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
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Wield[s] both a wistful poignancy and raw emotional undertow. [Aug 2006, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Smog's winning streak [is] intact. [Aug 2006, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Chemist eschews masturbatory scratch showcases in favour of artfully constructed, utterly oddball 'songs'. [Aug 2006, p.103]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What this record lacks is a couple of the screamalong anthems at which Muse have become renowned. [Aug 2006, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The trio's shared vocals are a unifying factor, finessing the outre music into gently hypnotic melodies. [Sep 2006, p.94]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An audacious, X-rated treat. [Aug 2006, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This whets the appetitie for whatever Stevens' formidable talent fixes upon next. [Aug 2006, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Eraser is less crabbed, cryptic or violently bitter than Hail To The Thief... and is often more satisfying for that. [Aug 2006, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It finds the band stranded in the middle-of-the-road, spinning its wheels amid a mass of musical cliches and Dave Pirner's overwrought lyricism. [Aug 2006, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A messy, eccentric triumph. [Aug 2006, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The dignity and sharp poetic instincts on American V are all classic Cash. [Aug 2006, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Better still [than 'Stepp Off']. [Sep 2006, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Lacking the wit and lyrical dexterity of a Jill Scott or the raw power of Angie Stone, the songs can feel airless and unengaged. [Sep 2006, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [An] underwhelming collection of moderately sweeping, mildly elegant arena pop. [Jun 2006, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's just enough twisted wit among the non sequiturs to redeem this controversial release. [Oct 2006, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What makes this more than a self-indulgence is the mellow melancholy he brings. [Oct 2006, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Its sound remains as confrontational and as provocative as its content. [Aug 2006, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While it might've been more digestible as a single CD, Black strives for a wide scope that makes the album's elegant songcraft, musical telepathy and poetic unpredictability all the more satisfying. [Aug 2006, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Loose feels less like an album than a clutch of singles plus accompanying extras. [Jul 2006, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their new direction sounds suspiciously like the old one. [Jul 2006, p.100]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might have been captured anytime in the past four decades. [Jul 2006, p.114]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A hazy treat. [Oct 2006, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Highly agreeable in small doses. [Jul 2006, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    You're left with the uncomfortable sensation of having walked in on six serious young men, lost in their own indie-rock majesty. [Jun 2006, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A pretty disappointing work of rock ordinaire. [Jun 2006, p.112]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Last Days Of Wonder is rich in history and nature imagery, yet the couple are equally obsessed with modern life. [Jul 2006, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Sun Awakens isn't wildly different (from its predecessor)--though it introduces tripped-out electric guitars to Chasny's homespun palette. [Jul 2006, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's surely never beena Sonic Youth album so unself-conscious. [Jul 2006, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spektor has lept from black and white into joyous colour. [Aug 2006, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Proves again what an unnerving space the interior of his head must be. [Aug 2006, p.104]
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