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 focus remains upon Lightbody's gauche romantic vignettes; nirvana for those who believe the world could usefully sustain a second Lou Barlow, but over an album's duration akin to persistent immersion in lukewarm herbal tea. [Sep 2002, p.104]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Plenty of smokey psychedelia, country-rockin' fun and damn fine tunes. [Oct 2003, p.122]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's sex music for oddballs. [Sep 2012, p.89]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is intended to be the lighter of the two albums although the stylistic differences aren't great. [Jun 2017, p.91]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At their indie-disco feyest they can elicit comparisons with Hot Chip, but Lightbulbs trips the dark fantastic in its own deadpan style. [Sep 2008, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a shame Eisold has lost some of individuality, but you can't fault him for hook-fueled momentum. [May 2011, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The quintet's first bona fide album in five years, perhaps acknowledges the baton passing, as does an absence of post-rock tropes. [Jul 2009, p.97]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On Bella, Thompson is once again in the crossfire of a stop-start relationship. [March 2011, p. 109]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The shimmering finger-picking and angelic backing vocals of Old Pine build a cosy fireside vibe, but elsewhere the upbeat hoedowns are less impressive. [Nov 2011, p. 92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tastefully gauzy production elevates Indian-based KK's indie-psych pop second. [Mar 2020, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The group have been honing their craft for over 20 years and all their trademarks can be found here. [Jun 2018, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The truth is, her lion's mane voice is best suited to expressing thick-browed emotions like paranoia or picking at the carcass of a long dead relationship. [Apr 2014, p.94]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fans of mavericks like Mark Stewart, and indeed Mr. Van Vilet, should investigate. [Feb 2009, p.109]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Most compelling on the looser, less slick numbers. [Aug 2014, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
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    1991's indie strivers and success stories, over three nugget-selected discs. [Mar 2022, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Moon Duo] channels Velvets fuzz-rock through Spacemen 3 drone on a psychedelic trip, with wah-wah and lethargic vocal drawl. [Dec 2012, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The package as a whole doesn't invite repeated listens. [Jan 2017, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not exactly left field, but on the right track. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A bit shambolic, then, but Thao has enough charisma to sustain hearing it all in one sitting. [Mar 2013, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a few tracks too long, but it's easy to get lost in its smoked-out haze. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are several instant classics here. [Oct 2015, p.94]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A familiar narrative, perhaps, but rendered with uniquely mordant wit. [Apr 2017, p.91]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A soaring Here In Spirit joins reincarnation musing Who Am I? at the pinnacle of its daft-genius. [Jan 2020, p.92]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Motorpsycho's commitment to their heavy cause is admirable, but even part-timers will benefit from a day trip through their universe. [May 2026, p.88]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is The Chemical Brothers at their crowd-pleasing, raucous best. [July 2010]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Nelson] moves effortlessly from pop country balladry to well-heated Western Swing. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whitley's is an unconventional neo-soul debut. [Apr 2013, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Permanent Signal drinks from a similar, if sonically expanded pool [as 2012 debut Strange Weekend]. [Sep 2013, p.94]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Taylor Hawkins indulges his '70s hard rock fantasy. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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