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
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With no grounding bass, the groove is understated on a 13-minute title track that imperceptibly limbers from low-end oscillations and primitive pitter-patter into a billowing, blazing free jazz-prog odyssey in its own distinct dimension. Szun Waves sweep you into it. [Nov 2018, p.95]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easy on the ear yet never sugary, full and layered yet never stodgy, intricately assembled yet never fussy, pulsing with a Ringo beat yet never monotonous. [Nov 2012, p.91]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wholly drums-free, it takes time to reveal its charms. [Mar 2021, p.85]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Johns and his Black Dogs shine throughout. [Jan 2016, p.90]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seduces with a mixture of whimsical beauty and compelling mystery. [Jun 2007, p.101]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Never just black and white, nor blatantly "cinematic," it operates in subtle shades of grey and sepia, flushing with urgent instrumental colour when the internal simmering becomes too much. [Feb 2016, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isla feeds on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic. [Nov 2009, p.100]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This band brings a grubby beauty to a sound imbued with the insidious durability of the Buckingham-Nicks Fleetwood Mac. [Sep 2007, p.105]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It makes for a spiritual and mind-stretching experience one minute, woozy and disorienting the next. [Jan 2013, p.100]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whatever is behind Sigur Ros's ineffable Nordic magic, it doesn't appear to be powered by electricity. [Dec 2007, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A future late-night classic. [Jul 2020, p.80]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might be another album indebted to the '80s, but the sound of discovery has seldom been such fun as is. [Nov 2010, p.107]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An immersive, deeply satisfying work that doubles down on the experimentalism he brought to The Frames. [May 2019, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here they sound commanding and convincing as they do on-stage. [Mar 2009, p.111]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He still sings very much from the heart, though, and the result is altogether awesome. [Apr 2013, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs on All These Dreams luxuriate in their arrangements, swept along by gossamer strings, and silky backing vocals. [Apr 2015, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hamilton's second album only firms up a reputation for making pastoral, semi-acoustic pop. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Jessy Lanza's case, disruption has elevated artistic output. [Jul 2020, p.82]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The most fun comes, unsurprisingly, on the funkier first side. [Jul 2018, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's almost too strenuous in its attempts to top its predecessors, 20212's Big Inner and 2015's Fresh Blood, but once inside White's all-enveloping world, there's no space to worry too much. [Oct 2021, p.98]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slick's shuddering electro, 808 handclaps and foundation-bothering Miami bass drops go to work on your endorphin levels and display astute songcraft. [Mar 2010, p.100]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They sound in rude health to me. [Aug 2018, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shakedown and Sell Your Soul feel triumphant in a way indie-rock has rarely managed of late, while an intoxicating weirdness drives even their most anthemic moments. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that's a steady pleasure from start to finish. [Jul 2012, p.82]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When the storm clouds on final cut Protection finally part,Okumu riffing like The Edge mainlining steroids, it completes as astonishing redemptive arc brighter than any rainbow. [Jul 2012, p.92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gem. [Nov 2004, p.98]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a vivid glimpse of a phenomenon on the cusp of mega-fame. [Jan 2022, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sturdy enough vehicle for Young's polemics, Crazy Horse are an even stronger conduit for the metaphysics of their union. ... But when you want it dark, no one does dark like Neil Young and Crazy Horse. [Jan 2022, p.80]
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The whole of Open Arms is much larger than the sum of its parts. [Jan 2022, p.89]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Canadian power-poppers celebrate hyper-melodic 20th birthday. [Sept. 2011, p. 94]
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