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
    • 60 Critic Score
    Walk Thru Me Andrew Perry feels less vibey and cutting-edge, with occasional polemical tunes reedily voiced by Davis, and Barlow brooding on grown-up issues like parenthood (My Little Lamb) and battling depression (Crepuscular) – not different enough from latterday Sebadoh, or indeed solo Barlow, surely, to reprise 1995’s commercial uplift. [Aug 2024, p.84]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    New material like See What Love Did To Me sits well alongside these [four songs from 1967's New Masters album]. [Oct 2017, p.91]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Amid the jams and Vietnamese trim, neat ideas coalesce. [Dec 2018, p.94]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Filmic instrumentals ranging in mood from Badalamenti oddness to bright piano etudes and reflective gloom. [Nov 2018, p.96]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At the heart of this overgrown squall of a record, there's a sense that The Strokes feel they have something to prove. If only they'd been able to decide upon what that is with greater clarity. [Feb 2006, p.88]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Queasy melodies, light-headed keys and emaciated Smiths guitar flourishes slowly generate a dank unease. [Nov 2012, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's easy groove doesn't suggest exhaustion, just peace of mind. [Jan 2019, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the tracks that mix it up a bit that appeal most. [Apr 2024, p.90]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
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    Not everything hits the mark. [Aug 2016, p.98]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Grief therapy has rarely sounded so groovy. [Jul 2013, p.85]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The best new tracks' confidence boosts the band's emotional clout. [Oct 2019, p.88]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's not perfect by any means, and having two of the weakest tracks in pole positions doesn't help. [May 2002, p.98]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It feels doubly elegiac, a mood best caught by Nick Cave's tremendous Cosmic Dancer. Even so, there's fun to be had. [Oct 2020, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Part 2's brittle, somewhat alienating production isn't exactly subtle. ... Foals sound like they are overreaching themselves a little. Two highly ambitious, thematically-linked albums in six months was always a big ask. [Nov 2019, p.86]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a mess of ambition and avant overload, and often too much, but you can't help but admire The New Sound's Stevie Chick wild abandon. And while the whirlwind of concepts and sonic right-turns ultimately fails to cohere, its thrills are many. [Nov 2024, p.84]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eclectic as it is, Weatherhouse is largely convincing evidence of a singular voice being belatedly found. [Nov 2014, p.99]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    US party band !!!'s fourth is a holiday record, full of movement and heat and things that feel tired and cheesy at home, but are good, sleazy fun when you're away. [Sep 2010, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Possibly an album for Boz's benefit more than anyone else's. [Apr 2013, p.91]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Much here stands in marked contrast to that lushly arranged benchmark ["The Shepherd's Dog"]. [Jul 2009, p.114]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is much here to enjoy. [May 2012, p.93]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Results range from the radio-friendly but obvious to the obscure but not a word out of place. [Oct 2021, p.96]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ecstasy is definitely a Lou Reed record for Lou Reed fans. If you're a happy regular shopper at Lou's Boutique, this one'll fit nicely on the shelf alongside all the others.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Higher-proof versions of both music and visuals exist, but these songs stand up all by themselves. [Jul 2013, p.85]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's much to applaud about Bow To Love as Campbell targets toxic masculinity (Everything Falls Apart) and the distancing, dehumanising aspects of social media (4316), but you sometimes feel only the shallows od her rhyming dictionary are being plumbed. [Jun 2024, p.82]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Air Museum sees the Brooklyn duo largely trade computer manipulation for the studio, processing instruments using analogue gear. [July 2011, p. 105]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What makes everything tick is Berman's plausibly gooey hooks, matched by guitars sparkling like diamante--just the ticket for shiny, happy people. [Jul 2014, p.95]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lovely though these songs are, it’s hard not to feel they demand a similar attention, your mind fighting to impose structure on their swathes of classic rock signifiers, their lyrical opacity. Izenberg might be getting closer to his music, but he’s still oddly far away. [Sep 2024, p.84]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It is impossible to wholly mess up a great pop songwriter's work; second, it is equally impossible to improve upon a perfectly crafted original recording. [Nov 2014, p.100]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Once they settle in, Cats In Paris could be a hyper-modern Stackridge. [Sep 2008, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With one million sales, the French quartet can be forgiven for not messing with the formula here. [May 2013, p.86]
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