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
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sarcastic, ironic--and occasionally infuriating. [Jun 2013, p.95]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    -io doesn't try to ingratiate or console. Instead, Fohr ambitiously attempts to strip back protective coatings and cocoons, to show what happens when distractions peel away and the inevitable pushes through. [Nov 2021, p.90]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Aerosmith's] affection for and facility with the material in hand [is] as plain as the nose on Gerard Depardieu's face. [May 2004, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lyrically, it's Merrick's diary of their delirious reaction to that vast continent, such as the sublime desolation of Somewhere near El Paso, bathed in "a half-lit Denny's sign", or Lily Pad, where Merrick, sounding almost horizontal. [Jul 2024, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Astronaut..., then, could be King Creosote's finest hour yet. [Oct 2016, p.93]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This sensitive tribute lingers. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The line-up gel beautifully on these three long instrumentals. [Oct 2018, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beat-less but involving standouts like Memphis Helena, with its plangent lead line intimately tracked by Nelson's hushed hazy intoning, and elegiac, rippling acoustic guitar-propelled Muriel Spark are as inexorable and immersive as a high summer sunset. [Dec 2019, p.92]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theirs is really a taste worth acquiring. [Sep 2005, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing here is less than intriguing. [Oct 2012, p.86]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Both spectacularly riotous and deliciously bittersweet. [Nov 2005, p.112]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the end, As If makes you want to run away, arm in arm with the night. [Nov 2015, p.93]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Many of the songs segue into one another, a percussive keyboard outro blending into a slow keyboard intro, with Moses sounding like the soundtrack to sunrise--gorgeous. [Oct 2013, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Live albums often disappoint but this one doesn't. [Jan 2017, p.101]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a record of fierce seriousness, a demand for engagement as inescapable and immediate as somebody shaking you by the shoulders. [Aug 2023, p.82]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They're bowing out on a high. [May 2026, p.93]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The whole thing is furious, funny and, not least in the toy-town conscious reggae of Health Is Wealth, deeply loveable. [Jun 2022, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is another madcap sonic escapade. [Dec 2018, p.87]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    New View furthers Friedberger's quest to declutter, finding great pop and occasional profundity in getting to the point and letting her tunes ring clear. [Feb 2016, p.92]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Big Time doesn't feel like a definitive transformation - it's still tender and unfurled in places - but it does have a new clarity, a sense of masks peeling away, veils dropped. [Jul 2022, p.84]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What some might reckon to be Drift Code's one significant weakness--that Webb is not a conventionally beauteous singer--is once more a strength. [Mar 2019, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's all consummately executed, just lacking a burning lyrical purpose. [Mar 2025, p.86]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For all its flaws, the outcome remains spectacular. [Oct 2014, p.103]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The only musical shift is Bete Morcelee, which isn't grunge but zippy punk; the rest reprise Marry's trademark conjoining of equally joyous Afro-pop and Anglo-phonic guitar-pop. [Apr 2017, p.95]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ire Works is a thrillingly hostile racket containing 13 wild bursts. [Dec 2007, p.110]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Due to the circumstances, guitarist Jez Williams takes the lead on more tracks than is customary, including gorgeous, Smiths-referencing highlight Last Year’s Man. But despite a difficult incubation, Doves soar here.[ Mar 2025, p.90]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A second album every bit as upbeat, funny and furious as their eponymous 2006 debut. [Apr 2008, p.105]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The production ideas and songs, however smart, won't change the world; they will, however, prompt large swathes to sing along. [Dec 2024, p.84]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forever Howlong is a remarkably unified - and gloriously intriguing - piece of work. [May 2025, p.84]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    White Men Are Black Men Too places Young Fathers firmly alongside Suede, Dizzee Rascal and Arctic Monkeys in the pantheon of those whose post-Mercury follow-ups confirm they know exactly where they're going and aren't going to let winning a modest prize distract them. [May 2015, p.88]
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