Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,505 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:
10505 music reviews
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This time, the division between uninspired, joyless Gang Starr pastiches like Don't Say Nuthin and the polymorphous likes of Stay Cool or Outro has never sounded so glaringly obvious. [Aug 2004, p.92]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not as immediate as the previous two albums, this one takes time before its effortless flow, interweaving harmonies and low-key chords really sink in. [Aug 2004, p.102]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Such earnestness makes for a terrifically hard slog. [Aug 2004, p.93]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The recorded-live-by-candlelight performances documented herein aren't short on the kind of clamorous foreboding and twisted pop nous a fan of Disintegration or The Head On The Door might hope for. [Aug 2004, p.87]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though the detail in these blurred vignettes sometimes upstages the foreground, the moments of magic make the odd longueur worth enduring. [Sep 2004, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's nothing here that elevates the Goodies above the level of the ordinary. [Aug 2004, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Wide, sprawling, often anxious canvases that deliver the same rebel-hearted romanticism, promises of social insurrection, and weary stream-of-consciousness confessionals he's been turning out for years. [Aug 2004, p.89]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Stirring but sombre stuff. [Aug 2004, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Drifts somewhere between Mogwai's softest moments and Her Space Holiday's wry prettiness. [Aug 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    He puts down the rumour-mongers with an acid tongue. [Nov 2004, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Isn't an easy listen but those with an adventurous ear will be well rewarded. [Aug 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Richman gets more reflective with age. [Aug 2004, p.86]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    It's as good as anything in this group's monstrous catalogue. [Dec 2003, p.120]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sonic Nurse is not... a classic rock record. And it's not a classic Sonic Youth record. It's an excursion, into corners weird and corners familiar. [Jun 2004, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Farrar has rarely sounded so stirring on record. [Aug 2004, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A big wet dream of loss and isolation, sex and the search for grace. [May 2004, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is the band at their melodious best. [Jun 2004, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At times, it's almost too tasteful a refinement of her work.... Yet there are some fabulous moments from both sides of Harvey's brain. [Jun 2004, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautifully skewed gospel-folk songs. [Aug 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Quietly turn[s] into a rather good record as it goes along. [Jun 2004, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A perpetual guilty pleasure. [Jun 2004, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Repeated plays reveal a frustrating lack of memorable songs. [Nov 2004, p.102]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A welcome departure. [Jun 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cruel, sexy and offhand by turns. [Jun 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Suffers from a paucity of premium standalone songs.... way too relentlessly generic. [Mar 2004, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Melds way-out weird with a pop welcome that sounds like no one else around right now. [May 2004, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's not as spiky or sleazy as 2001's superlative Kittenz And Thee Glitz... but this is shiny, addictive pop that's never lost for a good tune. [Jun 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Somewhere Only We Know is one of 2004's loveliest tunes, and while nothing else on their debut album quite matches this apogee of woebegone non-energy, there's plenty to keep the eyes welling up. [Jun 2004, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deep, mournful, impressive. [Apr 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tired and contrived-sounding.... Baptism? Craptism, more like. [Jun 2004, p.102]
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