Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,507 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:
10507 music reviews
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Lillywhite Sessions doesn't just open another window into Walker's mind, it points out a door to a place beyond. Not everyone will want to go too far through it, but it's an alluring gateway. [Jan 2019, p.86]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No amount of heavy-friend noodling can redeem One Night Stand and Driving Me Wild, and Ferry's Send In The Clowns would have Krusty renouncing his vocation. [Dec 2014, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A deft pop nous and palpable devotion to his influences ensures each experiment really works. [Aug 2013, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The County Durham punks' first in 36 years is suitably grown-up if a little underwhelming. [Nov 2015, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Like a Gibby Haynes-fronted Bongwater. [May 2016, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is the work of an artist who, seemingly despite himself, has turned into a major contender. [May 2016, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A zippy half-hour's worth of inspired, unlikely juxtapositions and deftly perverse songcraft. [Oct 2016, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As with its predecessors, Compulsion Songs is jammed with feedback-laden throwback journeys that still worship respectfully at the altar of Spacemen 3, The Jesus And Mary Chain and Sonic Youth. [Nov 2016, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not as humorous as 2Bears nor as wistful as Hot Chip, here Goddard further explores the potency of the danncefloor combined with intelligent, leftfield pop. [May 2017, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, it's the sheer quality of Nau's songwriting that truly impresses. [Jul 2017, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A moonstruck Frankenstein builds percussive layers, then juxtaposes classical, opera and jazz samples in shadowy odes to the night. [Mar 2020, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    2015's Tape Hiss, Rats On Rafts were as unrelenting. Now they've added impenetrability to the armoury. [Mar 2021, p.86]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's all expertly arranged to maximise the unbrushed bohemian intensity. [Aug 2022, p.86]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perfect for Twin Peaks' Bang Bang bar, but at 90 minutes duration its lesser parts drag like an over-indulgent director's cut. [Oct 2022, p.87]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Empire State Bastard make you feel like you've been in a cage fight with Mike Tyson. [Oct 2023, p.82]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Like all tribute albums it's a mixed bag. [Jul 2025, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Familiar BJM territory perhaps, but they still inhabit a different, more enticing cosmos to their peers. [Jul 2014, p.87]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While this ninth LP retains Plaid's signature style, it also offers far more range than dependable recent outings Reachy Prints or Scintilli. [Aug 2016, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A trip for questing bohemians of every persuasion. [Dec. 2011 p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    16 lightly fried examples of his gift for surrealist pop/classic rock synthesis. [Jan 2014, p.104]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stereolab fans will not be disappointed. [Nov 2014, p.95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For all its neo-classical leanings, Frahm's music engages emotion as much as intellect, these sketches and fragments offering a meditative respite from a world far more chaotic than this music. [Jan 2022, p.83]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fireworks teems with drama. [Oct 2007, p.102]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Life In The Dark constantly threatens to fall apart at the seams but the Felices miraculously hold their world together, the greatest campfire band imaginable. [Aug 2016, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These opaque, often uneasy sounding songs conjure nature's unpredictability and vulnerability as well as its beauty. [Jul 2022, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Angles homespun demeanour is key to its appeal. There are flaws. [Apr 2011, p.95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unmap transcends such mood geometrics thanks to Vernon's mostly wordless incantations. [Oct 2009, p.99]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Theirs is an ire that deserves to be heard. [Dec 2006, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Demos have emerged from 1965-66, 1968 and 1973, but these 13 are the best yet. [Jan 2017, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Maybe all originals next time? [Sep 2005, p.89]
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