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
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rare Birds unpacks a wealth of sonic detail. In the best way, this feels like a record you could lose yourself in for months. [Apr 2018, p.87]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the end, As If makes you want to run away, arm in arm with the night. [Nov 2015, p.93]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They offer up a wonderful lysergic carousel of communal singalongs, spiked pop and tribal hoedowns. [Nov 2007, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Too often their untethered jangle neglects the other side of the tight-but-loose equation. [Jun 2016, p.97]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The record is starting to sound worn. [May 2011, p.105]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tends to drift in one and out the other at times. [Jan 2005, p.102]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Every time you think you've got to the bottom of a particular song, another layer of intrigue presents itself. [Oct 2003, p.118]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He puts down the rumour-mongers with an acid tongue. [Nov 2004, p.100]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Farrar has rarely sounded so stirring on record. [Aug 2004, p.89]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's no denying the intuitive understanding Stone has of the often daunting material she tackles. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They present a united, often more supple front. [Nov 2003, p.131]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With her flinty guitar growling eloquent melodies and stricken solos, the group rock with a primal sensitivity akin to early Throwing Muses, but it's Powell's voice that's their truly irresistible element. [Nov 2008, p.118]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While there is no quibbling with the noble sentiment behind this set, a more judicial selection policy might have established a unified aesthetic to eclipse some of the B-side material here. [Mar 2009, p.114]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is fabulous, Ogerman framing Krall's sultry, languorous delivery with arrangements that are opulent yet don't swamp her voice. [Jul 2009, p.93]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Much here stands in marked contrast to that lushly arranged benchmark ["The Shepherd's Dog"]. [Jul 2009, p.114]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gloriously nonsensical and beautifully out there, this is a joyful triumph. [Oct 2009, p.107]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Martin-McCormick's vocals remain a deal-breaker, his high-pitched yelp threatening to overheat otehrwise superb, noise-slicked bangers. [June 2010, p. 104]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Metheny returns with a beautifully understated acoustic album whose virtue is its bare-boned simplicity. [Sept. 2011, p. 98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It gives all sorts of instrumentation the confidence to surprise us. [Nov 2011, p.102]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exudes warmth. [Dec. 2011 p.94]
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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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rambling, stoner guitar and drifting synths elevated by radiant percussion. [Dec 2012, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This fourth record in six years is another gem, a touch rockier than 2011's saccharine Lollipop, but no less sublime. [May 2013, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A set of seamless, lyrically concise songs that are as sweet and harmonic as their pairing suggests but also strangely stilted. [Dec 2013, p.92]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chiaroscuro is the contrast between light and dark in visual art, and I Break Horses' second album is similarly conflicted. [Feb 2014, p.97]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tiersen lays out nine densely dripping songs, full of lavish orchestration, indeterminate clanking and on the choral Midsummer Evening, a kind of Wicca-pop maelstrom. [Jun 2014, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs are rigorously infectious. [Jul 2014, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hard to know if he's upbeat or down--at times it might be a break-up album--but enjoyable either way. [Nov 2014, p.92]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s subtle, it won’t grab you by the lapels, much less the jockstrap or G-string, but it does carry that twangy tang of life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bowness's delivery on the more subdued material tends to revisit similar melodic cadences, but when the musicians inject more energy, as on The Great Electric Teenage Dream and the gorgeous Sing To Me, the music is transported to a different level. [Sep 2015, p.90]
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