Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,509 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: 6,863 out of 10509
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10509
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Negative: 34 out of 10509
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After 33 years of intuitive playing together they are able to show you their close-up sculpted technique, as if revealing their workings, and then do something so transcendent, so miraculous, that it causes you to believe in magic once again. [May 2020, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Apr 3, 2020 -
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Fine follow-up. ... McBryde's charisma remains centre-stage. [May 2020, p.90]- Mojo
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Kushal Gaya's vocal hooks bristle with political fury as polyrhythms jostle with George Crowley and Pete Wareham's brass riffs. [May 2020, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Apr 2, 2020 -
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It's a beautiful warm bath of a record, but a soporific one too, better suited for wallowing within, rather than getting you moving. [May 2020, p.90]- Mojo
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Further confirmation, then, that this stalwart of the rave generation, with a little help from his friends, still has plenty of fire left in his belly. [May 2020. p.89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 31, 2020 -
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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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The amount of recording distortion on some pieces, like on the sparse, meandering piano instrumental Last Of The Lantern Oil, can tip the balance over into ear-buzzing discomfort. [Apr 2020, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Mar 27, 2020 -
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Nothing is ever explained, but ambiguity only reinforces Sorry's wonderfully slippery presence. [Apr 2020, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Mar 26, 2020 -
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Showcases [singer Yukimi Nagano's] full emotional range. ... Six albums in, now, as ever, Little Dragon deserve far more attention. [May 2020, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Mar 25, 2020 -
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A jittery suite of clattering protest jams, further uplifted by the ferocious interplay between trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and alto saxophonist Keir Neuringer. [May 2020, p.95]- Mojo
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With hooks as deep as heartbeats, this has the sweep of the desert dunes in it. [Apr 2020, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Mar 24, 2020 -
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These 21 carefully edited electronic jams have a distinctly new age feel, glacier-sized slabs of ambience occasionally disrupted by undulating or cluttering beats. [May 2020, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 24, 2020 -
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A thick braid of an album, each song a bundle of strands interweaving with next. [May 2020, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Mar 23, 2020 -
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Rose Golden Doorways will undoubtedly repel and attract, but its sheer force is spellbinding. [Apr 2020, p.94]- Mojo
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A free-floating space jazz run at Joni & Mingus's Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is typical of his approachable fusion. [May 2020, p.96]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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Singer Barbora Patkova's soulful charge that brings a tighter focus to a set of roiling, otherworldly jams whcih sound like Can and Funkadelic getting high on Sun Ra's unfettered jazz supply. [May 2020, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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Revisits some of his most famous tunes. [May 2020, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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No one said living "woke" was gonna be easy, but Thick turn the friction into furious, satisfying pop. [May 2020, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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Eventually capturing both the sickly magenta beauty and unnatural creeping dread of Lovecraft's alien world. [May 2020, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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Sometimes, it fits and sounds glorious. ... But on other tracks it sounds like an Aphex B-side is bleeding in from the next room. Beneath the white noise, however, Moreland is in rich form. [May 2020, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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A superlative crooner with grit, soul and impeccable phrasing, James caresses and finesses every syllable of his highly literate, deeply personal songs. [Apr 2020, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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Strong and loose, political and personal, Pearl Jam get the balance absolutely right. [May 2020, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020 -
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Elegant and haunting as the individual tracks may be, it's difficult to remain engaged throughout 75 minutes of music with such a uniform mood. [May 2020, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 17, 2020