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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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]- Mojo
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By the end, As If makes you want to run away, arm in arm with the night. [Nov 2015, p.93]- Mojo
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They offer up a wonderful lysergic carousel of communal singalongs, spiked pop and tribal hoedowns. [Nov 2007, p.95]- Mojo
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Too often their untethered jangle neglects the other side of the tight-but-loose equation. [Jun 2016, p.97]- Mojo
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The record is starting to sound worn. [May 2011, p.105]- Mojo
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Tends to drift in one and out the other at times. [Jan 2005, p.102]- Mojo
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Every time you think you've got to the bottom of a particular song, another layer of intrigue presents itself. [Oct 2003, p.118]- Mojo
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He puts down the rumour-mongers with an acid tongue. [Nov 2004, p.100]- Mojo
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Farrar has rarely sounded so stirring on record. [Aug 2004, p.89]- Mojo
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There's no denying the intuitive understanding Stone has of the often daunting material she tackles. [Mar 2004, p.104]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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Much here stands in marked contrast to that lushly arranged benchmark ["The Shepherd's Dog"]. [Jul 2009, p.114]- Mojo
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Gloriously nonsensical and beautifully out there, this is a joyful triumph. [Oct 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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Martin-McCormick's vocals remain a deal-breaker, his high-pitched yelp threatening to overheat otehrwise superb, noise-slicked bangers. [June 2010, p. 104]- Mojo
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Metheny returns with a beautifully understated acoustic album whose virtue is its bare-boned simplicity. [Sept. 2011, p. 98]- Mojo
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It gives all sorts of instrumentation the confidence to surprise us. [Nov 2011, p.102]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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Rambling, stoner guitar and drifting synths elevated by radiant percussion. [Dec 2012, p.96]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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Chiaroscuro is the contrast between light and dark in visual art, and I Break Horses' second album is similarly conflicted. [Feb 2014, p.97]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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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.- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jul 29, 2015