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
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's nothing here that elevates the Goodies above the level of the ordinary. [Aug 2004, p.96]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Much of All The Lost Souls is far more icky-yucky than its predecessor. [Oct 2007, p.90]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Its rote alternarock thrills are meagre vittles compared to the revolutionary metal the principle players have wrought in the past. [Oct 2006, p.110]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Songs swerve] between undistinguished reggae, so-so pop and indistinct blues-rock. [Nov 2011, p.92]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Its icky love songs sadly have no beating heart, and very little soul. [Jul 2015, p.93]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A second rate version of the original. [Sep 2005, p.102]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As each song features a different vocalist and each is a snapshot, it's difficult to tell which character is singing, to get emotionally involved or to keep up with the story without much refernce to the book. [Apr 2010, p.103]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The permanence of adolescent earnestness hangs about the Young Adult novel-ish lyrics. [Jul 2014, p.92]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When the title track and Handshake attempt stylistic detours they are swiftly re-routed with a familiar chorus or chord progression, symbolising the "play it safe" mentality of the whole album. [Oct 2012, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ultimately setting up camp in the middle ground between King Of Limbs-era Radiohead and mid-80s Tears For fears. [May 2019, p.86]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's an absence of audible heat, no palpable anguish or tantrums. [Oct 2009. p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Ultimately though, too much of Echo is over familiar. By the end you find yourself longing for some subtlety or more light and shade.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The blue-collar earnestness is still served in large dollops, but there;s a sense of over-reach about the whole thing. [May 2011, p.100]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Only the faithful need apply. [Jul 2006, p.101]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The result, unfortunately, is one of the dreariest hours you will even spend listening to music. [Aug 2009, p.100]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's all a bit similar, and amazingly unmoving, until the last number. [May 2014, p.92]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pleasant enough, but you may feel you've heard this conversation before. [Jun 2013, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The problem lies with the unrelentingly downbeat music. [Dec 2014, p.96]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With a few exceptions, she just sounds bored. [Aug 2015, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Now
    Producers Ron Anielo and Matthew Koma stick to the formula. And it's not enough. [Oct 2017, p.94]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    [Painting] loses momentum. [Mar 2013, p.98]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Confusing mix of glam-influenced punk and would-be party bangers a tad disappointing. [Apr 2020, p.93]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Not Music can feel a little like trying to solve a series of Sudoko puzzles, the brain fully engaged but the heart untaxed. [Dec 2010, p.97]
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While there's some inspired moments, much should've been discarded on son Woody's bedroom floor. [Oct 2004, p.104]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Stone pens 14 of the 15 songs and has clearly overstretched herself; the material is bland and only on sublime, transcendental 'Baby,'featuring Betty Wright and a cappella showcase 'Go Back To Your Life' do we hear the Angie of old. [Nov 2007, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's pleasant enough, but suffers for not taking songs places they've never been. [May 2018, p.98]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This crisply produced second LP sticks rigidly to the same mandate--big beats and bigger tunes--and feels a little dated as a result. [Jun 2011, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sumner's fans won't be disappointed, but it feels a bit like a stopgap. [Nov 2009, p.90]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Deez is revealed as a one-trick pony in the nine variants that follow. [Jun 2010, p.102]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Papa Roch no doubt think there's venom in songs like Hollywood Whore--and they're certainly more visceral heard live here--but these ears just hear the low-IQ goofiness of Motley Crue combined with the stylistic similarities of rockers-by-rote Nickelback. [Sep 2010, p.96]
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