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
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Without ostentation, The Ragpicker's Dream draws his major sources together: R&B, country, North-East folk. [Oct 2002, p.106]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Half existential joy'n'emptiness, half just empty. [Oct 2002, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A worthy addition to the small Boys catalogue. [Dec 2002, p.122]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Sea Change aches too thoroughly to be mere career shift. It's the kind of album that at times seems too sad for the singer's own good. [Album of the Month, Oct 2002, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    A sometimes disturbing, but often breathtakingly lovely record. [Oct 2002, p.98]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beam's evocation of elemental themes and dramas is too profound and affecting to deny. [Jan 2003, p.92]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A richly rewarding album. [Nov 2002, p.114]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They have settled gracefully into the task of making a consistently glorious racket. [Oct 2002, p. 100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In replacing the stark natural timbre of recent albums with layers of reverb and oblique orchestration, the pure heart of the songs has been obscured, if not lost. [Oct 2002, p.96]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While on occasion disappointingly heavy handed, the more wistful moments shine through the murk. [Nov 2002, p.105]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Depending what side you take in the Heartbreaker v. Gold debate, you'll like some tracks more than others. [Oct 2002, p.92]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another stirring record. [Feb 2003, p.88]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Consider this a Zen disc: sit with it awhile, and it will come to you. [Nov 2002, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This bloody enormous rock demeanour means Stone Roses fans may not be amused. [Oct 2002, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's mostly a success, though its dominant tone of understated, rainy melancholia is unlikely to earn Parish a dressing room with a star on the door. [Oct 2002, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's his skill as a bruised, intimate narrator that makes this album such an alluring addition to Doe's swelling canon. [Feb 2003, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You have wit, wisdom, and yet another Adamson sonic script you wish someone would film. [Oct 2002, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The cumulative effect is wildly narcotic. [Oct 2002, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    ESG are still creating music of eerie austerity. [Oct 2002, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of the most powerfully surging melodies from a British band since the second Travis album. [March 2002, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All the elements which made its predecessor so great are here, but in excelsis, and occasionally excess. [Sep 2002, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The line between hypnotic and tediously repetitive is occasionally crossed. [Sep 2002, p.94]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Johns has finally learned how to cull from his influences without plagiarising them. [Sep 2002, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Michael Lockwood's production occasionally affects a sound akin to a Vonda Sheppard reared on black dreams and Russian literature. [Oct 2002, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Musically, it's the richest record of Pulp's career.... We Love Life isn't perfect, but it is vital. [Nov 2001, p.96]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Among their best. [Sep 2002, p.104]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    She's one of a handful of people who could sing the telephone directory. [Dec 2002, p.115]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Humour saves the Liars. [Sep 2002, p.110]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another masterfully blended cocktail of restless electronic beats, analogue daubings and digitally blasted vocals. [Nov 2002, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    His most commercial sounding material to date. [Nov 2002, p.106]
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