Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,495 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:
10495 music reviews
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Each song seems like an effort to atomise their grief and frustration, with frequently clarity amid icy electronic noir. [Mar 2019, p.99]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their sixth album shows them shaping the grim thoughts of The Animals and The Island into poised, potent songs. [Mar 2019, p.96]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lyrics are lovably askew and songs rarely breach three-minutes. In conclusion: more is still more. [Mar 2019, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Psychedelic Country Soul puts them right back at the top of a world they helped create. [Mar 2019, p.91]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Throughout, this is a masterclass in pop fun. [Mar 2019, p.98]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An evocative, synesthesic aura halos the second LP from the transatlantic trio. [Jan 2019, p.93]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The pieces here are teeming with small melodic and rhythmic details across a range of textures. [Mar 2019, p.87]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is room in the world for such quaint records as these, but the world doesn't need another version of the Eagles' Take It Easy. [Mar 2019, p.91]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    When the title track and poignant closer This House Has No Living Room, open out into bare-wire nocturnal balladry of limitless emotional beauty, Burslem's single-minded mania is vindicated, and the listener's happiness guaranteed. [Mar 2019, p.98]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A set weighted towards her 2007-to-present day material, mainly modern freedom songs performed with energy and joy. At 79, Mavis's vocal retains its gutsy passion and vitality. [Mar 2019, p.95]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Typically eclectic, off-kilter and irreverent. [Feb 2019, p.90]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tip of the Sphere's greatest riches, though, lie in McCombs' mystical, questing songcraft. [Mar 2019, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rebooted with tender opulence, affectionate awe, and full commitment o a widescreen, almost transcendental experience. [Mar 2019, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Over and over again, Pratt hovers on the brink of revelation, yet Quiet Signs puts down a code, that, brilliantly, it's not quite possible to break. [Mar 2019, p.89]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    True North feels both stoic and positive in outlook. [Mar 2019, p.91]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rousing sedated melodies under a blanket of distortion. [Mar 2019, p.99]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lennox has created a record that mixes the hum of his adopted city [Lisbon] with the serenity of its oceanside setting. [Mar 2019, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite the Vegas veneer, there's an underlying punk energy, like a cocktail dress with a tattoo at the neckline, a combined act of tribute and subversion. [Feb 2019, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heavy at heart, but eminently hummable, Sunshine Rock is an affecting, uplifting set. [Mar 2019, p.92]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their traditional strengths remain, chiefly McVeigh's rich vocals and their knack of emphasising a simple hook with a cacophonous, multilayered production. [Mar 2019, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Anyone turned off by conspiracy theories may shudder, but allow Brown his free-your-mind gnostic-in-designer-streetwear stance and entertainment wins out. [Mar 2019, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In 2019 terms, then, it's a Village Green Preservation Society for people whose village is on the banks of the (alarmingly diminished) Niger River. [Feb 2019, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Less minimal folk this time, the title track and Holograms are particularly fulsome. [Mar 2019, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For all its skill you do miss Neville Staple's aggro, Roddy Radiation's punk-Chuck Berry guitars, and inevitably, Jerry Dammers' singular, maddening vision. [Mar 2019, p.88]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What some might reckon to be Drift Code's one significant weakness--that Webb is not a conventionally beauteous singer--is once more a strength. [Mar 2019, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gallipoli, recorded in Berlin and Puglia, is oddly unmoving, lacking range for all its seductive picturesque roaming. [Mar 2019, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a real bleakness here, so 7's motif is the confession that "I will always be alone," while the haunting Lisa Hannigan collaboration, Thousand, confronts Carney's grandmother's dementia. But there's optimism and strength too. [Mar 2019, p.92]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mollestad Thomassen's adoption of free-flowing soloing brings a sound less claustrophobic than before. Extraordinarily, in doing so, no power is lost. [Feb 2019, p.87]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The results sound authentic, melodic '60s girl-pop, if a bit thin. [Feb 2019, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nighttime Birds And Morning Stars doubles back on that trajectory [on 2018's Deeper Woods] and heads left, its eight enveloping essays featuring live 1-and 6-string guitars manipulated and looped into capacious soundscapes, only occasionally topped off by vocal salutes to nature and the mysterious heavens. [Feb 2019, p.87]
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