Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,504 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:
10504 music reviews
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lewis hasn't topped 2010's masterful Forget, but he has proved it was no fluke. [Aug 2012, p.87]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What was initially a singular vision varies intriguingly. ... although ultimately the pick of albums 19 and 20 could have offered something without any filler. [Mar 2023, p.92]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a pity Parton has retreated into much safer and predictable territory. [May 2022, p.86]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He's at his best when making compulsive, synthetic house anthems. [Mar 2006, p.106]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Vanishing Life] exceed the sum of their hardcore parts by adding loose, QOTSA-style hips to their riffs and even the odd synth. [Jan 2017, p.104]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Plays like a budget price homage to ELO and early '70s Beach Boys, full of pocket symphonies and childlike wonder. [Jan 2006, p.132]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The music is almost secondary, his production' often leaden beats a mere sideshow to mind-bending internal rhyme pyrotechnics that jab hard at the surreal dial. [Jan 2014, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The end result is dark and desolate, but also profound and provocative. [May 2019, p.86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    These 10 duets/duels can be pretty gnarly, but there are beautiful epiphanies, too. [Jul 2020, p.82]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    She's still drawn to the edges like a death's-head moth to an inferno, but once you are in Wolfe's distinctive headspace, it's easy to believe they are her comfort zone, and maybe even yours. [Mar 2025, p.85]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This soaring album defines emotional shoegazing. [Dec 2009, p. 101]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hitchcock's attempt to create a "Basement Tapes" vibe churns up a clutch of affable songs but he looks to have saved his best material for the near contempoary "Ole! Tarantula." [Apr 2010, p.103]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Love Is Here is juvenalia -- persuasive, and suggesting greatness should the band have the courage (or the license) to cut loose. [Nov 2001]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is less of the soundscaping and eerie atmospherics that made last year's X EP so entertainingly varied. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He hops from one musical lilypad to the next--arguably a few too many for comfort. [Aug 2012, p.87]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mostly it's sparse, as a lonesome album should be. [Jan 2026, p.86]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beneath the bells and whistles, there's gold as well schlock. [Nov 2018, p.93]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The London trio founded by drummer Yussef Dayes and Keyboardist Kamaal Williams give it an urban twist , factoring grime and broken beat influences into their unpredictable improvised jams. [Jan 2017, p.99]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Revisits some of his most famous tunes. [May 2020, p.90]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Makes for a cheeky, unerringly upbeat celebration of [London's] party scene. [Feb 2012, p. 94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slime & Reason practically revels in its juicy sense of freedom. [Sep 2008, p.112]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If there are times when their adherence to that sound suggest a country-rock Status Quo the fact they now fit like a pair of well-worn gloves is actually rather comforting. [Apr 2014, p.91]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Like the second series of their HBO sitcom, from which most of the tracks here are culled,...Freaky feels a little rushed, but there's still plenty to love. [Dec 2009, p. 95]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eerily pretty if a little ponderous. [Jun 2014, p.98]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Textured electronica and crafted melodies make for a dense and absorbing effort. [Aug 2014, p.96]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Describe takes time to coalesce, but even through the mists, Jadagu makes her presence felt. [Jan 2026, p.86]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is always the creamy centre of that angelic voice, making this a mightily impressive debut. [Oct 2015, p.93]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When the approach works, the results are bracingly exploratory; when it doesn't they're frustratingly half-formed. [Jul 2005, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not that much has changed sound-wise. [Jul 2005, p.114]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If quality control on Sukierae sometimes sags amid the fecundity, all is forgotten when Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Brooklyn-based new lights Lucius help gild country-folk standouts Wait For Love and Nobody Dies Anymore with calm-yet-striking backing vocals. [Oct 2014, p.94]
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