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
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A magnificent record. [Jan 2004, p.104]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A tremendous (and timely) distraction from the bad news from the desert this year. [May 2013, p.85]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Waking The Dreaming Body is both welcoming comfort and a surprising joy. [Apr 2021, p.82]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    [It] was mind-bending in its day and remains so now. [May 2006, p.122]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] dark and glorious vision, reinterpreting Nashville country-soul hits from the '60s and '70s. [Jul 2016, p.97]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This superb second album does indeed make a dramatic leap forward. [Mar 2014, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A more intimate dimension to this incisive chronicler of beleaguered times. [May 2022, p.88]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Capturing his bad life choices, regrets and hopes at their most immediate. [Aug 2021, p.84]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A potpourri of country, rock, bluegrass and folk, the constant being top-shelf picking and soaring harmonies. [Nov 2022, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halo digs deep into the unknown and bring back unexpected brilliance. [Jun 2017, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A lot happens on Eleven Eleven -- all of it good. [Sept. 2011, p. 106]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [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]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anima is his third solo album, outside of soundtracks, and it's his richest. [Sep 2019, p.87]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As well as blending linguistic elegance and musical levity, Sparkle Hard affirms Stephen Malkmus's increasingly contemplative approach. [Jun 2018, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fine, off-beat listen. [Jan 2006, p.124]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's sonically deeper and more emotionally engaging, from start to finish, than any previous SOK release. [Jun 2021, p.83]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] disarming, relatable debut. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stark, resolute songs. [Apr 2022, p.85]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hard to pin down, harder not to enjoy. [Jan 2026, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The information exchange attains a near perfect equilibrium between sanctified melody and distress signals. [Oct 2021, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Audacious, hook-packed debut. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The most striking thing about Listening To Pictures is how effortlessly contemporary it sounds. [Jul 2018, p.94]
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