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
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This eponymous offering once again demonstrates his effortless, and seemingly innate, ability to make the familiar feel fresh and enticing. [Feb 2017, p.90]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A rump-shaking whole. [Feb 2017, p.99]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The DIY disco maverick channels vintage R&B and thrilling dancefloor pop of an '80s Madonna/Janet/TLC stripe, in a voice that's crystal cool in up and downtempo settings. [Feb 2017, p.99]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's dense and intense digital compositions enter your headspace with stealth or, at other times, occupy it with an assault of breathless beats. [Feb 2017, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stellular serves up a lovely, liberated tonic in dark times. [Feb 2017, p.93]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This follow-up is more considered, though occasionally suffers from one too many mid-paced hard rock standards. [Feb 2017, p.90]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Michael Chapman sounds just fine exactly where he is, deep in the knowledge of what is coming, but finally aware of how far he's come. [Feb 2017, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Despite the presence of a few additional collaborators, much in Half Japanese-world is as anticipated. [Feb 2017, p.94]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Closure is more substantial than that implies, carrying on the more direct approach of 2005's Disaffected. [Feb 2017, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Retour Au Champs De Mars oscillates malevolently with throaty, Death Star bass synths; like much of Iris, it uses a covert approach to win you over. [Feb 2017, p.95]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here the formula is still fresh and potent, with punchy production, twisting song structures and sweeping choruses. [Feb 2017, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This covers collection moves with mysterious grace. [Feb 2017, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It ranks right up there with 2010's exquisite Black Sands. [Feb 2017, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    From the spooked synth attack of hellish 12-minute opener A Natural Satellite inwards, they do little to dispel those fears, robust drums and dirty organs underscoring the swaggering menace of Grace Jones and The Murder of Maria Marten. [Jan 2017, p.98]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remarkably moving. [Jan 2017, p.104]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Languid piano, sleazy Rickenbacker, intellectual Lothario. Lethal. [Oct 2016, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An unexpected sound-palette of smouldering beauty, often lit up by sumptuous orchestral arrangements from one Sebastian Hoffmann. [Jan 2017, p.101]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Still crossing the many rivers of doubt, hope and despair that have faced him since his American Music Club days, Mark Eitzel's tenth solo album can nonetheless throw out surprises. [Feb 2017, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Trials & truths is a diffuse experience. [Feb 2017, p.94]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The jazz roots of George Clinton's Mothership, Ra's visionary music now sounds simultaneously joyous and bereft, a possible future now consigned to the past. [Feb 2017, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Patchy seven-song set. [Feb 2017, p.105]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When they crank out breathless melodic euphoria like Darkened Rings, originality seems a pointless objective anyway. [Feb 2017, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Soft Error's background in film and TV composition is the foundation for the opulent, operatic electronica on Mechanism. [Feb 2017, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For his fourth album, which fuses poo, techno and retro-futuristic disco with deftness, direction and a thick slice of humour. [Feb 2017, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The eight-song concoction is a joyful, lush and fittingly grandiose suite. [Feb 2017, p.93]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are 14 songs here, without chaff. [Jan 2017, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He's at his best, however, when he takes it all very seriously indeed. [Feb 2017, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His tendency to overemote can prove distracting. [Feb 2017, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Future Politics' galvanised vision takes myriad forms. [Feb 2017, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    I See You is more nuanced and upbeat than their previous records but, perhaps shrewdly, it enhances their blueprint rather than completely redrawing it. [Feb 2017, p.91]