Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,509 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:
10509 music reviews
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In the best sense, she ticks boxes. With a slightly kooky voice, the bravery to unconventionally strip things down (the acoustic Dark is propelled by drums), a winning way with a hook (Missing Out swings) and a turn of phrase which veers from acerbic ("She says 'I might be a genius'/Well, she could be a model...") to lovelorn ("I want you to come over/So I can lay in your lap"). [Jul 2024, p.86]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The former [true gems] are plenty, the latter [filler are] few. [Aug 2012, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In places, it's intense, heavy and oppressive, but Uondapaturu and Skeleton Island pull off the trick of satisfying both party hedonists and those simply seeking gratification within the confines of their headphones. [Aug 2013, p.91]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another uniquely alluring Luna landing. [Nov 2004, p.110]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cohen joined by bass, pedal steel, brushed drums, recorder, flute and violin. This, if anything, has made her songs stranger still, breathing life into the ghostly riddles of cold watchmen and voices from the forest and releasing them out into the corporal world. [Nov 2016, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Part happy break-up LP, part honest look in the mirror, Extreme Witchcraft works magic. [Feb 2022, p.82]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For a record about a lonely planet, it makes all the right connections. [Sept. 2011, p. 96]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More than a curiosity. [Jan 2006, p.131]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Every song on Nothing's About To Happen To Me bears Mitski's distinctive mark. [Apr 2026, p.85]
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With his amiable croak and humour warming his observations, Manhattan is no bitter mope. [Dec 2015, p.90]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A feast of sonic juxtapositions, whimsical beats and massed vocal harmonies. [Jan 2018, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Juliana Giraffe's elastic phrasing on Doctor Says or Wednesday Baby's Carpenters lilt is key to the LA duo's second. [Feb 2021, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A delectably warm sonic pool that invites frequent plunges. [Feb 2020, p.91]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It makes a terrific album, stronger than Interpol's last two, with enough detail in the arrangement to separate Banks and his day job. [Nov 2012, p.95]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    True North feels both stoic and positive in outlook. [Mar 2019, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The feel is sweaty, late-night techno, and while the Detroit clatter and acid squelch is more alluring this time around, it's Saoudi's lascivious persona that really pulls yoyu into the album's nether world. [Feb 2025, p.84]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The soundtrack to an imaginary sci-fi flick about a robot astronaut... Smart, rather moving, proggy, psych-electronica. [Aug. 2011, p. 104]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The brooding 'Singing Man' and the euphorically optimistic 'Rising Up' underline that the best hip hop is about taking chances. [July 2008, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Few albums meld frank postcards from the psyche with such poppy directness. [Apr 2016, p.93]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grand intermeshing spinneys of lush ambient sound, distant pounding beats, lonesome horns and glimpsed shadows of melody that hint at Beethoven, Mozart and older Teutonic ghosts. [Jun 2017, p.89]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A pleasingly melodious onrush from which a complete absence of rhythmic funk fails to detract. [May 2009, p.108]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Just like her collaborator Bon Iver, Lia Ices seems to instinctively know that less is delectably more. [Mar 2011, p.p94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luna's obsessive valve-amp loveliness is here supplanted by a more varied spread. [Apr 2014, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Oneida may well be evil geniuses in the midst of creating a classic, multi-album masterpiece. [Aug 2009, p.103]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simon's new music sounds inventive, surprising and catchy to boot. [Jul 2016, p.94]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is recycling as artistic endeavour. [Sep 2020, p.91]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    Espers III is brilliantly atmospheric, more chilling than chilled but also, frequently, very beautiful. [Dec 2009. p. 94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Retains the gum-tingling pop harmonies and guitar-throttling riffs of previous albums, but their reedy punk sinew has swollen into rock muscle. [Jun 2004, p.112]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her torch-song voice is often exposed by spare arrangements - a solemn piano or glowing embers of electric guitar - but songs also burst into euphoric life, like exorcisms. [Jan 2023, p.91]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    May
    May's 10 songs are barely there yet carry genuine emotional heft thanks to Voss Romme's tremulous, close-up-and-personal vocal delivery. [Jun 2014, p.94]
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