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
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Memories Are Now, she understands exactly when to use the bridle and bit on these wild, wise songs. [Mar 2017, p.98]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The 12 songs here are mostly wild, loud, anarchic and irreverent but hardly ever subdued. [Feb 2017, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everywhere ageless rock'n'roll brio comes freighted with careworn sagacity. [Mar 2017, p.93]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If nothing else, this yearning, realpolitik-infused road movie of an album is one to point to the next time somebody pronounces there are no decent protest songs any more. [Mar 2017, p.92]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Elaborate motorik grooves, dense, post-rock complexity and intricate electronic experimentalism. [Mar 2017, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A music from within. [Mar 2017, p.93]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hypnotic channels occasionally, degrade into ruts, but more often this is a fabulous freakout. [Mar 2017, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pissed Jeans might deal in uncompromising, near-unlistenable noise, but in a world gone increasingly crazy, their scourging hi-jinks make more and more sense. [Mar 2017, p.94]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Black Star Riders have delivered a record befitting their pedigree. [Mar 2017, p.94]
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This short but sweet EP is her love letter to the Lone Star state. [Mar 2017, p.93]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A crop of high quality songs and instrumentals played with dazzling finger-picking. [Mar 2017, p.90]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their natural domain is bouncing festival stages, but, with pounding beats and attitude, this is the perfect way to usher people there. [Mar 2017, p.94]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sports is more circumspect and subtle. Yet when the hooks of White Pebbles, Bad Rockets or Syncing In slyly take hold, the effect is indelible. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mehldau sounds at home on folksy rambles like Tallahassee Junction while Thile imbues the jazz standard I Cover The Waterfront with a desolate tone, his plaintive vocals accompanied by suspenseful mandolin tremolos. [Feb 2017, p.90]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These are top space-jams. [Feb 2017, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Undoubtedly one of his strongest. [Feb 2017, p.97]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sampha's solo debut sits somewhere between the ghostly avant-soul if Frank Ocean and James Blake's emotionally wrought electronica. [Mar 2017, p.90]
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Understated, lovely. [Feb 2017, p.98]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    When the album's latter half descends into cluttered abstraction, Delicate Steve measures up as disappointingly slight. [Mar 2017, p.96]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rueful, ruminative and ultimately hypnotic, Garden Of Ashes sings a welcome blues for the coming apocalypse. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Annual waft of immersive drones, synthscaped romance, glassy yogic remixes. [Feb 2017, p.99]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lush and emotive. [Feb 2017, p.99]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jardin retain the EP's satisfyingly minimalist approach. [Feb 2017, p.92]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Ultimately Prisoner is tethered by sturdy, familiar images of tightropes and trains. [Mar 2017, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the year's best. Which year? Any year. [Mar 2017, p.92]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] disarming, relatable debut. [Mar 2017, p.97]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It feels more like 10 individual songs than an album. [Mar 2017, p.93]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Thoughtfulness never rocked so hard. [Mar 2017, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Fictions is more upbeat in tempo and outlook an sounds like a band given a jolting shot of B12. [Mar 2017, p.88]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The faithful can still but with confidence--these are polished performances--but others may weary of a long journey round past glories. [Feb 2017, p.96]
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