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
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An arresting cocktail of post-punk angularity and instinctive pop savy. [Feb 2004, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Darnielle is a lyrical genius, for sure, but... you're left wishing for a song, just one song, that doesn't sound like a man strumming or plucking that damned folky guitar. [Mar 2004, p.96]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bows & Arrows might seem like the ideal rock'n'roll yuletide soundtrack--and it is, but only for those who spend their Christmases in dive bars with nothing but a gold-hearted hooker, bottomless highball glass and volume of Bukowski poetry for company. [May 2004, p.100]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Modern without being self-conscious, metal without being stupid. [Mar 2004, p.106]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Has a strangely nostalgic feel. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A better advert for time-share life it's hard to imagine. [Feb 2004, p.102]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The lyrics have become downright soppy and the melodies turned trite. [Feb 2004, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite a blip of vital signs, this 4-CD sprawl does The Cure's reputation no real favours. [Feb 2004, p.106]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Elbow... have let new-found bliss propel them to yet loftier heights. [Sep 2003, p.106]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Another like this and they should consider naming themselves after a different Tim Buckley album--Look At The Fool, for instance. [Oct 2003, p.107]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    No great surprises, then, but as aurally seductive as ever. [Mar 2004, p.101]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A varied, febrile affair more often than not in pursuit of the lunatic. [Feb 2004, p.93]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This time there's noticeably less fuzz and extraneous squall piled on top. [Feb 2004, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Unessential, yes, but hardly uninteresting. [Feb 2004, p.101]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Makes you smile without even really listening because the whole sound is such a cheering mix of grunt and grin. [May 2004, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Keeps an unsteady path between fine altered-state atmospherica and irritating cosmic twittering. [Feb 2004, p.100]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Epic, exhilarating, extraordinary. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Molina's darkest, most achingly desolate work so far. [Apr 2004, p.102]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Brilliantly original. [Aug 2003, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Legion of Boom is more like the soundtrack to a horror movie than a night of DJ breaks and body shakes. [Feb 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The whole affair comes off like a desperate bit of trend trawling. [Feb 2004, p.99]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    No self-indulgence, no grandstanding, just excellent. [Mar 2004, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her voice is as irresistible as her songs. [Feb 2004, p.103]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, Splinter's sound is powerful and dense, with The Offspring weaving and surging within it like the experts they've become. [Dec 2003, p.109]
    • Mojo
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Aside from a handful of instrumental snatches... Democrazy's main events are six or seven tantalising sketches. [Jan 2004, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An hour of heartful, artful singing enhanced by dense, yet fuss-free arrangements. [Jan 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Thematically thin and, consequently, lyrically disappointing. [Jan 2004, p.96]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Her melodies are stirring but the headstrong album only works to a limited degree. [Dec 2003, p.122]
    • Mojo
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Korn] sound both out of focus and curiously out of date. [Feb 2004, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He is, if anything, singing better than ever. [Dec 2003, p.104]
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