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
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hard to avoid thinking of Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the peak of their '70s powers. [Feb 2005, p.95]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's business as usual. [Mar 2005, p.106]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tends to drift in one and out the other at times. [Jan 2005, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a very traditional U2 album, the sort of album people want U2 to make. [Dec 2004, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not the Holy Grail that was promised... But considering what material is present, the set plays like a fairly compelling musical narrative. [Dec 2004, p.120]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The lyrics veer towards simplistic, but Destiny pull it off, mainly through muscular production and stunning vocal interplay. [Jan 2005, p.97]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hilarious, stoned hip hop drooling with ideas. [Feb 2005, p.100]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A little too much. [Apr 2005, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An awkward faceoff between Mathers the prankster and Mathers the cultural and would-be political agitator. [Jan 2005, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tread lightly past the handclaps and keyboard quacks to find a collection of uncomfortably honest damaged-goods love songs set in the cold hours of the a.m. [Dec 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    More attention seems to have been paid to assembling the cast than finding something for them to record. [Dec 2004, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of Americana's most exquisite singers. [Dec 2004, p.114]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    She seems to have a sound that needs more sophisticated compositions. [Nov 2004, p.95]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Joji draws dark arterial blood from backwoods bedrock, mining a country mile adjacent to My Morning Jacket's. [Jan 2005, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    One of the most bizarre covers albums ever. [Dec 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That [Psapp] completely circumvent high blood sugar whimsy is testament to the duo's songwriting ingenuity and Durant's silken vocal cords. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that nails its subtle-but-tenacious hooks with dignity and maturity. [Nov 2004, p.94]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lyrically it's one of Cohen's least ambiguous albums... Musically it's melodic and memorable. [Nov 2004, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is more than a nostalgia trip. [Apr 2005, p.102]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bowel-rattling rhythmic rock that's as viscerally exciting as it is grubby. [Feb 2005, p.101]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The scope and breadth is startling. [Oct 2004, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At points UNKLE verge on Moby car advert territory, but judicious sampling and that deadpan sci-fi spirit keep the album the right side of experimental. [Sep 2003, p.113]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another uniquely alluring Luna landing. [Nov 2004, p.110]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've come within a hairclip's breadth of producing the rock'n'roll riot they always promised. [Dec 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Quality control slumps toward the end, but when they're good the're grrreat. [Nov 2004, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The sound of Beans returning to the hip hop that hatched him, remaking it in his image. [Dec 2004, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Does little to extended their reputation beyond that of a band big on amp buckling bluster and low on pop harmonies. [Oct 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As ever, his chord changes and arrangements betray an inventiveness seemingly borne of brilliant instinct. [Nov 2004, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The root of the malaise most surely [lies] in the protracted production, which appears to have sucked the life out of whatever good material there was. [Nov 2004, p.110]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Picks up where 2002's Impasse left off, with Buckner at large in a dusty, wide-screen landscape of brushed guitars, weeping pedal steel and decorous strings. [Dec 2004, p.114]
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