Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,509 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:
10509 music reviews
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A fifth studio album filled with hooks aplenty and gonzoid fun. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their nostalgic lo-fi jangle and reverb surf guitars sound, weirdly, like a SoCal version of The Coral, with synths. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Distorted vocals, metallic clunks and disquieting sonic strangeness in spades. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Accomplished, shiny, but hard to get excited about. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It is impossible to wholly mess up a great pop songwriter's work; second, it is equally impossible to improve upon a perfectly crafted original recording. [Nov 2014, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An unsettling soundtrack of misanthropic club dystopias. [Nov 2014, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Freeman has emerged from Ween with his mojo intact, and less inclined to platy the joker this time around. [Nov 2014, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He's rarely sounded better. [Nov 2014, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not so bad as to frighten connoisseurs of, say, Dub Housing's post-industrial emptiness passages, but, yes, it's a "difficult" listen. [Nov 2014, p.98]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is a deeply odd but consistently compelling work. [Nov 2014, p.98]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A strand of misanthropy and musical bloody-mindedness makes for an uneven listen and feels like a band in transition. [Nov 2014, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The result is a sulky, euphoric blend of Ramones, Runaways and Cheap Trick, with maddening echoes of Iggy Pop, Ash and The Undertones. [Nov 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He serves us a telling portion of autobiographical, Nashville-flavoured Americana. [Nov 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stereolab fans will not be disappointed. [Nov 2014, p.95]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Many of the inventive musical excursions were improvised live in the studio. [Nov 2014, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Yet another acknowledgement of these two commanding talents. [Nov 2014, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's knowingly throwaway exhilaration all the way. [Nov 2014, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hardcore Julius fans might recognise old tunes but the London-based musicians have given them all a fresh coat while the boss blows up a storm. [Nov 2014, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For all its ambitious and admirable wilfulness, the sound of Casablancas playing in his sandpit is still an acquired taste. [Nov 2014, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 75-year-old's first album in six years is both tough and tender. [Nov 2014, p.93]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A soothing balm in anxious times. [Nov 2014, p.93]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is one of her most wide-ranging and satisfying collections. [Nov 2014, p.93]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Niagara is a remarkable debut. [Nov 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Inspiral Carpets sounds like the band did back in 1989 on their Dung 4 demo. [Nov 2014, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    PlectrumElectrum, the band set, although rockier and fuller, is just as random [as Art Official Age]. [Nov 2014, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [A] confusing, sprawling grab-bag. [Nov 2014, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hither he thunders, with an excellent 11-track battery co-produced by super-sticksman Jim Keltner in Memphis. [Nov 2014, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    NehruvianDoom might be slight, but it deftly whets the appetite for more. [Nov 2014, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though Blue Water is sunk by its stilted piano arpeggios, Lady, the record's other piano ballad, has real substance. [Nov 2014, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A powerful mix of dramatic, slow-moving sound and Walker melodies and narratives. [Nov 2014, p.99]
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