Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,507 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
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Positive: 6,861 out of 10507
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10507
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Negative: 34 out of 10507
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Display[s] a lurid intelligence that seeks to explore an alternate American history. [Oct 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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Material which says something, but feels nothing real. [Nov 2004, p.95]- Mojo
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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
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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
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If the likes of 154-era Wire, early Cure and New Order appeal, this is for you. [Oct 2004, p.101]- Mojo
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Starts promisingly soulful, but soon descends into faux gangster bullshit and lazy, dumb-ass sexism. [Feb 2005, p.100]- Mojo
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It's too taxing for the less intense of the band's admirers. [Nov 2004, p.127]- Mojo
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They've surpassed most of their contemporaries to climb right to the top of the chill-out tree. [Sep 2004, p.104]- Mojo
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Few bands can make desperation sound so all embracing and enticing. [Jun 2004, p.111]- Mojo
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It's the feeling of almost imperceptible menace that makes Bubblegum so unsettling. [Aug 2004, p.84]- Mojo
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The results are strangely disorientating and at times Carr's brittle, acoustic sketches are smothered by skull-jarring percussion. [Sep 2004, p.92]- Mojo
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Electric piano and pedal steel-caressed intimacy rules the day, keeping attendant preciousness almost, if not completely, at bay. [Aug 2004, p.99]- Mojo
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An open, emotionally congruent record that never tries to be clever and yet rarely seems dull. [Apr 2004, p.99]- Mojo
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This time [COF] have tempered their voluminous superfuzz with scenic bliss. [Oct 2004, p.101]- Mojo
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Kiss & Tell, although superbly polished and instrumentally powerful, suffers from a claustrophobic sheen. [Aug 2004, p.99]- Mojo
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lang's expansive delivery makes the album sound overblown in a few places. [Oct 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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Spread over a whole CD, there is some worryingly featureless stuff. [Apr 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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(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
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The surface mayhem actually masks an admirable craft. [Aug 2004, p.96]- Mojo
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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
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If it weren't all so damn happy this would be the most terrifying music in existence. [Aug 2004, p.98]- Mojo
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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
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Sounding like lost transmissions from classic '70s AM radio, it's Stringfellow's best yet. [Dec 2004, p.116]- Mojo
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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
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Tightly packed with Eight Days A Week-style harmonies and immaculate, 12-string strumming. [Oct 2004, p.100]- Mojo