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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brings a little focus--and some memorable tunes--to the proceedings, though Wolf's muse remains doggedly eclectic. [May 2005, p.108]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green sounds in his element. [Apr 2005, p.100]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reveals another eclectic, kaleidoscopic world. [May 2005, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    [An] almost equal measure of intriguing and tiresome music. [Jun 2005, p.108]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is their best album in 65 years. [May 2005, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Retains the gum-tingling pop harmonies and guitar-throttling riffs of previous albums, but their reedy punk sinew has swollen into rock muscle. [Jun 2004, p.112]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Takes the most accessible aspects of the house-soaked, pre-Britpop scene and crafts a swaggering debut that places songwriting suss firmly above pointless posturing. [Oct 2004, p.97]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An agreeably bittersweet album. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her textured roar means even the less melodic songs have traction. [May 2005, p.103]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its claustrophobia is total, unique, spellbinding. [Mar 2005, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a little hard to take in one sitting, though downcast fans of Saint Etienne and The Magnetic Fields will find much to adore. [Sep 2005, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sadly, the songs are less noticeable than the urge to strangle the drummer. [Mar 2005, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Listen to Frances The Mute without any prog-induced prejudice... and it emerges as the triumphant sound of a band bound only by their imagination. [Apr 2005, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It finds the group's estimable strengths consolidated as never before. [Jun 2005, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A rare feat: gentle and kind without becoming soppy or daft. [May 2005, p.109]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    For all the band's rich resonance, she shines brightest when [producer Colin] Cripps holds the kilowatts. [May 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A preposterous, highly-entertaining return. [Apr 2005, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    I know which post-millennial album I'll add to the Atlantic, Bell and gospel classics. [Apr 2005, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are a few weak links... but there's a melodic buoyancy here. [Mar 2005, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's a freshness uncommon to fortysomething men two decades into their career. [Oct 2004, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An unexpectedly weird bolt from the blue, an ultimately outstanding crack at brokering an accord between spiky noo wave and fuzzy '70s stoner rock. [Nov 2004, p.116]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A rarefied exemplar of genteel bliss. [May 2005, p.108]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She keeps the mood focused and the music softly funky. [Mar 2005, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transistor Radio's songs do lack the shirtfront-clenching grip of Ward's Transfiguration of Vincent set. But shapeless and misty atmospherics have their shadowy power too. [Mar 2005, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] queasy mix of super-sharp realism, clammy surrealism and elegant melody. [Feb 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Barzelay's eye for quirky detail and ear for delicious melody keeps a nice balance to things. [Jun 2005, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A veritable treasure trove of electro-bubblegum, irresistible punk-funk, and hypnotic noise experiments. [Mar 2005, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a soundtrack for rainswept, sodium-lit backstreets. [Feb 2005, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It intrigues more than satisfies. [Apr 2005, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a few tracks too long, but it's easy to get lost in its smoked-out haze. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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