Mojo's Scores

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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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halfway through, 39-year-old Jose James undergoes an astonishing transformation via the infectiously funky, Pharrell-esque, dance cuts Live Your Life, and Ladies Man, where he convincingly morphs onto a get-down disco dude. [Mar 2017, p.92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Smooth soul or hip hop tropes being largely the order of the day here. [Jul 2016, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The first half of their fifth studio album racing by, a blur of nimble fingers and frills. The second half, a 19-minute exploration of Pink Floyd's Echoes, will divide audiences along prog and classical lines. [May 2019, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With elements of synth-pop, new wave and blue-eyed soul distilled into a succession of heart-beating hits, Trial Of The Century is a record that gets better with each listen. [Dec 2004, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At its best, Weather Diaries rejuvenates their burn-it-down guitars ad pretty vacancy. ... But some of the old problems remain: a thin lyrical wash, an occasional plod. [Jul 2017, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Buckingham's pop ear is still highly attuned. [Oct 2011, p.106]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Dour, sub-Velvets melodies and droll, haiku-like lyrics tinged with desperation. [Sep 2001, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are times... when the stripping-down of The Jayhawks' aesthetic reveals [Gary Louris'] designs to be uncomfortably slight. [Apr 2003, p.92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Every one of these 12 self-composed, played and produced tracks is absolutely stickled with hooks. [March 2002, p.108]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Listening to Bob Wratten is as necessary as a good cry. [Jan 2002, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No huge amounts of new ground broken... but even a mediocre Kraftwerk album is still a work of near-genius. [Sep 2003, p.101]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Charitable largesse aside, it's a must-have for fans of anyone involved. [Sep 2009, p.98]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Skittery clicks and manipulated samples add heat and light to plucked guitar and breathy voice on songs that evolve in space-time. [Mar 2013, p.98]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The best songs here--the loose, Blaxploitation soul groove Bones; the Cat Stevens-like Deeper And Deeper--are those on which Harper sounds most relaxed and contemplative. [May 2016, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On the third Uni long-player--a series designed, unlike his starker glitch compositions, to work in dance clubs--the 52-yar-old's signature techno pulses and liminal keyboard clouds enmesh with comparative generosity. [May 2018, p.93]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Multi-layered backing vocals and summery hooks tickle the spine with every listen. [Aug 2006, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A splendid corollary to Mercury Rev's 1998 pastoral masterpiece, Deserter's Songs. [Jan 2005, p.94]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It really is good. [Jul 2005, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Cumbrian art-rockers go out on this crisp, thoroughly engaging high: a live in the studio, Boy King-heavy stroll through some of their big-hitters recorded at RAK in London over two days last summer. [Mar 2018, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neil Hagerty in the producer's chair is a good fit for an album that deliberately blurs the pre- and post-Nirvana boundaries. [Aug 2013, p.92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He serves us a telling portion of autobiographical, Nashville-flavoured Americana. [Nov 2014, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spektor delivers everything with such guileless brio that you never notice the join [between troubadour style to chrome-clean hip hop].
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unbalanced and unrelenting, it's a fascinating album, if difficult to enjoy. [Apr 2013, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If anything, it's darker [than Fenster's debut album], like clotted blood. [Apr 2014, p.97]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although the album's emphasis is on electronica--some of which is distinctly Balearic--these characteristically hymnal songs suggest fluid boundaries between each entity. [Dec 2017, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Teamed, the trio's rich vocal-blend and sometimes sparkling, sometimes scruffed modern country is deeply impressive. [Jan 2025, p.84]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bold, colorful creations. Surf is most definitely up. [Jan 2012, p.93]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While Perhacs' lyrics sometimes lapse into "I want to be free" hippy anachronism, only a churl would begrudge the still angelically-voiced 70-yeear-old her fealty to the Aquarian spirit. [Apr 2014, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Visitor is curiously passionless and on occassion, too closely tied to its background music references to get excited about. [Nov 2009, p.102]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    III
    III is third time lucky in all senses other than sadly-departed guitar visionary David Hackney being around to share in the joy it brings. [May 2014, p.87]
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