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
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best solo album of her career. [May 2003, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Occasionally it feels a little too theatrical--as on Willie O' Winsbury--but its roots are in the right place. [Aug 2017, p.95]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a beautifully eclectic one. [Dec 2020, p.97]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The increasingly salty bite of Oberst's lyrics is only sharpened by the homely warmth of Salutations' arrangements. [Apr 2017, p.97]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For anybody already smitten by Bombino or Group Doueh, this is a drop of the hard stuff. [Dec 2013, p.87]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nonetheless shows the duo pulling themselves up to full songwriting height, not just forging on, but flourishing. [Jun 2024, p.87]
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A diverse yet flawless disc. [Sep 2006, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Much of IM is thrillingly intense, then; a rabbit punch with pop-prog interludes and Devo-like hooks. [Sep 2023, p.88]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Nothing suggests that Parton has lost her touch as a writer. [Aug 2014, p.94]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The results, like a digestible Oneohtrix Point Never, are gloriously sweet natured. [Sep 2016, p.93]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A brave, stand-alone release that lays her talent bare, it's a beautiful unreal entrancement you'll find hard to stop listening to again and again. [Dec 2023, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their latest album offers all the anti-matter salve for the irritations of modern culture that admirers expect. [May 2010, p. 92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's lovely stuff throughout. [Apr 2015, p.87]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You'll need to attune yourself to the unique musical argot that Lopatin has created on R Plus Seven, but once achieved an album of intrigue and beauty is revealed. [Nov 2013, p.89]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What you may lose in rock'n'roll kicks you gain in poignancy and poetry. [Mar 2013, p.86]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imperial Wax Solvent is a swift two-finger rejoinder [to middle aged mellowing]. [June 2008, p.112]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A major work. [Jan 2013, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not so much the future of hip hop as a giant leap sideways. [Aug 2014, p.86]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When it ends it leaves a weird absence that can only be filled by playing the thing again from the start. [Dec 2014, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Locally focused yet state-of-the-nation, in their inventiveness and force such songs as Working Poor, Lost In A Crowd and The Worst defy pessimism, good art in bad times. [Aug 2016, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The backgrounds are rich, warm and authentic sounding, but the real power lies the potent, passionate vocal trinity. [Jul 2017, p.87]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Intimate, timeless music. [Jul 2017, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heavy matter, but eminently danceable, too, thanks to some glorious playing and an adherence to the spirit of Kuti. [Oct 2017, p.95]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Musical touches such as Stephen Large's baroque harpsichord solo on Patchouli and the little three0note 'now boarding' motif that opens Departure lounge cement the sens e of an act that know exactly how to proceed. [Nov 2017, p.94]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Slowly Paradise are slow love songs, but slow love songs that, thanks to Chenaux's playing, suggest an impermanence at the heart of all romance, a chaos at life's core. [Jun 2018, p.93]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Within the framework of 10 solid soul arrangements, the benefits of constancy in love brings a hearty restorative to the downtrodden spirit. [May 2019, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Judicious use of pedal-steel, fiddle, Southern horns and strings brings subtle power, with McKagan just occasionally lending shades of Mott The Hoople to proceedings, and singing with an admirable new confidence and conviction. [Jun 2019, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Step Behind shifts the goalposts, compromising a 32-minute title track and the eight-minute Heart And Soul, an elegant, soulful comedown in the mould of Music From Big Pink. [Nov 2019, p.94]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jackson is in magnificent voice throughout. [Oct 2021, p.88]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His own music finally snaps into focus: gone, the scrappy garage/glam, in favour of sophisticated singer-songwriterly pop constructed around acoustic guitar, strings, extravagantly multi-tracked vocal harmonies and consistent tunes. [Mar 2023, p.86]
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