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
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Z
    With Z, My Morning Jacket have left their comfort zone, assumed the mantle of firebrands, and delivered a truly momentous work. [Oct 2005, p.96]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Determinedly singing in her own accent was a wise move. [Oct 2005, p.110]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proves Mark E. Smith's gang have lost nothing of the power to surprise. [Nov 2005, p.104]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Finds [Wolf] firmly ensconced within a four-piece-band format, but still coming up with the lyrical goods on a regular basis. [Dec 2005, p.102]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These gentle, melodic, acoustic guitar-driven songs are outweighed by electronica of the retro-modern variety. [Nov 2005, p.110]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fans of relentless riffing may be sated, anyone else will be left feeling a little awkward. [Dec 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By turns, it's both sublime and downright ridiculous. [Oct 2005, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's an undeniable feeling of bile over content. [Nov 2005, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Frustratingly, Adams' insistence on releasing his every whim means that for each wonderful My Heart Is Broken or Pa, there's a rather ordinary The Hardest Part, dreary Silver Bullets or simply stinking Dear John. [Oct 2005, p.112]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mercifully, the venerable Big Star franchise emerges pretty much unsullied. [Oct 2005, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Almost every track plays nice sweet-and-sour tricks on the ears. But maximum, piercingly intelligent, heartfelt Crow comes through only in Sending A Letter To God. [Oct 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Both spectacularly riotous and deliciously bittersweet. [Nov 2005, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The songs are so wordy, the album so one-paced that it soon begins to sag. [Dec 2005, p.105]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Martey is a definite improvement. [Jun 2005, p.106]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a fine record, a real grower, but it also sees a group comfortably adrift. [Sep 2005, p.89]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Engaging, inventive and emotionally charged. [Nov 2005, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seems largely unable to go far beyond generic musical stylings and rather lifeless, matt[e]-finish reportage. [Nov 2005, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Calla aren't only as unique as NYC new wave gets... but beautifully tense too. [Feb 2006, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stick on the nine minutes of opener Lufuala Ndonga, turn the bottom end up and stand back. What happens next is unbelievable. [May 2005, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While Kenny still sounds like he's mumbling mantras to himself, the band's soft-focus allure remains undiminished. [Oct 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their best by a country mile. [Oct 2005, p.118]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Has much to recommend it. [Oct 2005, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By track two... he has slipped back into the familiarity of sinuous guitar lines, fidgety beats and the cheesy language of international disco. [Jul 2005, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A mature work from a fascinating man. [Oct 2005, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brakes give the likeable impression of being a jokey jamming session at a party that got out of hand. [Aug 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Given her almost unremittingly bleak subject matter, it helps enormously that she's blessed with a unique voice. [Oct 2005, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    CocoRosie sound, blissfully, like no one else. [Sep 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Any ad creatives hoping for mobile phone campaign music will be disappointed. [Oct 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those who thought White Ladder would stand as Gray's crowning achievement may now have to think again. [Oct 2005, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The combination... works just fine. [Oct 2005, p.114]
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