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
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Bonnie Bloomgarden's] brings formidable, shamanic energy to California Mountain Shake, Magic Powers and Sunday, her untamed vocals on the latter conjuring a young Maria Mckee. [Apr 2023, p.88]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Matters Most is near faultless; a whole semester of song-craft in 40 minutes. [Jul 2023, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Although the second half of the album doesn't quite match up to the front, there's no sense it's dragging, either. [Dec 2015, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is a confidence and intensity at UCLA that explains why that concert was an under-the-counter favourite. [Jun 2022, p.96]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is simultaneously comforting and haunting, an emotional closeness that is both playful an unsettling. [Jun 2026, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tom Petty's turned his attention to a resume of his life so far -- 15 crunching, clever, moving tracks that make his earlier point far better, indicting the rest by breezy example. [July 2010, p. 96]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While Linkous’s tendencies to smudge and collapse his songs are apparent – not least the atmospheric disturbance of antique hymn O Child – so too is his generosity of songwriting spirit, positioning the bleakest sentiments in dynamic, questioning music.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eventually capturing both the sickly magenta beauty and unnatural creeping dread of Lovecraft's alien world. [May 2020, p.90]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The themes - anxiety, longing and dislocation - are familiar, but here Blonde redhead address their potent heartaches with renewed grace and strength. [Nov 2023, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sim's painful journey also feels like catharsis, and packs a vivid statement of musical intent. [Oct 2022, p.87]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This follow-up is stronger [than his debut]. [Apr 2009, p.109]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Allen turned 98 this year, yet the fire still burns brightly - his otherworldly creations keeping faith with his Afrofuturist mentor's grand design. [Nov 2022, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's not a giant leap but Elbow haven't been embraced to be wreckers of civilization. [Apr 2014, p.88]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On In Circles, with its plangent, Yan Tiersen-style piano, something wonderful happens--a feeling of limitlessness opening up. [Jun 2015, p.89]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Parisian has lost his cool, let rip, taken his metaphorical shirt off, and it sounds liberating.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the end it seems that the clearing of the elliptical fog has produced the quartet's most cohesive and rewarding album. [Jun 2014, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thompson’s extraordinary, lyrical guitar playing squirts out in occasional Day-Glo flashes, but the magic remains in his ability to keep his little microcosmos tightly marshalled. Bleak midwinter 4 EVA; spring forever unsprung. [Jul 2024, p.82]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At a couple of number shorter than its predecessor, Lazaretto packs a hell of a punch. [Jul 2014, p.84]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beneath Tweedy's twinkling lights, Crowell wears each look like a favourite old coat - familiar, easy, and pocked by stains and rips that remind him of all he's seen. [Jun 2023, p.91]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Basement Jaxx's energy and vision appears to be undiminished. [Oct 2014, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excellent third LP aligns with riot grrrl-era pop for its force and intelligence. [Aug 2023, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sound of a band re-energised, La Futura is possibly the hard rock album of the year. [Nov 2012, p.88]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No one said living "woke" was gonna be easy, but Thick turn the friction into furious, satisfying pop. [May 2020, p.95]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This sequel traverses reassuringly similar zones, with Tuttle's banjo threading in and out of the FX atmospherics, and an expanded instrumental cast - notably fellow travellers Chuck Johnson and Luke Schneider on pedal steel - operating with equal subtlety. [Sep 2022, p.86]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ozarker is both sentimental and hard-nosed, nostalgic about a past without ignoring the modern world's gritty reality. [Dec 2023, p.93]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joy Division, Suicide and JAMC collide for a post-punk racket: ear-splitting and sublimely desolate. [May 2018, p.98]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This band's charms are elusive, indeed, but uniquely compelling. [Dec. 2010, p. 99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She was born on Christmas Day, but has an unsentimental take on the holiday. [Jan. 2011, p. 94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A snapshot of the music driving Europe's cooler clubs. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is fresh music, making exciting shapes with primitive resources, and though some will find Longstreth's keening bleat and bravura deconstructions show-offy there are constant flowerings of devastating prettiness, and when all the singers blare in unison the beauty they summon is almost overwhelming. [Jul 2009, p.100]
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