New Glass, which goes into a funk workout reminiscent of ESG, or on the Orange Juice-flavoured likes of 48 Percent or Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)--whose reverb and chiming guitars leans towards post-punk idea of reggae--that The Orielles excel. [Mar 2018, p.97]
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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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Occasionally meanders into lift muzak for people who only ever travel in really cool lifts. [Mar 2003, p.103]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What with that album title, a wistful opening waltz, entitled Oh, The Divorces! and a beautifully resigned lament called Singles Bar ("Can you tell how long I've been here? Can you smell the fear?", the theme of mid-life crises hangs heavy over these 10 simply arranged vignettes. [June 2010, p. 92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plumb is a delicious tasting menu of rock history. [Mar 2012, p.103]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TOY
    It'll surely rank as British alt-rock's finest debut of 2012--genuinely fit for a place in Dougall Sr's pantheon. [Oct 2012, p.88]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Afrucaine 808 have perfected a highly effective remedy to standing still. [Feb 2016, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Scots post-rockers who will outlast them all. [March 2011, p. 100]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is one darkly alluring trip. [Mar 2006, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simple stuff, sparsely rendered, with a weighty undertow. [Dec 2014, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a generous and potent fix of Pollard eccentricity. [Apr 2018, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of the 11 songs have a rich band sound with strings and strong piano, and others a spare contemplative tone. [Nov 2012, p.88]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Les Revenants is more about establishing a complex, unsettling atmosphere than slashing Bernard Herrmann-esque quiet/loud dynamics. [Apr 2013, p.90]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mudhoney celebrate 20 years of mucus-crusted punk hootenannies with a raw restatement of basic priciples. [June 2008, p.113]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The latest set of back-porch ballads, junkshop country hymns and chiming indie rock--all born of his beloved Arizona desert. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That Aurthur Jeffes--son of late Penguin Cafe orchestra founder Simon Jeffes--is a chip off the old block is becoming increasingly clear. [Mar 2014, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Suffice to say, they've kept their edge. [Dec 2015, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The DIY disco maverick channels vintage R&B and thrilling dancefloor pop of an '80s Madonna/Janet/TLC stripe, in a voice that's crystal cool in up and downtempo settings. [Feb 2017, p.99]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Future Islands still sound thrillingly marginal, people standing on an emotional faultline, waiting to be swallowed up. [May 2017, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MC Dalek's indignant imagery can be tricky to unpick, yet his barbed lines are hard to dislodge on Weapons And Battlecries. [Oct 2017, p.96]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A lysergic brew of dust-blown ballads, thumping punk rock and shimmery psychedelia. The jarring stylistic clash is often part of the charm. [Dec 2019, p.88]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For the most part Swift doesn't stray far from The Great Dylan Songbook. [Oct 2020, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pearlies has more the feel of a wistful autumnal folk record than any kind of'90s throwback. [Dec 2023, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The songs often begin like standards then vanish beneath noise creeping in from the sides. .... Before the music returns to the foreground, triumphant. [Aug 2025, p.83]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2t2
    A challenging yet rewarding listen. [Aug 2025, p.85]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their trademark bubblegum choruses are all reassuringly present, with a handful of songs here good enough to tough it out with anything on their early revered studio albums. [Dec 2025, p.83]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's disappointing that only 12 tracks have been handpicked for this release. [Jan 2007, p.124]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They remain ridiculous, but thunderingly good fun. [Dec 2019, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All intriguing and unique, but as the concluding third settles into shapeless moodiness, Hesitation Marks could've done with some pruning. [Oct 2013, p.87]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    COYB trade in wintery, foreboding hymnals that conjure Sigur Ros, Radiohead and an existentially challenged Aled Jones staring out across the abyss. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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