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
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With her flinty guitar growling eloquent melodies and stricken solos, the group rock with a primal sensitivity akin to early Throwing Muses, but it's Powell's voice that's their truly irresistible element. [Nov 2008, p.118]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sounds that Volker Bertelmann creates with(in) a piano is astonishing. [Oct 2008, p.112]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fans of Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs take note. [Nov 2008, p.19]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their full-length follow-up to 2007's "Burning Off Impurities" is a multi-textured out-rock masterpiece. [Jan 2008, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some more like-minded collaborators might raise the temperature. [Feb 2009, p.112]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Part polemic, part paean and featuring contributions from amongst others, Paul McCartney, Imogen Heap and Tina Grace, it makes for an arresting colection that's as valid musically as it is for any mesage it is sending. [Nov 2008, p.12]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He hones in on what he does best, and improves it. [Nov 2008, p.109]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This bunch of Southend art school layabouts, constrastingly, really cut the mustard, kicking up a distinctively murky din. [Oct 2008, p.108]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Folds' leaps from satire to farce to domestic drama are part brilliant, part alarming, yet he still seems to wear wit and the manic energy of his voice as a carapace to conceal his soul. [Dec 2008, p.102]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This Rev record is another triumph in which all is dream and this sometimes symbolism, the overall effect trippy, though less dark than of yore. [Oct 2008, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    This fourth album proper is a stunning return to mind-melting form. [Nov 2008, p.118]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seeger's voice is frail now and he has to rely on an array of accomplished singers to help him deliver his message....Even so, Seeger remains innovative. [Jan 2008, p.100]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    WLIB AM is best taken as a whole. [Nov 2008, p.116]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A hypnotic and original treat, an utterly timeless futurist retro symphony. [Jan 2008, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Well yes, there's that ear-splitting explosion of aural nihilist expressionism, but still it's thrilling and has lost little of the initial impact. [Dec 2008, p.120]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It is mainly a joyous affair, good-timey in a well structured way and often reminiscent of the kind of thing Johnny Rivers used to dispense at the start of the '70s. [Apr 2009, p.101]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hearing Mahal mimic African Blues players is usually fun, but 'Zanzibar' is underwhelming. But when Ben Harper turns his guitar up, things get interesting. [Nov 2008, p.116]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This follow-up to The Aliens' debut "Astronomy For Dogs" keeps the faith. [Oct 2008, p.109]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His whip-smart three-string guitar licks still take centre stage and his banter sizzles with the personality and charm that have won him so many new admirers. [Oct 2008, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Hawk Is Howling finds the Glasgow's guitar army relaxing the taut, economical songcraft of its 2006 predecessor, "Mr. Beast," and setting a new standard for irreverent track titles. [Oct 2008, p.102]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Only By The Night is best viewed as a transitional record from a band who have quite literally done their growing up in public. [Oct 2008, p.98]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Malone excels himself with the brassy pop of 'Lover's Day' and 'Golden Age.' [Oct 2008, p.112]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This second album easily stands on its own merits. [Oct 2008, p.102]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Its facinating music nevertheless and extremely psychedelic, with gospelly backing singers, flutes and guitars reaching the listener through a reverb-heavy haze. [Dec 2008, p.104]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Radio Retaliation is another example of the Corporation's remarkable consistency. [Dec 2008, p.104]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    File under 'brilliantly out-there.' [Oct 2008, p.110]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On the second listen it sounds like a future classic. [Nov 2008, p.109]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Six years on from his last, with a white beard grown, Browne delivers elegantly considered weight and truth. [Nov 2008, p.119]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flawless.
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Laurenz's] supple grooves energise their quixotic synth patterns and intricate guitar-scree, ensuring this wordless yet dramatic debut triangulates the oft-dweebish worlds of electronica, no wave and retro sci-fi with a funky red-blooded brio. [Sep 2008, p.106]
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