Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,507 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:
10507 music reviews
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As it swivels between rock hymns like the Boss-backed New York comeback and country laments like Jukebox, it becomes a primer for newcomers, not a unified statement on a par with 2020's raw Good Souls Better Angels or the landmark Car Wheels On A Gravel Road. Still, it is a triumph that this exists at all. [Aug 2023, p.80]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's exquisitely crafted and the backing vocals on North Country Ride are beyond beautiful, but a little more colour in their palette wouldn't go amiss. [Aug 2023, p.78]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A richly detailed synth-pop LP of admirable sophistication. [Jul 2023, p.82]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Re-contextualises them as an act who wrecked glorious havoc on their unchanging musical parameters for decades. [Aug 2023, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The tunes recall artworks born of constraint and a strictly limited palette, a very specific kind of less equalling more. [Aug 2023, p.80]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like a wonderous and very clever piece of musical brain onomatopoeia. [Aug 2023, p.84]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confident and expansive, yet intimate and subtle, Bonny Doon are in a good place here. [Aug 2023, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Excellent third LP aligns with riot grrrl-era pop for its force and intelligence. [Aug 2023, p.88]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's hard world for little things, pigeon or human: these songs fight to ease the way. [Jul 2023, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 10 tracks of Brain Worms don't outstay their welcome, but as the title suggests, they do linger. [Aug 2023, p.84]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is the Foos' finest since There Is Nothing Left To Lose. [Aug 2023, p.82]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rarely has a plunge into apocalyptic hell been such a hoot. [Aug 2023, p.82]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As The Murlocs wave their freak-flag high, the party raves on via the taut Southern rock riffage of Common Sense Civilian and Russian Roulette's rogue Farfisa. [Aug 2023, p.78]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, you feel Homme's pain, but ultimately marvel at his ability to channel it into music so brutally uplifting. [Aug 2023, p.79]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A furiously funky soundtrack to impending doom. [Aug 2023, p.85]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    44 minutes of scourging song broken up by ambient drone, terrifying din and choral interludes - is both uncompromising and brilliant. [Aug 2023, p.85]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite a surfeit of guests and some over-embellished kitchen sink production, the hit rate is remarkably high, reminding just how far Killer Mike's unflinching, candid style has evolved since he debuted on Outkast's Stankonia. [Aug 2023, p.84]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These dozen songs are a prime distillation of their essential pantheism. [Aug 2023, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Versions Of Us is full of such emotional blue plaque moments, small humans marking their time on a grandly heartfelt scale. [Jun 2023, p.85]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Based on what's here, it's impossible to guess which could follow next. [Jul 2023, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At times, the tracks seem almost overburdened with poignancy - typically, the tectonic major to minor chordal shifts of Gold push Birgisson’s ululations into ever more heartrending melodic shapes – and everywhere a kind of voluptuous awestruck sublimity pervades. [Sep 2023, p.84]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King Of A Land is an elegant, warmly orchestrated work. [Jul 2023, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Time Ain't Accidental has a blazing confidence. [Jul 2023, p.84]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Harmonious stuff, in every sense. [Jul 2023, p.86]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beguilingly, knowingly rendered debut. [Jul 2023, p.92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though shorter and lighter than 2018’s magnificent Dirty Computer, it delivers its full measure of pleasure. Doing just what it says on the tin, a 21st century pop peak. [Sep 2023, p.89]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At times, her fluency leaves you wishing for a smudge or run that hasn't been place deliberately, but from the Tom Petty love-the-one-you're-with of Apples And Oranges to Cherry Baby's soft-focus disco, Lewis is a smart, fluent builder of her world. [Jul 2023, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These witches are still burning. [Jul 2023, p.88]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    O Monolith is no less bold of palette - opener Swing (in A Dream) embraces taut post-punk chug, jazz trumpet and enveloping synths - but always follows a lucid, compelling logic. [Jul 2023, p.86]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brightly flags up their sixth album's abundant strengths. [Jul 2023, p.98]
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