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
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Display[s] a lurid intelligence that seeks to explore an alternate American history. [Oct 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Material which says something, but feels nothing real. [Nov 2004, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This [album] finds her with a steelier determination in her country soul and an inclination to rock out that she's only previously hinted at. [Nov 2004, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a wit, charisma and individuality at play that lends teeth to Rilo Kiley's tasteful alt country/indie-rock sound. [Mar 2005, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If the likes of 154-era Wire, early Cure and New Order appeal, this is for you. [Oct 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Starts promisingly soulful, but soon descends into faux gangster bullshit and lazy, dumb-ass sexism. [Feb 2005, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's too taxing for the less intense of the band's admirers. [Nov 2004, p.127]
    • Mojo
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They've surpassed most of their contemporaries to climb right to the top of the chill-out tree. [Sep 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Few bands can make desperation sound so all embracing and enticing. [Jun 2004, p.111]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the feeling of almost imperceptible menace that makes Bubblegum so unsettling. [Aug 2004, p.84]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gem. [Nov 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The results are strangely disorientating and at times Carr's brittle, acoustic sketches are smothered by skull-jarring percussion. [Sep 2004, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An ambient set of quite stunning beauty. [Sep 2004, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Electric piano and pedal steel-caressed intimacy rules the day, keeping attendant preciousness almost, if not completely, at bay. [Aug 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An open, emotionally congruent record that never tries to be clever and yet rarely seems dull. [Apr 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This time [COF] have tempered their voluminous superfuzz with scenic bliss. [Oct 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kiss & Tell, although superbly polished and instrumentally powerful, suffers from a claustrophobic sheen. [Aug 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    lang's expansive delivery makes the album sound overblown in a few places. [Oct 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Spread over a whole CD, there is some worryingly featureless stuff. [Apr 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    (I)NC's pop-punky take on early Deep Purple-ish blues-rock is elegantly streamlined by Rubin's lucid production. [Sep 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fathomlessly beautiful. [Aug 2004, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A razor sharp updating of previous themes. [Aug 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The third choice record from McIntyre in as many years. [Aug 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The surface mayhem actually masks an admirable craft. [Aug 2004, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If you can stick with its synthetic marionette oompah band designs, become immersed in its whirlwind momentum and flint-eyed wit, the chances are you'll fall in love with the album's deep miined reservoirs of charm and sheer eagerness to impress. [Sep 2004, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If it weren't all so damn happy this would be the most terrifying music in existence. [Aug 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While they're hardly cutting-edge these days, The Orb's gently pleasing grooves... still work as aural enhancers for the cannabinoidally-incliined. [Jun 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sounding like lost transmissions from classic '70s AM radio, it's Stringfellow's best yet. [Dec 2004, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nothing on The Spine drills into your cerebral cortex and demands to be whistled on public transport like earlier hits, but the tunes are agreeable enough. [Aug 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tightly packed with Eight Days A Week-style harmonies and immaculate, 12-string strumming. [Oct 2004, p.100]
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