Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,504 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,858 out of 10504
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10504
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Negative: 34 out of 10504
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Blood Money makes for an extravagant headphone experience if you're in the right frame of mind. If not, its clatter and blare and nihilism will genuinely jangle your nerves. [Co-Album Of The Month (with 'Alice'), May 2002, p.94]- Mojo
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A tremendous (and timely) distraction from the bad news from the desert this year. [May 2013, p.85]- Mojo
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Waking The Dreaming Body is both welcoming comfort and a surprising joy. [Apr 2021, p.82]- Mojo
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A new depth to her prickly but previously sometimes brattish lyrics, a grown-up album by a real grown-up who knows how to sugar-coat a pill for mass consumption. [Oct 2013, p.95]- Mojo
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[It] was mind-bending in its day and remains so now. [May 2006, p.122]- Mojo
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The debut solo album is as ornate as 2009's Veckatimest, with Rossen now playing almost all the buccaneering acoustic guitars, cascading piano lines, cellos and woodwinds himself. [May 2022, p.94]- Mojo
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[A] dark and glorious vision, reinterpreting Nashville country-soul hits from the '60s and '70s. [Jul 2016, p.97]- Mojo
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This superb second album does indeed make a dramatic leap forward. [Mar 2014, p.90]- Mojo
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A more intimate dimension to this incisive chronicler of beleaguered times. [May 2022, p.88]- Mojo
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Capturing his bad life choices, regrets and hopes at their most immediate. [Aug 2021, p.84]- Mojo
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A potpourri of country, rock, bluegrass and folk, the constant being top-shelf picking and soaring harmonies. [Nov 2022, p.93]- Mojo
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Meticulously constructed, yet with melodies and rhythms born out of improvisation, it's an album of two halves, moving from euphoric collapse to an uncertain contentment. [Jun 2018, p.89]- Mojo
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Halo digs deep into the unknown and bring back unexpected brilliance. [Jun 2017, p.93]- Mojo
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[Hank Cochran's] proven an inspirational figure for honky tonk star Johnson, who's managed to rope in half of Nashville for this revamp of Cochran's songbook. [Feb 2013, p.90]- Mojo
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[Sleep] have customarily not rushed into nailing The Sciences, nor departed from their rubric of burroughsian ganja mythspinning, set to eardrum-busting, down-tuned slo-mo jams. [Jul 2018, p.88]- Mojo
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Anima is his third solo album, outside of soundtracks, and it's his richest. [Sep 2019, p.87]- Mojo
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As well as blending linguistic elegance and musical levity, Sparkle Hard affirms Stephen Malkmus's increasingly contemplative approach. [Jun 2018, p.94]- Mojo
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It's sonically deeper and more emotionally engaging, from start to finish, than any previous SOK release. [Jun 2021, p.83]- Mojo
Posted May 11, 2021 -
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Mimicking the band's whole existence, it flickers between light and shade, its clouds fast-moving, sunshine blotted out before it breaks through. [Apr 2018, p.88]- Mojo
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Her insinuation of millennial angst-pop into pre-millennial alt-rock is so deft and affecting that Sometimes, Forever rewards the investment. Soccer Mommy feels like the real deal, [Jul 2022, p.92]- Mojo
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The packed tracklist suggests perfectly imperfect nuggets. ... The haunted, magical lies of Gonna Learn Too Crawl, meanwhile, invite close listening to his more muted, intimate moments, too. [Feb 2026, p.81]- Mojo
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The information exchange attains a near perfect equilibrium between sanctified melody and distress signals. [Oct 2021, p.91]- Mojo
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The most striking thing about Listening To Pictures is how effortlessly contemporary it sounds. [Jul 2018, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jun 5, 2018