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
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The [7-year] hiatus hasn't impaired the band's vivid country-gothic grandeur one iota. [Apr 2012, p. 90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spalding's improvised ensemble pieces put pay to the tittle-tattle about jazz being dead. It is very much alive. [Apr 2012, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With high-gloss production, shameless retro references and big-thumbed slap bass, Kindness's album is frequently preposterous. Great pop music often is. [Apr 2012, p.89]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Uninhibited, Wrecking Ball misses a star here only because two love-among-the economic-ruins, This Depression and You've Got It, don't quite fit the big-theme fierceness - deep feelings to draw together whoever may listen. [Apr 2012, p. 89]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bowerbirds at their least bucolic, both expanding and focusing on a sound that is as timeless as The Band. [Apr 2012, p. 89]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A bustling, concise and sunny affair. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The greatest thing about this tribute album is that ... the biggest names on it ... all bring their A game. [Apr 2012, p. 88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A disappointment. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The instrumental work is impressive throughout, but Gidden's vocals are the main attraction. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The fire is back in his belly. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Effortlessly inventive and still full of invective. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimately, it's the combined sound of - there's no getting away from the word - ethereal vocals and cavernous, sometimes even martial dance rock that appeals rather than the detail. [Apr 2012, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a classic soul album, its strength lying in Fields' gift for storytelling and his extraordinary delivery. [Apr 2012, p. 86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Consistently absorbing, as good as any of Foxx's early-'80's benchmarks. [Apr 2012, p.86]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Only a slight dearth of killer melodies ... disappoints. [Apr 2012, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a seductive lesson in understated beauty. [Apr 2012, p.86]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is an easy album to like. [Apr 2012, p.85]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An ongoing reconnection with the experimental dandy in the mirror lends his latest work's stylistic pinballing a fun quotient that compensates for it's unevenness. [Apr 2012, p.84]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An album of melancholy and heartbreak that's at its best when the songs fall between all-out country rock ballads and bare bones ballads. [Apr 2012, p.84]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hypnotic, doomy, edgy, but strangely forgettable, too. [Apr 2012, p.84]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A formidable piece of work, repositioning Mercer away from his Pacific Northwest indie rock peer group. [Apr 2012, p.82]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of considerable weight. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sweet, shimmering, Swedish alt-pop. [April 2012, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    COYB trade in wintery, foreboding hymnals that conjure Sigur Ros, Radiohead and an existentially challenged Aled Jones staring out across the abyss. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ane Brun has never before sounded so alive.[March 2012, p.98]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With tensions at its core, Pre Language fuses white light with the darkness of anxiety. [Mar 2012, p.102]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In between strong original songs are arresting covers versions. [Mar 2012, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To fresh melodies of Guthrie would surely have smiled upon, the four adorn every lyric with fine guitar weaves of rollicking dance, rugged grind or Paris, Texas haunt. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    936
    This is a fine balancing of distance and engagement that put the shier back into chill out. [Mar 2012, p.103]
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