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 |
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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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An arresting cocktail of post-punk angularity and instinctive pop savy. [Feb 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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Modern without being self-conscious, metal without being stupid. [Mar 2004, p.106]- Mojo
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The lyrics have become downright soppy and the melodies turned trite. [Feb 2004, p.92]- Mojo
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Despite a blip of vital signs, this 4-CD sprawl does The Cure's reputation no real favours. [Feb 2004, p.106]- Mojo
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Elbow... have let new-found bliss propel them to yet loftier heights. [Sep 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
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No great surprises, then, but as aurally seductive as ever. [Mar 2004, p.101]- Mojo
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A varied, febrile affair more often than not in pursuit of the lunatic. [Feb 2004, p.93]- Mojo
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This time there's noticeably less fuzz and extraneous squall piled on top. [Feb 2004, p.92]- Mojo
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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
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Keeps an unsteady path between fine altered-state atmospherica and irritating cosmic twittering. [Feb 2004, p.100]- Mojo
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Molina's darkest, most achingly desolate work so far. [Apr 2004, p.102]- Mojo
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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
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The whole affair comes off like a desperate bit of trend trawling. [Feb 2004, p.99]- Mojo
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No self-indulgence, no grandstanding, just excellent. [Mar 2004, p.100]- Mojo
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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
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Aside from a handful of instrumental snatches... Democrazy's main events are six or seven tantalising sketches. [Jan 2004, p.96]- Mojo
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An hour of heartful, artful singing enhanced by dense, yet fuss-free arrangements. [Jan 2004, p.106]- Mojo
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Thematically thin and, consequently, lyrically disappointing. [Jan 2004, p.96]- Mojo
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Her melodies are stirring but the headstrong album only works to a limited degree. [Dec 2003, p.122]- Mojo
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[Korn] sound both out of focus and curiously out of date. [Feb 2004, p.95]- Mojo
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