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
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Arthur's delicious art is a potent, concentrated thing. [Oct 2004, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gibb's voice--not to mention his lyrical outlook--is endearingly astringent. [Aug 2004, p.98]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For scholarly inclined fans, the 1987 demo is a fascinating document. [Nov 2004, p.110]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Few other bands could provide properly sympathetic backing for a singer who delivers his roiling emotions in such sad, sleepy tones. [Oct 2004, p.112]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A grimier, more uncomfortable listen. [Nov 2004, p.100]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fails on multiple fronts. [Dec 2004, p.116]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [Pinback's] blend of warm and wistful is almost impossible to resist. [Jan 2005, p.104]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A drizzly doomsday masterpiece. [Nov 2004, p.108]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He sings with committed restraint and plays outspoken guitar. [Feb 2005, p.95]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These stark, sweet confessionals easily rank among the best of his career. [Nov 2004, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While there's some inspired moments, much should've been discarded on son Woody's bedroom floor. [Oct 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The first out-and-out dull R.E.M. album. [Oct 2004, p.97]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A collision of Dylanesque surrealism and Bert Janschian finger-picking. [Nov 2004, p.114]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His first, full-tilt protest record... he comes out swinging, in every respect. [Oct 2004, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Big issues... are chewed over with bittersweet humour and musical sophistication. [Nov 2004, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Profoundly disappointing. [Jan 2005, p.105]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The perkiness and quirkiness are paper-thin. [Dec 2004, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A masterpiece of controlled electronic violence. [Nov 2004, p.102]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    She can carry a tune, sure, but as far as expressing emotion goes, she's relentlessly, huskily one-note. [Oct 2004, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As overdriven and mutated a noise as ever they've managed, Damage also retains Blues Explosion's trademark sweat-drenched feel for soul. [Oct 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Like a cookie full of arsenic, Universal Audio's indie sweetness conceals a dark, deathly heart. [Nov 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As for her voice, that's still a remarkably sassy tool. [Nov 2004, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Revives the windswept drama of Porcupine-vintage Echo & The Bunnymen. [Dec 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Annoyingly, [the] high marks are all too infrequent. [Oct 2004, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is genius in here... [but] Shangri-La does sometimes drift into lazily delivered Knopfler history lessons. [Nov 2004, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 97 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    There is a remarkable consistency about Smile's complex tapestry of delights. [Oct 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It is Kweli's diligently intelligent worldview, dextrous wordplay and often breathtaking flow that enrapture. [Jan 2005, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tender dream-pop which is simulataneously familiar and novel. [Aug 2004, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Songs terrific, band sensational, and -- big plus -- Costello's voice late-developing way beyond that pinched whine into an instrument of substance and character. [Oct 2004, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rock'n'roll band in the 21st century. [Oct 2004, p.106]
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