Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,507 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:
10507 music reviews
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Well before David Essex provides a gruff guest turn on Relocate, you are entirely won over by this record, brimming with music from a postcode synonymous with class. [Jul 2005, p.106]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For every shot that hits the target, however, another flies into the blue. [Sep 2005, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    By putting some warm flesh on her musical bones, Chan Marshall is punching her considerable songwriting weight. [Jan 2006, p.116]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The band's most persuasive album. [Feb 2006, p.92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pretty, but pointless. [Feb 2006, p.95]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More than a curiosity. [Jan 2006, p.131]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His sheer enthusiasm and peerless pop nous are enough to carry things along. [Jan 2006, p.124]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simply played, gently sung, graceful, literate, folk rock. [Apr 2006, p.98]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sheer liquid mayhem. [Dec 2005, p.98]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A tear-stained, yet tasteful, requiem. [Feb 2006, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, the disc highlights a new hole: storytelling. [Feb 2006, p.92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pure gonzo blues-rock boogie. [Mar 2006, p.94]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Innovative it ain't. [Jan 2006, p.132]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are some great moments. [Nov 2006, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their strictly modal, contemplative soundscapes have rarely sounded more compelling. [Mar 2006, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If her murmurous slurring defies full comprehension, her gentle sadness, hesitant beats and melancholic piano settings match the odd clear phrase. [Mar 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At the heart of this overgrown squall of a record, there's a sense that The Strokes feel they have something to prove. If only they'd been able to decide upon what that is with greater clarity. [Feb 2006, p.88]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
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    Patchier than Jacksonville. [Mar 2006, p.92]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reveals a still intense and enthralling grittiness to her performances. [Feb 2006, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They're a group that believes in a thing called love. Happily, however, they don't believe in a thing called restraint. [Dec 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A surprisingly consistent listen, albeit one that's akin to gorging on Christmas cake. [Feb 2006, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A bijou flashback to a place of quiet nirvana. [Feb 2006, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's a beguiling musicality at play that puts pleasing melody at the centre of even the most outre detour. [Dec 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Finds an uncommonly energised Oldham ranging across his capacious back catalogue, his palpable enthusiasm manifesting in unlikely between-song whoops of joy. [Dec 2005, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As each track segues into the next, this is a breathless listen, but the overall scheme works. [Dec 2005, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A worthy snapshot of a band at its peak. [Dec 2005, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Motion Sickness won't convert the uninitiated, but offers subtle craftsmanship and deft musicianship. [Feb 2006, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heady, bodily, beautiful stuff. [Jan 2006, p.126]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Kate Bush is the greatest living British artist in song and this is her masterpiece. [Dec 2005, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's not flawless, though it's damn good, and consistently engrossing. [Feb 2006, p.94]
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