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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A scrapbook of tuneful, scattershot fragments. [Mar 2004, p.97]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It drifts rudderlessly in places, but at its best... it's among Tortoise's most persuasive music to date. [Apr 2004, p.108]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album is engagingly eclectic, always melodic, sometimes hard and storming, but never quite so sublime [as single "Good Boys"]. [Nov 2004, p.132]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This sounds like a decent Gang Star LP--no bad thing, but it lacks the spark of individuality. [May 2004, p.103]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moments of simple, exultant joy are plentiful. [Jun 2004, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is a pleasure to report that nothing has changed. [Jun 2004, p.108]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The best songs... sound as if singer Gary Lightbody spends a lot of time sitting in the dark pretending to be Lou Barlow. [Sep 2003, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A splendid corollary to Mercury Rev's 1998 pastoral masterpiece, Deserter's Songs. [Jan 2005, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Aerosmith's] affection for and facility with the material in hand [is] as plain as the nose on Gerard Depardieu's face. [May 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Innovative? No. Impeccable? Yes. [Apr 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pushes the trio's grandiose delusions onto new levels of interpretative-dancing, mirror-cracking excess. [Oct 2003, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is an album of winsome alt country charm, like a pleasant cousin of Ryan Adams. [Feb 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've carved a bleak and beautiful album; their best, in fact. [May 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is one explosive package no hip hop loving home should be without. [Aug 2004, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It can't shake off the usual curse of live albums: an underlying sense, in the context of Reed's studio catalogue, of inescapable superfluity. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is an enthusiastic hymn to the terminally uncool. [May 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A swaggering, intoxicating tight-but-loose debut. [Jun 2004, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Beautifully recorded, this is intimate seduction for voice, elegant finger-picked guitar and not much else. [May 2004, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A debut of undeniable quality. [Oct 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Vines are mostly surface and scratch, a vessel of strangely useless beauty. [Apr 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The wily creativity on display here is astonishing. [Jun 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fennesz excels when he squeezes something truly sublime and undeniably human through his gritty, labyrinthine microprocessors. [Jun 2004, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ten
    The flow is smoother, and the whole thing has a more compressed, accessible feel, without compromising the essential psychedelic madness at its heart. [Apr 2004, p.113]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lean arrangements, never predictable melodic ticks and some of Byrne's most deliciously quirky lyrics ensure an event-packed listen. [Apr 2004, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    So sweet is the harmonic construction that awareness of the ecclesiastical niceties of such as The Transfiguration... is incidental to falling under the divine spell. [May 2004, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's perhaps a tad effortful here and there, but it's gloriously impolite. [Apr 2004, p.113]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slaloms round sing-song pop, day-glo punk and Zappa-style tune transformations. [Jun 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Edgy, ear-splitting, bonkers, bizarre and, in parts, astounding. [Mar 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dusky, angsty synth-pop. [Apr 2004, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They have an inherent gift for the split-second pause, the cool coda, the scene-stealing lyric. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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