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
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a punkish, uncompromising bravery to tracks like Raging Earths--piledriving beats and a gathering storm of swelling synths--that's strangely compelling. [Jun 2019, p.95]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The first half of this Bristol-based quartet's debut is too idolatrous, but the second plunges into deeper cavernous spaces. [Apr 2015, p.89]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With the frustrating Violent Light, Wilson has surrendered his own persona. [Apr 2014, p.97]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's only when Lennon takes over that the collaboration really works. [Jul 2016, p.94]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An amibitious record. [Dec 2003, p.113]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [A] thrilling state-of-a-broken-nation address. [Jun 2013, p.95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Moddi's own arrangements, translations and distinctive Donovan-esque tones ensures Unsongs coheres as a n album as well as an eye-opening lesson in the importance of music. [Nov 2016, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Sun Awakens isn't wildly different (from its predecessor)--though it introduces tripped-out electric guitars to Chasny's homespun palette. [Jul 2006, p.102]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You're left feeling less !!! than ??? [Apr 2007, p.102]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Great to have back that little razor edge that Lytle loses when he steps away from his bandmates, but this might be the last time he gets away with it without a major rethink. [Apr 2017, p.96]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As feisty good-time rock goes, the Stones get good and gone and its worth every penny for the duet with Buddy Guy on Muddy Waters' 'Champagne and Reffer' alone. [May 2008, p.103]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What follows in this set is a chaos of experiment and assigned alliances. ... Ironically, the oldest recordings on You're The Man are--that single excepted--among the best Gaye here. [May 2019, p.100]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Outlaw doesn't deliver six-pack sagas, instead he offers Bottomless Mimosas as a morning pick-me-up. [Jun 2017, p.93]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's breathless stuff, but can feel homogenous after a while. [Apr 2014, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Just a tad more quirkiness would be welcome. [Jul 2016, p.92]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Another album big on willful naivete and arrangements so pretty they make Belle & Sebastian sound like Finnish black metal. [Jun 2013, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Michael Collins' latest sounds like a 21st century Ween--knowing pastiches of '70s Laurel Canyon, '60s jazz soundtracks and more, with guests. [Oct 2016, p.100]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Top heavy with gleeful dysfunctional relationship songs, though eventually stalling via forgettable '80s rock mediocrity. [Dec 2003, p.109]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk's 30 minutes stand on their own despite nods to Flaming Lips' darker side and Linear Downfall's fascination with early King Crimson. [Sep 2014, p.91]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though overly familiar for boomers, perhaps, Wasted On Youth's sibling rivalry-fuelled irreverence will likely chime with Gen Z kids seeking their own Oasis, not mum and dad's. [Apr 2026, p.86]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anyone possessing their previous output will find little in the way of reinvention. [Oct 2006, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Strings, gospel choirs, outeros inspired by Queen--the Manics' 10th album cranks up the drama, but in their hands grandiose needn't be a dirty word. [Oct 2010, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The band retreated into the more self-contained approach which has spawned My other People. [Jul 2022, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though Anderson buries his voice and words in the maelstrom, his declared (if not immediately) apparent) theme of a constantly thwarted search for "true love" seems right at home in shoegazing's characteristic marriage of bliss and anxiety. [Dec 2023, p.93]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It is mainly a joyous affair, good-timey in a well structured way and often reminiscent of the kind of thing Johnny Rivers used to dispense at the start of the '70s. [Apr 2009, p.101]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Adrift in a sun-warped dome of guitar wah, wobble and dub. [Apr 2015, p.89]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Something Dirty is powerful and multi-textured, but there's less of the studio experimentation that marked 2009's C'est Com...Com...Complique, despite Peron being promisingly credited with flamethrower and goat hooves. [Mar 2011, p.98]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweet, then, but you wouldn't eat a whole one. [Apr 2014, p.98]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Another sprawling, somewhat overwrought Ashcroft solo record. [Jun 2016, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Another point of reference is Gorky's Zygotic Mynic and it's Girl Ray's appropriation of their scherzo sensibility lifts the three-piece beyond pastiche, feeding songs such as Don't Go Back St Ten and Where Am I Now with a musical strangeness that's totally alluring. [Sep 2017, p.90]
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