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
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heartmind is unlikely to break him out of the smoked-glass shell of cultdom. ... Yet this album does display notable lushness. ... It proves McCombs doesn't need any dream machine to induce new visions: 10 albums in, he's more than capable of looking at the world differently all by himself. [Sep 2022, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Laurenz's] supple grooves energise their quixotic synth patterns and intricate guitar-scree, ensuring this wordless yet dramatic debut triangulates the oft-dweebish worlds of electronica, no wave and retro sci-fi with a funky red-blooded brio. [Sep 2008, p.106]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Riotous takedown of eco-hypocrisy and corporate greenwashing to the accompaniment of rhythms so wildly exuberant they could rearrange loins. [Aug 2021, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The lack of drums adds extra intimacy to four gently rising and falling Lloyd originals. ... Understatement is Ocean's greatest strength. [Nov 2022, p.84]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may make for a rollercoaster musical ride, but it's utterly thrilling. [Mar 2024, p.88]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is fresh, contemporary American music and Dion's throat is still golden despite the mileage. [Aug 2020, p.91
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blom hits all the alt-rock pleasure centres. [Jul 2019, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is jazz in its loosest, least bridled sense, blurred to shimmering, impressionistic effect. [Aug 2020, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Waterhouse's 2012 debut, Time's All Gone, combined strong songwriting with an impressive, hard-voiced approach, and this follow-up does the same again. [May 2014, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The pace occasionally saunters, but this is an ultimately positive exercise in the group's titular "reflection and response." [Aug 2018, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hard Rain's warm, overriding lo-fi aesthetic is a neat contrast to the no-nonsense virtuosity of his group outings. [Jul 2019, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here and elsewhere, Vampire Weekend's growing self-assurance serves the needs of the song without playing to their perceived strengths. [Jun 2013, p.84]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baffling excursions into exotica also make Fantasy Island different enough to reignite their "wow" factor. [Nov 2021, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bold, colorful creations. Surf is most definitely up. [Jan 2012, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neville is in wonderful vocal forms ranging through lovely balladry, gospel, doo wop and funk. [Sep 2016, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The devil's in the details, be it the drum machine patterns that propel Church or the lush pedal-augmented textures of Medieval, while the instrumentals that open and close the album aren't simple throwaways but highlights. [Sep 2015, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hval's most rounded missive to date unsettles. [Oct 2016, p.98]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whitmore's sparse new songs brilliantly realised. [Oct 2011, p.105]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It plays to all their debut's moody, elegant, widescreen strengths while illustrating the changes since. [Sep 2012, p.86]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forsyth's emotional power is entirely here and now. [Feb 2020, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still crossing the many rivers of doubt, hope and despair that have faced him since his American Music Club days, Mark Eitzel's tenth solo album can nonetheless throw out surprises. [Feb 2017, p.96]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Without making concessions, she's delivered her most accessible album yet, perhaps even her best. [Jun 2022, p.84]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No one could have predicted Endless Wire would be quite this good. [Nov 2006, p.98]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs that any liberal-minded Cat Stevens fan will adore. [Dec 2006, p.120]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nu-riot grrrls who may well be doing it better than anyone since Bikini Kill. [Feb 2025, p.91]
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If Guthrie sometimes plods wearily, betweenwhiles you get a hot stew of the laconic anger and irony that inspired the Seeger-Dylan-Springsteen-Bragg-and-beyond heritage. [Dec 2013, p.101]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It just sounds so good. Warm and natural. And Earle's voice has rarely sounded better. [Aug 2022, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She delivers twisted, nostalgic jazz, flanked by her Spanish husband's eerie Portuguese guitar.... Lovely. [Mar 2016, p.98]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of humming, depthless power. [Nov 2011, p.102]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tight Knit is a beautiful, lazy album of befogged West Coast dreams. [Apr 2009, p.107]
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