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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This fifth and self-produced eponymous LP restates their collective intent with the hip-hop groove and soaring chorus of Gold Rush, the breezy drivetime rock of Old Tape (tackling persistent self-criticism) and the Judee Sill verses of Mad Love. [Jun 2025, p.80]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With its silvery guitar and tentative vision of collective power, the title track also offers a means of escape. It frames an album that, in its own determined way, boldly meets the moment. [Jun 2025, p.83]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Clinic fans will dig this. [May 2025, p.93]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the jubilant reach and dynamite in the details that make The Scholars a rock opera worthy of the form. [Jun 2025, p.85]
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the vast common ground that they delicately negotiate and improvise in which makes Totality so enthralling, so satisfying. [Jun 2025, p.89]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Idol's rebel yell still has snarl and charisma, but some of these songs (Wildside; Too Much Fun) feel like pop-punk makeweights included to get Dream Into It up to 35 minutes. [Jun 2025, p.82]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Eliot's songwriting, always more Jacques Brel than Jam, has palpably matured. [Jun 2025, p.84]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Colossal. [Apr 2025, p.85]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Best of all is Politics Don Expose Them, which hits hard yet swings on great horn lines and a catchy call-and-response chorus. [Jun 2025, p.88]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Funny, bleak, cathartic and brave, with a winning redemption arc, in all but design Weirdo is a blues album - transforming unbearable pain into deeply affecting, original art. [Jun 2025, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You can't pin them down, but there lies the joy. [Jun 2025, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hieroglyphic Being aims to take you to a higher state of consciousness. There's plenty of fun to be had there. [May 2025, p.91]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Somehow, he and producer Jake Davis have conjured an utterly compelling account of Tyler's lurching mental health. [Jun 2025, p.87]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's something of the counsellor's couch about these songs, a record that trembles between acute self-awareness, self-laceration and self-preservation in its quest for "the deep blue OK". [Jun 2025, p.82]
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ever predictable, funny and imaginatively constructed, Viagr Aboys is a total gas. [Jun 2025, p.80]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unpredictable and stylistically chameleonic, Deerhoof's clamorous noise and freak-out rifferama seems perfectly attuned to current world flux. Still there is joy here too. [Jun 2025, p.80]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of the most minimal yet complex, heavy but refined music going. [Jun 2025, p.86]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultimately, this is music with therapeutic benefits, for the listener as much as for its creator. [Jun 2025, p.89]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Blind Boys Of Alabama and Norah Jones pops up in Sweet Things Just For You, but no guest can overshadow June's sweet and salty tones. [Jun 2025, p.89]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vernon continues to deal in emotionally heavy music operating on the cutting edge of tech. Everything ID Peaceful Love is the standout. [Jun 2025, p.87]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They range from the short and comic (Sweep Piece is the sound of producer Robin McGinley brushing a room for two minutes) to longer, studio-based ensemble performances that are often surprisingly beautiful. [May 2025, p.92]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stygian Waves has a pleasing surety of direction. [Jun 2025, p.84]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is a record so euphoric and emotionally direct that understanding the words is not a prerequisite. [Jun 2025, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An album for banjo/fiddle fans and music history buffs. [May 2025, p.84]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The results are as dreamy and swirling as Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips, with Smith's unworldly vocals floating over the top. [May 2025, p.86]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What might be his [Zac Condon's] most beautiful record to date, particularly the instrumental numbers. [May 2025, p.88]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    More a shiny recalibration of TVOTR's high-density art rock than a radical restart, especially of their more electronic, funky and pop-facing side. [May 2025, p.90]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A gentle, spartan album overflowing with straight-forward songs and harmony vocals, which evoke Emmylou Harris as much as Margo Price. [May 2025, p.87]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A radiant light cutting through the gloom, illuminating icy drone, crepuscular ambient and reverb-heavy beatless trips. [May 2025, p.91]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His voice is magnificent, the songs simple and moving. .... Wonderful. [May 2025, p.84]