Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,504 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:
10504 music reviews
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For much of the album's remainder, Carthy sticks with the melting pot approach that he and Greater Mancunian peers like Rae & Christian helped codify over a decade ago. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yet more caustic politico cold-funk disco grooves. [May 2019, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although every other verse here is filled by paradiddles, polyrhythms and wilfully complex time signatures, DMB's ear for a tune at least provides us with some fine choruses. [Jul 2009, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times, its lumbering gait palls somewhat, but This World's rousing yacht rock twinkle proves that Kalevi has some aces hidden up his sleeve. [Nov 2018, p.91]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Amazing Snakeheads have delivered an album bristling with unapologetic rock'n'roll invective. [Jun 2014, p.91]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When the album's latter half descends into cluttered abstraction, Delicate Steve measures up as disappointingly slight. [Mar 2017, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The sentiments charm and Cuomo's nose for a tune endures, but the drive-time metal supremacy of Def Leppard and Mutt Lange is never under serious threat. [Jun 2021, p.84]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The perfect album for cool, sequestered evenings in scary cities. [Sep 2001, p.102]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As Mayaer talks himself in circles you hear an artist facing massive success, and retreating from it. [Dec 2003, p.112]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    'Mother May I?' and AdRock's 'Oooh Girl' are the most engaging and enetertaining of a solid selection. [Oct 2007, p.106]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Repo is a brightly coloured series of aural non sequiturs, its lard-legged beat science peaking with distorted synth-funk jam 'Ultra Vomit Craze.' [May 2009, p.109]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What Did You Expect is a breathlessly exciting debut, it's giddy raunch'n'revisionism hard to resist. [Apr 2011, p.100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bright, snappy and instantly infectious hooks. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Watsons' approach is softer, and more affecting, than wry, tack-sharp Lewis. [Aug 2008, p.114]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A blistering, breathless set of dynamic, high-impact punk rock aiming straight for the heart and jugular. [Feb 2015, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    100% Publishing is brimming with energy and ideas. [Aug. 2011, p. 100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The whole album is characterised by a subtle, all-pervading sense of menace that superbly offsets Campbell's snow-pure vocals and sparsely psychedelic orchestration. [Dec 2006, p.104]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's hard to love anyone as self-absorbed as Wainwright, but it's impossible not to admire his ability to craft enduringly engaging music. [Nov 2008, p.112]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is a good album, but there's a pull between the commercial and the more left-field. [Dec 2008, p.104]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clever and cool, Season High is a career high. [Jun 2017, p.90]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heavy with atmosphere, Dream House doesn't disappoint, corralling their genius for cerebral house chicanery, subtle techno and motorik rhythms. [Jul 2018, p.95]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An engaging genre exercise. [Dec 2003, p.112]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Third, and finest, brew of Seattle trio's fever-folk moonshine. [March 2011, p. 99]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It reaffirms Kano's position as a consummate grime all-rounder. [Apr 2016, p.86]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Monsters Exist feels like a stadium rave washing machine, stuck on infinite cycle. [Oct 2018, p.88]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's audacious, experimental and, unsurprisingly, resists literal interpretation. [Jul 2016, p.94]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Whip-smart and wonderful. [Jul 2022, p.89]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Its choice of selections successfully reinvent the familiar and/or introduce the less well-known. [Jul 2009, p.104]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a pity that the set plays out with a hat trick of dreadlock holiday stinkers. [Apr 2011, p.98]
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