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
    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their initial torrid confluence of My Bloody Valentine and Joy Division here shapeshifts more towards "synth-assisted stadium nu-gaze," with odd Kraut-y hints of early Simple Minds, and frequent echoes of their new found patron: fune-real The Arbor is pure Disintegration, while shimmering Keep It All To Yourself has Kiss Me! Kiss Me! Kiss Me!'s hi-tech dazzle. [Feb 2019, p.88]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It can be vague on the details, but Baker's songwriting is smart and serious enough to keep Little Oblivions from burning out entirely. [Apr 2021, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A charming glide of warm fuzz-pop that suffers only through their influences being worn perhaps too clearly upon their sleeves. [Oct 2004, p.101]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Fantasy Empire buzzes, drills and throbs with a brutal power that is relentlessly, terrifyingly exciting. [Apr 2015, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raw and skiffly as you'd expect. [Apr 2015, p.95]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beneath Tweedy's twinkling lights, Crowell wears each look like a favourite old coat - familiar, easy, and pocked by stains and rips that remind him of all he's seen. [Jun 2023, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Foxes In The Snow – a shoo-in for Isbell’s seventh Grammy – has already set the bar for best Americana album of the year. [Apr 2025, p.84]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rarely less than poignant, with the composer's gift for aching earworm melody much in evidence. [Oct 2020, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Milk For Flowers sound wide awake; gloriously alive. [Apr 2023, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Stigmergy, named after a concept of collective action, that best encapsulates the ecstatic NIS groupthink: one hypnotic soloist after another - Ben Lamar Gay, brilliant on coronet - drifting elegantly in and out of systems repetition. [Jun 2023, p.92]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is to Ghosted what Layla Part 2 is to Layla, the transcendent, ambient coda to the hit record and, to those in the know, the place where you go for calm, peace and release. [Jun 2024, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another inspirational triumph over adversity. [Oct 2018, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The hair-raising honesty of their younger incarnation might have softened, but their new confidence and control ensure theses songs let a lot of life in. [Apr 2021, p.78]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Polwart conveys contrasting themes of tragedy, redemption, hope and homecoming with immensely affecting guile. [Jan 2018, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Providence Canyon is one of those brilliantly timeless albums that could have been lost in someone's dusty attic for decades. [Aug 2018, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a journey beyond self-consciousness and towards mature vulnerability, to an evolved idea of what is musically pure. [Jan 2019, p.82]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Worth the 10-year wait. [Nov 2019, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Singer Barbora Patkova's soulful charge that brings a tighter focus to a set of roiling, otherworldly jams whcih sound like Can and Funkadelic getting high on Sun Ra's unfettered jazz supply. [May 2020, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Old Fabled River deals only in wistful enchantment, with four, typically bardic, otherworldly Roberts originals augmented by traditional ballads and a brace of Norwegian hymnals, achingly emoted by saxophonist Marthe Lea. [Aug 2021, p.88]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, the Brothers' riotous dustbowl carnival sounds and Ian's pointed deadpan make for a consistently entertaining cocktail. [Oct 2021, p.92]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Citizen Kane Jr. Blues has the challenged audio of a cassette machine hidden inside a coat or under a napkin. it also has the precious, authentic thrill of one-night-only magic. [Jun 2022, p.96]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A potent artistic tour de force, White Jesus Black Problems' message is ultimately a simple but life-affirming one: love can conquer all. [Jul 2022, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its four long, richly-textured instrumentals thrum with existential reverence. [Aug 2022, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A few sag under the weight of brooding brass and strings - Lookout For Hope, Doom - but others soar - Beautiful Dreamer, Electricity, We Shall Overcome. Ultimately it's a winner. [Jun 2024, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There’s a vulnerability and a very English kind of saudade to Below A Massive Dark Land, but also a sense of individual purpose [Nov 2024, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultimately, A Sober Conversation amounts to a brilliant and bold record that is all the more powerful for its deployment of life-affirming groves and melodies. [Aug 2025, p.78]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yet another acknowledgement of these two commanding talents. [Nov 2014, p.95]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Morby has delivered largely run-of-the-mill roots rock, but Singing Saw is more measured. [Jun 2016, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Each song is perfectly realised.[Mar 2021, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A rare (and improved) document of a more muscular Wings. [Aug 2024, p.99]
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