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
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Given its length, trying to tackle To Be Kind n one sitting might feel like the musical equivalent of scaling Everest, but with so many dizzying peaks along the way the effort is well rewarded. [Jun 2014, p.90]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The emotion flows as true as the music.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An astute writer whose lyrics--frank, observational, brutally self-aware--make her songs feel deceptively simple. [Oct 2016, p.100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The ’70s resonate within the 10 exquisitely crafted tracks.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An exquisite collection of R&B message songs that have subtly been reframed with a jazz twist to reflect dystopian developments in contemporary American life. [May 2023, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Childish producing, they pick up where they left off. [Jan 2026, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of supreme control, Solaris proves that not all Zeitgeist tickling beats are necessarily bound for the coffee table.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's so much controlled carnage to this double LP that it just flashes by. [Feb 2026, p.90]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A more elemental approach to dance music. [Oct 2014, p.93]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For the most part Migratory is music for reflection and meditation, held together by Fujita’s unique lightness of touch. [Oct 2024, p.84]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dissonant yet heavenly, Gas Lit is an album that seethes, soothes, liberates and bewitches in equal measures. [Mar 2021, p.83]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blessed with impeccable musical bone structure, nearly everything suits them. [Nov 2012, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Less direct than its 2012 predecessor The Shadow Of Heaven, Suicide Songs collects richly arranged reflections which climax with A Cocaine Christmas And An Alcoholic's New Year. [Feb 2016, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What's certainly clear is that this spin-the-bottle project has legs, its relaxed meeting of minds a mellifluous triple-threat. [May 2025, p.84]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Middle Cyclone never lets go enough to take flight; nor does it too quickly wear out its welcome. [Apr 2009, p.110]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When the quality is this high, Perkins can sing the pain away for as long as he needs. [May 2009, p.101]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Focusing in the songwriting, at its best the album recalls Gene Clark (Outsmarted), folksy Led Zeppelin (All God Did and Make You Happy) and even the very best of his father (the title track). [Aug 2025, p.77]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As this crackles with youthful brio and subtlety, we can start speculating what this band may go on to achieve. [Aug 2009, p.98]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For all the heartache, Blu Wav is surprisingly uplifting, transcendent, even.[Feb 2024, p.85]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tripp is a complicated, slow-burning wonder that matches Cerulean Salt for fuzzy, bed-headed zingers but adds several layers of regret and self doubt and is all the more rewarding for that. [May 2015, p.95]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    The album rocks, its symphonic depth and stratosphere-surfing melodies more affecting with each subsequent listen. [Jan 2003, p.98]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heavy though it is, the songwriting remains remarkably light and agile. [Mar 2024, p.88]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The pop and alt-country arrangements shine throughout, with all concerned inspired and on point. [Dec 2022, p.85]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Among many highlights, the best and brightest is the Guided By Voices-do-Status Quo elation of Box Batteries, an elegy for youth designed to live forever. [Jun 2015, p.88]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A combination of fierce electro-clash, stabbing rock riffs, and the rudest raps on the planet. [Oct 2003, p.118]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An adult pleasure. [Jun 2014, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Regular producer Dan Austin teases atmosphere, buries mysterious sampled speech and navigates the piano-led title track bank into Hacienda territory. What kept them? [Oct 2020, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This time [COF] have tempered their voluminous superfuzz with scenic bliss. [Oct 2004, p.101]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The unreleased material sustains earlier standards. [Jun 2012, p.100]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Urban Turban is another irresistible Cornershop mash-up. [Aug 2012, p.86]
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