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
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the quality of the material--not just the three vocal takes each by Jack White and Norah Jones, but also the supple and atmospheric instrumental interludes-- that elevates Rome beyond Pastiche and into the realm of cinematic enchantment. [May 2011, p.105]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Treetop Flyers have perhaps wisely chosen to avoid Mumfords' bombastic path for an altogether sunnier route. [Jun 2013, p.88]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mollestad confirms her love of The Melvins, Sonny Sharrock and six-string gymnastics. [Jun 2013, p.95]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    OOIOO create a continually changing mandala of sounds somewhere between Boredom's sky-high orchestrations, Can's idiosyncratic ethno-experiements and the world-jazz fusions of Don Cherry. [Aug 2014, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Across a double album, Clarke's songwriting landscape can start to feel featureless, his big-sky country demanding tighter focus, more interesting rock formations. [Dec 2020, p.88]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thrice Woven stirs in Norse and Gaelic legend into a bewitching barrage of arboreal-metal fury and black-winged flight, somewhere between early Darkthrone and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. [Oct 2017, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hallelujah Anyhow needs a shade more definition to cut through the reassuring vintage fug. [Nov 2017, p.94]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Her tendency to over-infuse them with the weepies neuters what otherwise be gleaming moments. [Sep 2012, p.94]
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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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is much melancholy here, but he sounds comfortable singing songs that carry the weight of experience. [Oct 2013, p.87]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album's substantial rewards lie in the unorthodox rhythms of drummer Matt Tong. [Mar 2007, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Caramel consists of weightless, non-danceable funk, drifting in from the edge of consciousness like a vaporised, enervated Scritti Politti. [Dec 2013, p.89]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The follow-up to 2003's "The Diary Of Alicia Keys" has lots of confidence and volume, but less of the shades in between. [Dec 2007, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As intriguing as it is, it's of course lacking the focus of Neilson's brilliant songwriting and characterful voice, while likely offering him vital creative inspiration for his next record proper. [May 2025, p.91]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This bombastic, cacophonic, but endlessly impressive set would make a fine soundtrack for dancing madly among the wreckage [of capitalism]. [Feb 2009, p.113]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A polished affair, it cannot but fail to eschew their naive early '80s glory. [May 2015, p.100]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The music is charming, if a little simplistic at times. [Aug 2017, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Familiar elements (Nancy Wang's cheerleading vocals, sparse instrumentation colliding, lyrical misanthropy) are present and correct, but everything is bolder and deeper. [June 2010, p. 93]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The blend of lushness and rusticity is beguiling. ... Still, for all its accomplished loveliness, there's also a suggestion that Nash's sense of wonder is a little less wild eyed than it once was. [Sep 2018, p.89]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A lovely album, but not one which lingers. [Jan 2026, p.87]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The animals are well cast as they orbit Magic Town. [Sep 2013, p.91]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The bonus material features a first release for the fabled "Mustique Demos": just Noel, a drum machine and Owen Morris's portastudio in the Caribbean, suggesting a humbler alternative might have been possible, had reality not intruded. [Nov 2016, p.102]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The delivery is folk emo. [Dec 2017, p.92]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This album is partisan, powerful and controversial. [Dec 2017, p.87]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If The Way's latter stages descend into lumpy Who-y rawk, the earlier auditory apparition of Buzzcocks in tuneful excelsis will always be welcome. [Dec 2014, p.89]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Downstate's a more focused listen. [Mar 2025, p.93]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    With smart synths and Young's wry lyricism ensuring a contemporary edge to their retro-leanings, Combat Sports is fizzy fun that won't rot your teeth. [May 2018, p.91]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's no question that it's his most appealing work for ages, but still one wishes that the chilly spark on title track and Hey Little Bruiser could have been sustained throughout. [Mar 2013, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hardcore fans will be sold on the passion, others may struggle. [Jul 2021, p.86]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pale Green Ghosts is both novel and familiar. [Apr 2013, p.86]
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