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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McFarlane inhabits her songbook, eking out fresh meanings and truths. Unashamedly old-school backing from a core quartet of Giacomo Smith (sax), Joe Webb (piano), Ferg Ireland (bass) and Jas Kayser (drums) plays to her storytelling gifts. [Aug 2024, p.84]- Mojo
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[An] expansive advance on their Indian classical-inspired sound. [Aug 2013, p.98]- Mojo
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Holmes's genius is to create a space in which these records are not only at home, but where they shine. [Apr 2002, p.128]- Mojo
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By and large, as per its title, Yours, Dreamily is a downtempo treat, tailor-made for sundazed summer evening drives with the window down. [Sep 2015, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Aug 31, 2015 -
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Sinewy. ... Lines brings a clear echo of mid-period Pink Floyd to the table. [Mar 2022, p83]- Mojo
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Live drums and guitars give it a feeling of anarchic playfulness. [Aug 2005, p.101]- Mojo
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From the moment she opens her mouth here: her gargley vocal, set to fortissimo, summons dusty trails, rattling trains and late-night boozing. [Jan 2017, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Dec 13, 2016 -
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it's unashamedly full-on, Cro-Magnon stuff, but this chaos is often glorious. [Apr 2020, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Feb 28, 2020 -
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Their studio albums have been moving away from virtuoso instrumentals toward vocal songs, of which this album has some excellent examples. [Dec 2007, p.104]- Mojo
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The musical and emotional ground covered here is remarkable, evidence of an artist who can locate joy inside pain, and whose adventurous, modernist, fearful funk can be movingly expressive. [May 2020, p.88]- Mojo
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Posted Jan 23, 2014 -
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There are grand arrangements and barbed bon mots in the style of Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, but what's most striking are the more restrained moments. [Mar 2014, p.94]- Mojo
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Despite playing with pop forms, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately holds Hadreas's experimental shape, his artistic line. ... A slow burner, in every way. [Jun 2020, p.94]- Mojo
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With her flinty guitar growling eloquent melodies and stricken solos, the group rock with a primal sensitivity akin to early Throwing Muses, but it's Powell's voice that's their truly irresistible element. [Nov 2008, p.118]- Mojo
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These four sidelong pieces, buttressed by a trio of percussive friends, are gentle journeys into the great beyond. [Nov 2022, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Sep 21, 2022 -
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It's sleek through and through; vicious when it needs to be, yet overwhelmingly classy. [Jun 2016, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Apr 29, 2016 -
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Richey Edwards has his words set to the best music his bandmates have made since their last album together. [Jun 2009, p.97]- Mojo
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Bowerbirds at their least bucolic, both expanding and focusing on a sound that is as timeless as The Band. [Apr 2012, p. 89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 22, 2012 -
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There's some blurring over 17 tracks, but as a whole piece, Freetown Sound is a record with unusually sharp focus. [Aug 2016, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Jun 28, 2016 -
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In The Court Of... sounds both warmly familiar yet dazzlingly fresh.- Mojo
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Furnaces is an entirely winning proposition due to its high melodic content, making for Harcourt's best record yet. [Sep 2016, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Aug 3, 2016 -
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Deep, rewarding songs, rich in authorly detail, which, not for the first time, position Rateliff, still only 45, as a new Springsteen. [Aug 2024, p.81]- Mojo
Posted Jun 26, 2024 -
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It's too taxing for the less intense of the band's admirers. [Nov 2004, p.127]- Mojo
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Built around minimalist synth sequences that are slow-building and tense, with agitated pin-prick rhythms and pulsing stabs evoking a vastness of space and associated emotional states. [Jan 2022, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Dec 21, 2021 -
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Toure sounds at his best, then, with distorted guitars behind him, brooding on an album of menacing, slow-burn songs reflecting on a rough year in Mali. [Aug 2013, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Jul 25, 2013 -
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This NYC ambient country trio continue to evolve on their fifth LP. [Sep 2024, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Aug 1, 2024 -
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The huge exhilaration of Hawk's previous two albums has largely been replaced by more troubled moods - and more stylistic variety - but bravura lyrics remain. [Sep 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Aug 14, 2024 -
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With Ulrich Schnauss's ambient touches adding extra depth to the mix, it's the sound of a belated coming of age. [Sep 2014, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Aug 29, 2014 -
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Shows just how focused their rock'n'roll attack has become. [May 2006, p.105]- Mojo