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
    • 100 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Whether you consider London Calling to be the last great rock album of the '70s or the first great rock album of the '80s, the extent to which it fully merits its cultural and aesthetic status is utterly beyond question. [Oct 2004, p.123]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nino Rojo is no mere best-of-the-rest affair, but a sibling piece of equal intimacy and inspiration. [Oct 2004, p.102]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Has lingering '80s elements, with some pompous lyrics, laborious arrangements and long, drawn-out vowel sounds, yet it is also fresher and less strenuous than before. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A noble addition to the Giant Sand canon. [Sep 2004, p.96]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's some startling songwriting on Let's Bottle Bohemia. [Oct 2004, p.104]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A covers album supreme. [Dec 2004, p.114]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lacks the hooks and memorable vocals... that formerly made this band so effective at marrying the pop and the underground. [Sep 2004, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    What Dizzee Rascal has done with this record is find his own - profoundly satisfying - balance between grime's digital vortex of ringtones and car alarms and an older more contemplative electronic tradition. [Oct 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their candour is as refreshing as it is revealing. [May 2005, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's little attempt to get under the skin of these songs, or really bend them into new shapes. [Oct 2004, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All the components that make the Arcade Fire such a gripping live proposition remain intact on this full-length debut. [Apr 2005, p.96]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is well-muscled, heavily mascara'd dance music. [Sep 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    That voice remains intact, warm, ever communicative, ahead of the game. [Oct 2004, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Heyes has polished the band into tedium, with live guitars and drums drowned out by high sheen studio gloss and painfully dated loops. [Sep 2004, p.104]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is some coming-of-age classic. [Sep 2004, p.96]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    As complex, compelling, and at times unsettling a record as Cale has unleashed since 1982's Music For A New Society. [Oct 2003, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Marks a major leap along the road to recovery. [Nov 2004, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The duo-only, no bass required songs don't lack for sonic depth. [Sep 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    An extraordinary record... It's not, nor is it intended to be, easy listening. [Sep 2004, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Tender, wise, compassionate and magnanimous, it's a special, special record for anyone who has ever hurt. [Dec 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not only the bravest record she's ever made, it's also one of the strangest and most uncompromising by a major artist to get a commercial release. [Sep 2004, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A charming glide of warm fuzz-pop that suffers only through their influences being worn perhaps too clearly upon their sleeves. [Oct 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A seamless, melodic blend of psychedelia and C&W... the songs and instrumentals here hang together beautifully. [Nov 2004, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    They're a bit like '80s vintage Judas Priest but not quite as good. Or indeed as gay. [Sep 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ratchets up the accessibility quotient considerably. [Nov 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's hardly a career-defining collection. [Sep 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They sound a bit tired. [Sep 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These may be other people's words, but Dulli well knows the vocabulary. [Nov 2004, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    On Everyone Is Here, you'll find some of the most haunting music to bear the Finn imprint. [Sep 2004, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a fine album, mixing lean rock anthems... with the kind of ballads lesser artists would need years to write. [Oct 2004, p.116]
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