Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,505 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 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,859 out of 10505
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10505
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Negative: 34 out of 10505
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It drifts rudderlessly in places, but at its best... it's among Tortoise's most persuasive music to date. [Apr 2004, p.108]- Mojo
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The album is engagingly eclectic, always melodic, sometimes hard and storming, but never quite so sublime [as single "Good Boys"]. [Nov 2004, p.132]- Mojo
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This sounds like a decent Gang Star LP--no bad thing, but it lacks the spark of individuality. [May 2004, p.103]- Mojo
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Moments of simple, exultant joy are plentiful. [Jun 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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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
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A splendid corollary to Mercury Rev's 1998 pastoral masterpiece, Deserter's Songs. [Jan 2005, p.94]- Mojo
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[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
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Pushes the trio's grandiose delusions onto new levels of interpretative-dancing, mirror-cracking excess. [Oct 2003, p.107]- Mojo
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This is an album of winsome alt country charm, like a pleasant cousin of Ryan Adams. [Feb 2004, p.98]- Mojo
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They've carved a bleak and beautiful album; their best, in fact. [May 2004, p.106]- Mojo
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This is one explosive package no hip hop loving home should be without. [Aug 2004, p.92]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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A swaggering, intoxicating tight-but-loose debut. [Jun 2004, p.107]- Mojo
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Beautifully recorded, this is intimate seduction for voice, elegant finger-picked guitar and not much else. [May 2004, p.93]- Mojo
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The Vines are mostly surface and scratch, a vessel of strangely useless beauty. [Apr 2004, p.114]- Mojo
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Fennesz excels when he squeezes something truly sublime and undeniably human through his gritty, labyrinthine microprocessors. [Jun 2004, p.112]- Mojo
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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
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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
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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
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It's perhaps a tad effortful here and there, but it's gloriously impolite. [Apr 2004, p.113]- Mojo
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Slaloms round sing-song pop, day-glo punk and Zappa-style tune transformations. [Jun 2004, p.106]- Mojo
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Edgy, ear-splitting, bonkers, bizarre and, in parts, astounding. [Mar 2004, p.104]- Mojo
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They have an inherent gift for the split-second pause, the cool coda, the scene-stealing lyric. [Feb 2004, p.98]- Mojo