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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green Day are admirably assured, honest, and funny on Saviors. [Mar 2024, p.82]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Krautrock surrogates get expansive on fourth album. [March 2011, p. 96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A disappointment. [Apr 2012, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gorky's play it spare and (mostly) live, placing further emphasis on their long-established pastoral bent. [Sep 2003, p.100]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The solo J. has all the heartfelt keening of Where You Been-era Dinosaur, but with a fresh approach to his trademark blending of powerchords and melodies.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They're a little short on the kind of tunefulness necessary to make these chorus-less songs stand out. [Dec 2003, p.112]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [The] eight covers [are] all imaginatively and emotionally committed, six of them brilliantly so. [July 2002, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dusky, angsty synth-pop. [Apr 2004, p.103]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Showcases her passionate and bittersweet voice in a stripped-down atmosphere. [Aug 2002, p.104]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A newly dynamic SAG here build on the intuitive eclecticism of last year's "59:59" debut. [Nov 2009, p.100]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They're still best when the basic Paco Pena influences surface. [Feb 2012, p.94]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A sense of growth, impermanence and yearning runs through these songs. [Mar 2016, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lee is free--and it sounds wonderful. [Oct 2017, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A band featuring such like-minded oddballs as Sufjan Stevens lend nice textures to the psychedelic swirls of Olympic Portions and Hovering Above That Hill, but simpler fare is more memorable. [Apr 2011, p.101]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Instead of dynamism there is a defiantly "demos" feel to tracks that makes for a charming, fat-free album. [Apr 2014, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A burbling concept piece with moments of poppy and demonic. [Oct 2016, p.100]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    V comes as a spellbinding corrective. [May 2013, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With Keep Your Eyes Ahead Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel have pushed their fringes out of the way to display a new focus. [Mar 2008, p.112]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is much to love here, just as much to hate, and nothing to be indifferent about. [Mar 2010, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This crisply produced second LP sticks rigidly to the same mandate--big beats and bigger tunes--and feels a little dated as a result. [Jun 2011, p.97]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The years haven't deadened Lucero's spirit: indeed, that experience only lends their ballads and brawlers a weightier punch. [Jan 2013, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Elsewhere, Lamontange's vocals slip back into mope mode, but his tour band's firm playing and decent string arrangemebts add an aura of depth and substance. [Dec 2008, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If the initial listening experience challenges, long-term exposure unfurls Instrumental Tourist's full beauty. [Jan 2013, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Album seven hits a sweet spot between prog and power-chords. [March 2011, p. 108]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If the imagery on this album is often solemn--ice, looming meteorological disaster, remote canyons--it isn't melodramtically so. [June 2008, p.109]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressive as it all is, a genuine follow-up to Illinois feels overdue. [Dec 2009, p. 92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Velocifero is comparable to pop at its best--travelling straight to the brain's pleasure centres but taking a strange tantalising cargo with it. [July 2008, p.110]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a downbeat party, but one with real atmosphere. [May 2012, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Her candy floss-flavoured cough syrup vocals will be a little sweet for some tastes on first hearing, but when backed up with an acid lyrical kick, the overall effect is devastatingly insidious. [Sep 2013, p.95]
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