Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,512 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,865 out of 10512
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Mixed: 3,613 out of 10512
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Negative: 34 out of 10512
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Posted May 20, 2013 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Oct 21, 2021 -
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[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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
Posted May 30, 2024 -
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Astronaut..., then, could be King Creosote's finest hour yet. [Oct 2016, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Sep 6, 2016 -
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This sensitive tribute lingers. [Jun 2012, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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The line-up gel beautifully on these three long instrumentals. [Oct 2018, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Sep 20, 2018 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Nov 7, 2019 -
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Posted Sep 19, 2012 -
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Both spectacularly riotous and deliciously bittersweet. [Nov 2005, p.112]- Mojo
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By the end, As If makes you want to run away, arm in arm with the night. [Nov 2015, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 13, 2015 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Sep 19, 2013 -
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Posted Nov 28, 2016 -
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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]- Mojo
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Posted Mar 30, 2026 -
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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]- Mojo
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Posted Dec 12, 2018 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jan 11, 2016 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted May 31, 2022 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jan 30, 2019 -
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It's all consummately executed, just lacking a burning lyrical purpose. [Mar 2025, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jan 27, 2025 -
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For all its flaws, the outcome remains spectacular. [Oct 2014, p.103]- Mojo
Posted Dec 12, 2014 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Mar 2, 2017 -
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Ire Works is a thrillingly hostile racket containing 13 wild bursts. [Dec 2007, p.110]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
- Posted Feb 26, 2025
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A second album every bit as upbeat, funny and furious as their eponymous 2006 debut. [Apr 2008, p.105]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
Posted Oct 27, 2023 -
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Forever Howlong is a remarkably unified - and gloriously intriguing - piece of work. [May 2025, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Apr 1, 2025 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Apr 21, 2015