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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's definitely in the family tradition. [Oct 2006, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The music... still has the from-odd-angles of Smog records, but now there's exquisite light amid the shade. [Jun 2007, p.114]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although the album is marred by its over-consistent tone, almost any one of these songs taken in isolation--played of the closing credits of The Sopranos, say--would rightfully be hailed as a lost classic. [May 2007, p.118]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is unmistakeably the Arctics, only stronger, harder, sharper, faster.... An extraordinary and fulfilling sequel to their debut. [May 2007, p.100]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Full of regret, hard-won wisdom and DIY pop artistry, No Need To Be Downhearted transcends bog-standard indie to build a world of sophisticated melody and ingenious arrangements. [May 2007, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that can only add to her legend. [May 2007, p.112]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Best of all is Sleep Together: like Radiohead playing Kashmir, and brilliantly led by former Japan keyboard player Richard Barbieri. Yes, prog lives--and Porcupine Tree are its leading players. [July 2007]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a sense of going too far, of antic hilarity tipping into something more revealing. [Apr 2007, p.104]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cassadaga is an album to warm souls, rally minds and break hearts in equal measure. [May 2007, p.110]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    The sound might be spacier and more panoramic, but there's still some grit in the mix. [May 2007, p.110]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seduces with a mixture of whimsical beauty and compelling mystery. [Jun 2007, p.101]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their music has a heavier gait, like a cross between a crazed Triffids and a stroppier Bad Seeds. [Oct 2006, p.102]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He sounds fresher than in years. [Dec 2006, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Because Of The Times burns with all the invention and ambition that seemed to have been sucked out of its predecessor. [May 2007, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's conceived, written and designed for the loud appreciation of sweat-drenched pill-poppers at a 'nitespot' nowhere near you. And as such, it succeeds in magnificently silly style. [Feb 2007, p.100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An energised splicing of riff, declamation and technology that sounds like a thrilling synthesis of 2003's The Real New Fall LP and 2005's Fall Heads Roll, delivered with the highest levels of vigour for some time. [Feb 2007, p.92]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album full of jukebox hits. [Mar 2007, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangelet's not so much odd as unusually good. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This remains at its essence an album of beguiling, rain-splashed intimacy. [May 2007, p.106]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The influences here are smart, the music smarter. [Feb 2007, p.100]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    His lyrics don't always match his ambition. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A little too relaxed for its own good. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A fantastic consolidation of everything good about LCD. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A winner. [May 2007, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record that sounds like absolutely no one else on the planet. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A big-tableau statement that combines his musical and ideological passions. [May 2007, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall, the album might not surpass his masterpiece The Mysterious Production Of Eggs, but Armchair Apocrypha proves Bird's knack for the musical hat-trick. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    El-P's portentous delivery lacks poetics. [May 2007, p.110]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The ballads bewitch, reminding us that Tracey is one of the unique British voices, up there with Dusty. [Apr 2007, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Introducing] contains her best songs and most relaxed, assured performances. [May 2007, p.112]
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