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
    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]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fine follow-up. ... McBryde's charisma remains centre-stage. [May 2020, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [If You're Dreaming] has a strong vintage feel. [May 2020, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's an early Daptone feel to this strong set. [May 2020, p.96]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautiful stuff. More, please. [Apr 2020, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Svelte, mostly acoustic collection is so refreshing. [May 2020, p.94]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    925
    Nothing is ever explained, but ambiguity only reinforces Sorry's wonderfully slippery presence. [Apr 2020, p.95]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Showcases [singer Yukimi Nagano's] full emotional range. ... Six albums in, now, as ever, Little Dragon deserve far more attention. [May 2020, p.94]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An irresistibly raucous entree to their world. [May 2020, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With hooks as deep as heartbeats, this has the sweep of the desert dunes in it. [Apr 2020, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A thick braid of an album, each song a bundle of strands interweaving with next. [May 2020, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rose Golden Doorways will undoubtedly repel and attract, but its sheer force is spellbinding. [Apr 2020, p.94]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rejoice stands tall alongside both artists' greatest work. [May 2020, p.95]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Regularly transcend mere pastiche. [Apr 2020, p.86]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A free-floating space jazz run at Joni & Mingus's Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is typical of his approachable fusion. [May 2020, p.96]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Revisits some of his most famous tunes. [May 2020, p.90]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    No one said living "woke" was gonna be easy, but Thick turn the friction into furious, satisfying pop. [May 2020, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eventually capturing both the sickly magenta beauty and unnatural creeping dread of Lovecraft's alien world. [May 2020, p.90]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    LP5
    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]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    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]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strong and loose, political and personal, Pearl Jam get the balance absolutely right. [May 2020, p.84]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    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]
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