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
    • 80 Critic Score
    In classic Brit-rock style it is this intrepid combo's assembly of these disparate echoes into something of their own that takes them ever closer to the pantheon of greats. Join the Dots is another exhilarating leap in that direction. [Jan 2014, p95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They still sing some parts in unison, but here their voices are arranged more imaginatively. [May 2014, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alone, the music feels like a too-long experiment, albeit punctuated by lovely songs. [Oct 2016, p.109]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    More accessible than of old. [Mar 2003, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Evern more so than on Silence Is Sexy... a few telling elements are deployed to dramatic effect here. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier's prettiest songs since '95's Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center. [Oct 2001, p.116]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another masterfully blended cocktail of restless electronic beats, analogue daubings and digitally blasted vocals. [Nov 2002, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An hour of heartful, artful singing enhanced by dense, yet fuss-free arrangements. [Jan 2004, p.106]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Classic OMD tropes are almost overdone on this, their 13th studio album. [Oct 2017, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Better still [than 'Stepp Off']. [Sep 2006, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gardot's torch ballads smoulder intensely. [Apr 2009, p.103]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Premiership stuff! [Sep 2010, p.103]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With its beautifully balances smorgasbord of UK garage, drum 'n 'bass, this is the album the person on the night bus in records by Burial would really be digging. [Jun 2013, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It eschews the compartmentalised, glossy, compressed production sound du jour for a red-blooded, powerful live feel full of adrenalin and excitement. [Oct 2013, p.90]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Played with a straight face rather than a raised eyebrow, the whole thing is a gas. [Dec 2016, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Good-natured guitar pop from Brighton-via-California by a young all-male quartet with a flair or radio-ready melodies. [Apr 2018, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Miller and Lauderdale's duets has both the easy familiarity of old friends and the musicianship of old pros. [Mar 2013, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sardonic, wistful, always finely wrought songs. [Apr 2014, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At points they're both elegant and, dare we say it, beautiful, so if this is the emperor's new clothes then they're wonderfully cut. [Jul 2009, p.97]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you open your album with a song, 'Hard Times,' which rails against the mediocrity of the modern world, it might be worth ensuring it isn't the only tune out of 14 that sticks in the memory. [Jul 2009, p.105]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are so many tricks twirling for your attention that the effect is a little like wearing all your clothes at once. [Jun 2005, p.100]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is a richly textured debut that creates a very agreeable collision between the organic and the electronic. [Feb 2011, p.100]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Do you like reading poetry while folded into a big armchair in some sunny corner? You'll love False Beats And True Hearts. [Jun 2011, p.102]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their polemic backed-up by their abundant charms, not least the plentiful guitar heroics of frontman Rick Rizzo, evoking both the lyricism of Neil Young and the artful amp abuse of Sonic Youth in their thrilling scree. [Jun 2011, p.106]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The naff raps and Auto-Tuned gloop can't spoil the addictive rush of the air-punching, get-pissed-destroy-a-bus-shelter anthems that abound here. [Jan 2012, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Redeemer finds Blunt adding a series of potent new weapons to an already well-stocked musical armoury. [Jun 2013, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It may seem an unlikely match, but Martin and Brickell bring out the best in each other. [Jun 2013, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A promising diversity of ideas, tempo and riffs. [Feb 2018, p.97]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although the listener doesn't expect dynamics in this kind of music, there is little variation in either its colour and timbre. [Aug 2020, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He's pushed his sound forwards into more mature, less swaggering territory and recruited non-threatening guests Paul O'Grady and Corinne Bailey Rae. [Mar 2022, p.83]
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