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
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The blend of Moulds old and new is highly successful. [Aug 2005, p.100]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mraz is an entertaining smartass. [Feb 2006, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theirs is really a taste worth acquiring. [Sep 2005, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A welcome drop in intensity. [Oct 2005, p.102]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Honeycomb is really closer to the Dylan of New Morning than Blonde On Blonde; an angry young man finally transformed by a new voice and outlook. [Aug 2005, p.95]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Experimental longueurs and lack of vocals mean this trip's not for everyone, but out-rock fans should get on board. [Aug 2005, p.109]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Whereas Eno's purest ambient music has such an organic abstractness the listener stops thinking about what is actually producing the sounds, Lanois favours guitars, which links his music more to established styles. [Jul 2005, p.110]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Too much of it passes by easily, leaving little lasting impression. [Aug 2005, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By focusing on the temporal, he reduces himself to simple protest music rather than timeless folk. [Aug 2005, p.104]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A tendency to indulgence... undermines the album's overall potency. [Aug 2005, p.96]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The heritage soul signposts multiply with almost hallucinatory rapidity. [Aug 2005, p.104]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ounsworth's slurred vocals are a dealbreaker. [Feb 2006, p.92]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The best moments on this double CD are those which foreground Valerie Trebeljahr's sighingly lovely vocals. [Aug 2005, p.120]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Undoubtedly his definitive statement--not just as a guitarist, but as a songwriter and vocalist. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fascinatingly oblique songs are plaed with confidence and laid-back precision, rather than smothered by a desperation to impress. [Mar 2005, p.96]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Posies [are] now a surprisingly politicised act. [Aug 2005, p.104]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tough, yet with just enough tenderness. [Aug 2005, p.101]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Corgan allows a surprisingly vulnerable side to appear. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What's disappointing is how evenly-tempoed and sedate the pace is. [Jun 2005, p.95]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His most lyrically sharp and melodically inspired material in years. [Jul 2005, p.99]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brassbound is a far better played, better written and lyrically grown-up record than its brash, Brit-pop-punk predecessor. [Jul 2005, p.102]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Conjunto, corrido and jazz emerge from and mingle with R&B and pop as the band follow the story from innocent beginnings to the tragic, bitter end. [Jul 2005, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is perhaps Eno's most personal record to date. [Jul 2005, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Disc 1] is grunge-punk-metal boiled down to mere energy -- and calories don't rock. [Jul 2005, p.102]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the third listen, Burner is starting to feel like a great 21st century pop record. [Sep 2005, p.103]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A compelling exercise in craft. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not that much has changed sound-wise. [Jul 2005, p.114]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Finally, Embrace deliver a poignant and prolonged rush of blood to the head. [Oct 2004, p.116]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They lack a style or personality of their own. [Jul 2005, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    X&Y
    X&Y is awash with cliches, non-sequiturs, and cheap existentialism; at times it all becomes nigh on unbearable. [Jul 2005, p.97]
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