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
    • 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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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Martian mix of space-age sax, sky-high doo wop, seance-strange electronics and the rich, soulful vocals of [Adebimpe]. [Jun 2004, p.116]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The songs are a mite pretentious. [Sep 2004, p.99]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs feel like they're boiling over, there's so much heat under them. [Mar 2004, p.95]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While this delicately wistful set is hardly a great leap forward for Zero 7, one thing is certain: you'll be hearing it everywhere this year. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This concise yet rewarding selection... allies Beans' oft-celebrated intellectual rigour to commendably rock-solid beats. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A masterpiece. [May 2004, p.103]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Coopers are adept with lyrics, big on attitude, but often lack that X-factor. [Nov 2003, p.131]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not quite magic but an impressive attempt at experimental spell-weaving. [Mar 2004, p.101]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lamb offer the perfect antidote to all manner of vapid pop-cultural vomitus without sounding pretentious or preachy. [Dec 2003, p.118]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A fabulous, strangely soothing listen. [Feb 2004, p.100]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There's much to digest here but absolutely no filler--each song is a priceless gem. [Jan 2004, p.110]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A work of uncommon beauty and torment. [Mar 2004, p.95]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Chopper blades and police sirens pepper the album; indeed, shorn of this angsty hum, the by turns pastoral and metallic instrumental tracks pale. [Apr 2004, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While their material lacks the instant hooks of attention-snaring contemporaries like The Handsome Family, [it] rings with a robust authenticity. [Jul 2003, p.112]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    For all its country rockin' appeal, Monsoon lacks the emotional charge of its predecessor. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A disorienting work somewhere between Scott Walker, Joy Division and Matmos. [May 2004, p.105]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Old skool studio wizardry abounds. [Mar 2004, p.107]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Better records lie in their future, doubtless, but this is a very promising, very charming glimmer. [May 2004, p.104]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [These albums] are as much of a pendulum swing from Is A Woman as Is A Woman was from Nixon. [combined review of both discs; Feb 2004, p.90]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Many of the songs... are short, some feeling cut off in their prime, others a little undeveloped. [combined review of both discs; Feb 2004, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Should please any Stone Roses fan. [Mar 2004, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Evern more so than on Silence Is Sexy... a few telling elements are deployed to dramatic effect here. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art. [Mar 2004, p.92]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This has wit in spades, an irrepressible love of language and genuine originality. [Oct 2004, p.110]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This isn't a great departure from The Coral but mainman James Skelly's increasingly witty words and ear for a killer jig put this in a loveable place of its own. [Aug 2003, p.95]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Most of which 'works', all of which comes thick with a sense of joy and love for the denim and leather. [Mar 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If anywhere, this stuff belongs in interviews, not in songs. [Mar 2004, p.94]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is manna for hip hop fans starved of basic but ballistic beats-and-breaks fare in an increasingly litigious age. [May 2004, p.102]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Explores Incubus' inner jam band. [Feb 2004, p.94]
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