Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,509 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: 6,863 out of 10509
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10509
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Negative: 34 out of 10509
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Sandman spent two years in his home studio experimenting with the band's dark, often minimalist sound and the result is this lusher, more fully realised album, whose brooding, narcotic Len-Cohen-goes-jazz title track is followed by songs that are variously cool, unsettling, sensual, personal and party-time funky.- Mojo
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Their musicianship--flamboyant but never self-indulgent, focused always on the groove--and their sticky-fingered songwriting charm throughout. [Apr 2016, p.87]- Mojo
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Ekki Mukk is a gossamer-light, if strangely riveting voice in the wilderness, while Varoelder drifts agreeably off into softly chiming waves of yearning desolation. Less stirring are the ambience-flecked, tympani-tickled meanderings that fill out much of the rest of the hour. [Jul 2012, p.90]- Mojo
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Their albums from this period were a little low on magic, but this is the real deal, an organic sound full of strange, shadowy moods and adventurous and melodic playing. [Nov 2022, p.104]- Mojo
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The new wave veteran's magic touch has left his current charges' blend of plaintive pop and indie-punk edginess a tad shinier but otherwise safely intact. [Apr 2015, p.92]- Mojo
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Springsteen's choice of songs, especially in the deep tracks and left turns, also i=underscores a deeper retrospect and aspiration. [Jan 2023, p.82]- Mojo
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Its sound remains as confrontational and as provocative as its content. [Aug 2006, p.103]- Mojo
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Some artists, such as Beck and Khruangbin with their art-funk overhauls of Fund My Way and Pretty Boys respectively, build traditional, if inventive remixes around Macca's vocals. Other go further and basically cover the songs. [Aug 2021, p.83]- Mojo
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Rosewood Almanac more than transcends its influences. [Jun 2017, p.93]- Mojo
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Those bummed that the proggy leanings of his Jicks have encouraged former Pavement stepper Malkmus to indulge his inner Saxondale will find much to love on their sixth album. [Feb 2014, p.88]- Mojo
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Free Nationals' blissed-out, woozy slow-jams make for a low-key triumph. [Feb 2020, p.90]- Mojo
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There is no doubt that Ditto can command the attention, but these songs don't quite sweeten the deal enough. [Jul 2017, p.89]- Mojo
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Their third album is more highly evolved than what normally constitutes straight up good-time rock. [Feb 2009, p.105]- Mojo
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A masterful song cycle of raw confessionals, ghostly R&B and gritty stompers, all channelled via intense vocals that razor and soothe. [Nov 2013, p.94]- Mojo
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A few shuffling moments suggest Sunday pub lunch surrounding by Bugaboos, but when Gonzalez hits his meditative stride--Every Age's there-is-a-season stateliness, the post-rock smudges of What Will---he owns the room. [Mar 2014, p.98]- Mojo
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Primitives finds him channeling the celestial overlaid vocals of AnCo, Toro Y Moi's soaring gauzy electronic pop, the live, looping sample techniques of tUnE-yArDs and D.D. Dumbo, and even Steve Reich's shuddering, percussive experiments in repetition--with charming results. [Dec 2016, p.93]- Mojo
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On Reflection swirls, flutters and swoops like leaves on the breeze. [Jan 2018, p.89]- Mojo
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Hands Of Glory is a flamboyant country cousin [to 2012's Break it Yourself]. [Feb 2013, p.92]- Mojo
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Though songs including the shimmering So Now You Know and the Manuel Gottsching-like In And Out Of Sight maintain a stirring balance of shimmying pop appeal and experimentation, elsewhere the momentum is compromised and peaks are obscured. [Jun 2014, p.88]- Mojo
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The intervening nine songs jump between genres with varied success, with a fee whimsical tracks sticking out like sore thumbs. [Oct 2018, p.88]- Mojo
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Lightburn continues to enthral though, his heartfelt, inventive arrangements testament to many questing hours in the studio. [Dec 2008, p.112]- Mojo
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Silver Eye shows mo loss of conviction, a dense, meditative collection that explores cosmic mysteries and natural wonders without any wispiness. [May 2017, p.92]- Mojo
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She's neither a soft seducer nor a lapel-grabber, but her eye for detail combined with that degree of vocal detachment quietly commands attention. [Mar 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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Isaak, whose singing voice is naturally full and resonant, is most at home with the Presley tunes... but the Lewis and Perkins homages don't quite add up. [Jan 2012, p.91]- Mojo
Posted May 31, 2012 -
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Hard, hearty and at home amid the grooves set out by the venerable likes of the Hodges brothers. [Feb 2014, p.96]- Mojo
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Choral folk pop reveries and soft rock tease out the cosmic everyday. [Jun 2016, p.97]- Mojo
Posted May 2, 2016