Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,509 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:
10509 music reviews
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The album is crowned by the extraordinary, seven-minutes-plus Death Engine, where a gospel feel gives way to a lengthy, rolling, Bach-like coda. On an otherwise tonally unified album, this is where Linden's emotions are at their rawest. [Jun 2020, p.89]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The freshness of allowing us into his private world, most importantly, fuels Lanegan's third rock/electronic beauty on the bounce. [Jun 2020, p.86]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Earworms abound. [May 2020, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two nuanced, outstanding duets with French avant-popper SaraSara help lighten the all-consuming existential despair. [Jun 2020, p.91]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It sounds as spare and intimate, as if Jurado were singing inside your head. The songs are up there with his best. [Jun 2020, p.91]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    10 seamless melds of indie guitars and electronic pop, stuffed with spry choruses and poetic self-castigation delivered in Toledo's appealingly crushed bleat. [Jun 2020, p.86]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A piece of music caught between the human and alien, the reassuring and the uncanny. [May 2020, p.91]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Intended as a chilly-pastoral instrumental cycle for piano, three cellos and string quartet, but Los Angles sound designer Jennifer Pague pitched lyrics for four tracks and a more personal narrative took shape, evoking solitude and morbidity. [Jun 2020, p. 93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [The new songs] have a compression and pop playfulness often lacking from his albums, yet still manages to address the complex "every feeling" emotions of high school students. [May 2020, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A giddy, unpredictable pop record that put new spins on every cliche it touches, while Benson;s innately McCartneyesque melodic gift successfully sells every occasionally saccharine lyric. [Jun 2020, p.88]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A return from the wilds. ... Some of the best vocal melodies Tabish has yet channelled. [Jun 2020, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Only a droll stab at Dueling Banjos shades into the hokeyness that could've cursed the entire project. [Jun 2020, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While the drum-less duo reach a wonderfully womb-like stasis amid Moth To The Flame's nine drawn-out minutes - Weber's whispers all at sea in a deep duvet of guitars - they're also unafraid to explore darker territory. [Jun 2020, p.91]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Far Enough takes the most exhilarating form of resistance, much more than riot grrrl's DIY aesthetic, akin to a harder-rocking Sleater Kinney with a similarly wailing centrifugal force in singer/guitarist Jenny McKechnie. [Jun 2020, p.90]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's numinous stuff. [Jun 2020, p.95]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The album appears as a warm, welcoming pool, soaking its balms, and its messages, deep into our bones. [Jun 2020, p.84]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are straight-ahead, stripped down, old-style blues rockers. ... Also there just the blues - slow beauties that seem to be about depression and being lost, that feel more personal than political. [Jun 2020, p.88]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dark humour and combustive noise are proven fine bedfellows, and Flat Worms will soon have you slam-dancing as the planet burns. [May 2020, p.86]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    At times it's all too much, but Christinzio knows how to burn without crashing. [May 2020, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He and his songs sound beautifully close-knit. [May 2020, p.89]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs on this second solo album are more substantive than those of 2017's Wintres Woma. [May 2020, p.90]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A very fine, if long-gestated, debut. [May 2020, p.93]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slightly frustratingly, similar changeability [as 2018's Lala Belu] prevails here. [May 2020, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Best tracks are the most acid. [May 2020, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It feels both strangely timeless and oddly new. [May 2020, p.93]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A heady cultural cocktail where the Sahara meets the Rising Sun. [May 2020, p.87]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their cover of Got Love If You Want It is a raw, gritty highlight. [Apr 2020, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The arrangements within are more ebullient and wide-ranging. ... His subjects - all character sketches of friends or chance meetings - are also multifaceted. [May 2020, p.89]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yet even at its most downbeat and damaged, this music gleams with a steely determination to be heard. [May 2020, p.87]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Disillusion and disappointment have become fuel for creation, not self-immolation; second-guessing has been replaced by first-hand emotion. ... For the first time in a while -- that The Strokes shouldn't be gearing up for goodbye. [May 2020, p.86]
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