Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,505 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:
10505 music reviews
    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Booze and heartache are constants, but the mood is never morose, borne aloft by Lenderman’s guitar playing, which is primal but emotionally lucid. His tender lyricism is another big plus, locating laudable empathy for his cast of lovable losers. [Oct 2024, p.90]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Something notable about Albarn's tracks is how hard they are to pick out from the others. [Jul 2023, p.83]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Like Marianne Faithfull’s grazed, rueful daughter telling fragile stories of heartbreak. Or sometimes like Faithfull’s hopeful but world-weary grandmother.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The exceptional songs of Martin Henry are served by the trio's undemonstrative guitar, bass and drums being augmented by keyboards, glockenspiel and harp. [Feb 2016, p.91]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Liminanas have returned all their favours by creating a blast of colourful psychedelia. [Apr 2018, p.93]
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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The State Between Us offers a subtle, multi-layered but potent riposte to latter-day jingoism, the spirit of compassionate inclusion made manifest or woven implicitly into the eclectic sonic narrative. [May 2019, p.95]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song for song, this is their finest to date. [Oct 2011, p.95]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    COYB trade in wintery, foreboding hymnals that conjure Sigur Ros, Radiohead and an existentially challenged Aled Jones staring out across the abyss. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This may be the best album of their 50-plus years together. Bonkers, yes, but quite brilliant. [Jul 2025, p.84]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Singing with a sweet weariness, Kline can seem bemused by her melancholia, her resigned acceptance given an appealing warmth by a band whose gentle sway lends her pop miniatures depth. [Aug 2025, p.78]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's when Marr stops thinking "big festival rock sound" that this LP shines. ... Ultimately, it's all about the angle of his jangle--ever unimpeachable. [Jul 2018, p.88]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An impressive debut that crackles with vitality. [May 2011, p.112]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Listen closely and you'll probably detect the likes of Wire, XTC and New Order but like contemporaries Hot Hot Heat and Ted Leo's Pharmacists, French Kicks are rocking their own joyfully addictive sound. [Jun 2003, p.101]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's considerable ambition at play here. [Dec 2021, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dan Bejar's surprising mix of slinky '80s soft rock and sophisticated disco. [July 2011, p. 106]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Highly engaging. [Dec 2019, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Just like McCartneys I and II, III is a confounding cocktail of genius and misfires. [Jan 2021, p.82]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their improvisational roots are still evident, but the bursts of outsider pop shining through proves they have plenty more to dig up. [Jan 2019, p.89]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's more of what we know, which should suit Metallica heads just fine. [Dec 2017, p.105]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Audacious, hook-packed debut. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fifth studio album filled with hooks aplenty and gonzoid fun. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the time the closing spiritual Requiem rolls around it's self-evident Russell is very much in a genre of one. [Nov 2023, p.86]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While the collection's title acknowledges the scary presence of three Misfits songs. As for "Mistakes", however, there really are none. [Dec 2023, p.105]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Continues to hit the sonic sweet spots. [Jun 2019, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sumptuous, sonic world built from dense, sampled snippets, repetitive phrases and percussive sound design. [Jun 2019, p.95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gardot's torch ballads smoulder intensely. [Apr 2009, p.103]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Babelsberg is, without doubt, one of the finest expressions so far of Rhys's talent. [Jul 2018, p.90]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Great Bailout is a grand, artistic and political statement in an age when such vision is too rarely attempted. [Apr 2024, p.87]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their best in years. [Dec 2003, p.118]
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