Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,496 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:
10496 music reviews
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's a set packed with ideas and enthusiasm. [May 2006, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ramones is pretty much perfect. [Sep 2016, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stimulating, entertaining and moving. You'll listen to it more than you have Anthology, I promise. [Dec 2006, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brace yourself. This album is more clinging than quicksand, it is uncompromising, transcendent voodoo. [Sep 2014, p.92]
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Crafting a sound that incorporates stinky Funkadelic psych with Prince harmonics and Rick James' pimp disco, this is hip hop with the power to convert even the most reactionary nonbelievers. [Jan 2001, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Anthology 4 offers another transporting parallel view into how The Beatles did what they did, from the pre-fame beginnings to the end and after. [Dec 2025, p.12]
    • Mojo
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Not only because of Ellis's extraordinary vocal command and gasp of dynamics but because his songs manage to be both mysteriously personal and yet immediately emotionally resonant. [Feb 2026, p.80]
    • Mojo
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Apart from the comprehensive compilation aspect and the rich live presence, this double CD also pauses to capture the remarkable way he welcomes 20,000 people to his fireside. [May 2009, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Represents an ultramodern rock masterpiece, low-key yet ominous, offering new yet comforting ways of singing familiar tunes. [Jul 2003, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    An album of great emotional depth and uninhibited artistry. [Nov 2007, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Foxes In The Snow – a shoo-in for Isbell’s seventh Grammy – has already set the bar for best Americana album of the year. [Apr 2025, p.84]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Nelson still plays Trigger. .... Willie's technique varies 'twixt hard blues and laid-back swing. This novel approach is a perfect description for both Nelson and Hagard's personal interpretation of how they perform country music. [Jan 2026, p.83]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    McFarlane creates a series of vibrant storytelling soundscapes where her sweetly soulful harmonised vocals intertwine with woozy synth sounds and throbbing electronic rhythms. [Sep 2020, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Revolver presents an accomplished, almost impenetrable sheen - which makes the archaeology provided by the outtakes and different mixes all the more involving. ... You can hear the pace of their lives and their ideas in this perfect encapsulation of The Beatles at their peak. [Dec 2022, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is as perfect as any album can be. [Mar 2022, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The immediately obvious aspect of Magic is there hasn't been such a musically dramatic Springsteen album since "Born In The USA;" and like that album, this is a State of the Union address disguised as a pop record. [Nov 2007, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Joni Mitchell delivers a counter-intuitive, brilliant artistic response. [Oct 2007, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    B-sides included here aren't without their charms but the album's genius clearly lay in distilling only the finest of Mould's new material into a powerful, singular statement. [Jul 2012, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's on hypnotic original compositions such as Excess Success or reworked pieces like La Jetee that Parker's true genius shines through, an ability to create entire new sonic worlds from the tiniest of elements. [Mar 2022, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's an album that at times sounds like it wants to smash your face to pieces, sometimes your heart. It's beautiful, horrible, bleak, spiteful, overwhelmed, overwhelming--a cry of panic ,despair, anxiety in the face of accelerating modernity. .... All three [previously unreleased tracks] are excellent in their way. [Aug 2017, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    His first LP of complete originals is a thing of profound beauty; deep, sad, wise songs, allied to perfectly crafted arrangements, from a man who's lived long enough in darkness to address the big, heavy questions with a lightness of touch. [Aug 2012, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    This is one of his most intense albums. It feels personal too. [Nov 2016, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The vital spark that graced Fleet Foxes' debut is back. [Dec 2020, p.80]
    • Mojo
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Stasium's work put a spotlight beneath these 11 songs, brightening hidden corners until Bastards Of Young, Left Of The Dial and Kiss On The Bus sparkle like unworn jewels. [Nov 2023, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brilliant throughout. better than the official Stage with an art-rocking sound he never quite bettered. ... An essential purchase for Bowie fans. [Aug 2018, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Whether you consider London Calling to be the last great rock album of the '70s or the first great rock album of the '80s, the extent to which it fully merits its cultural and aesthetic status is utterly beyond question. [Oct 2004, p.123]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's a damn good listen, all of it. Generous and revelatory, to borrow Rosanne's words, and at times mind-blowing. [Dec 2019, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Built on Phair's self-taught chording and a melodic sense of rich DIY potency, these compelling narratives blossom into a transfixing (and profane) particularity. [Jun 2018, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brilliantly original. [Aug 2003, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A complete set from Minneapolis's First Avenue in January 1985, powered by the sulphurous char of Bob Mould's guitar and Grant Hart's heart-attack drumming, showcases their alchemical blend of classic pop melodicism and punk velocity, closing with apocalyptic Beatles and Byrds covers. A second disc of stray recordings previews their 1986 Warners debut and burgeoning maturity. [Nov 2025, p.101]
    • Mojo