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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Both the Entermedia set and the alternate takes underscore how much the studio shaped and sculpted these songs. Like the etiolated, unstrung Polaroid band portraits on the album sleeve, there’s a lack of connective tissue in these versions, the alternate Found A Job lacking the delirious carnival sheen of the album take, the live Artists Only missing the full cinema-matinee drama of Jerry Harrison’s moustache-twirling keyboards. [Sep 2025, p.88]
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This stately, sometimes gospel-esque, album has the forceful intensity of a coiled spring. [Oct 2025, p.84]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thick Rich And Delicious is moreish powerpop; a dish best served loud. [Dec 2025, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's beauty here, but Pine slowly melts away the frosted surface to reveal it's not an uncomplicated joy. [Apr 2026, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bear witness to the city's enduringly restless guitar-led, predominantly white male aesthetic - obnoxious, inventive, middle finger raised. [Mar 2026, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a seductive lesson in understated beauty. [Apr 2012, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Simultaneously beautiful and unsettling, it moves from stuttering rhythms of ghost vocals and music loops to immersive multi-layered waves of digital polyphony. [Dec. 2011 p. 99]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although recognisably, and powerfully, the work of Explosions In The Sky this is now a band whose music undulates. [May 2016, p.92]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that opens full of tension, riot and discord--before the acoustic gospel of Peaceful Dream leads into strong pleas for universal love and understand and quests for personal redemption. [Dec 2017, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rose's songwriting revels in its directness. [Jun 2021, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Segall's charms are as abundant as his releases: may his well never run dry. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With [producer Justin] Raisen, she creates a powerhouse sound, one that twists so it can't be easily "curated", labeled, boiled down for vibes. [Apr 2026, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This set stands out as Cleaves' most engaging release since "Broke Down" back in 2000. [Aug 2009, p.104]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A dizzying series of minimalist Afro-psych mantras, Ay Ay Ay interlaces eccentric pounding beats, multitrack boom-tsch hiccups, and nervy fragmented vocals, building a groove that crackles with the rhythmic perversity of Arthur Russell's strangest sound experiments but drives on like a reborn TV On The Radio who've learnt to lose it down the disco. [Jan 10, p. 90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An extraordinary, multi-layered, attention-grabbing record. [Aug 2012, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] Second set of smart, retro-futurist pop. [Jun 2016, p.97]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 13 songs, mostly slow to midtempo with some very fine lyrics, sound pensive and personal. [Jan 2018, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A delectably warm sonic pool that invites frequent plunges. [Feb 2020, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Native Sons adds a local twist as Los Lobos roll back--with new, inventive detail--through their LA roots and influences, binding the Chicano branch of '60s rock and California from the other side of town. [Sep 2021, p.78]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smoke & Fiction is lean rock'n'roll that plays to the group's strengths. [Sep 2024, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The surprises keep coming. [Nov 2008, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Less visceral than before, this one's a quintessential grower. [May 2015, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Initially baffling, Manafon richly replays further decktime. [Oct 2009, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God times are promised--and delivered. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cool, humorous, tender, this is a delicious thing. [Feb 2018, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For all the grown-up entanglements and era-specific worries, it's championship-winning stuff. [Jul 2021, p.85]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Grand, unsettling, and a fitting finale that propels The Upsetter to a higher plain. [Dec 2021, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Both beguiling and frustrating, The Ascension is complex, bold and oddly lovable. [Nov 2020, p.89]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If anything, surpasses its illustrious predecessor. [Sep 2001, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's compulsive listening. [Jun 2013, p.92]
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