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
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A selection of his own trademark cliches. [Oct 2014, p.90]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's unequivocally the guitarist's most cohesive and satisfying artistic statement yet. [Oct 2014, p.91]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Breaks is an album of staggering neo-classic rock ambitions. [Oct 2014, p.86]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is the most uncompromising album of the year. [Oct 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's still precious little here that's not been said before with more originality. [Oct 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If your perfect musical Venn diagram contains Oneohtrix Point Never, Machinedrum and Terry Riley, Suicideyear will satisfy your equation. [Oct 2014, p.93]
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    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    On this recording--as well as his body of work--Trane proved that music is the superior language. And that there is only one John Coltrane. [Oct 2014, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sweet, but not quite satisfying. [Oct 2014, p.90]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the heartfelt lyrics, however, that will keep you coming back to this album time and time again. [Oct 2014, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If Lerche lack Beck's nous, he makes up for it with a cavalier freedom. [Oct 2014, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A meld of punk brio and grunge licks. [Oct 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    James Brooks conjures the motorik rhythm and magnificent vistas. [Oct 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The immediacy and bare-wire fizz suit his lyrical candour. [Oct 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The restless thump of Out For The West stands out. [Oct 2014, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album isn't defined by what is on the record but what's missing, and sometimes less is just, well, less. [Oct 2014, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A riotous union of scabrous '60s punk, resonant surf licks and grimy, narcotic song-craft. [Oct 2014, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If quality control on Sukierae sometimes sags amid the fecundity, all is forgotten when Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Brooklyn-based new lights Lucius help gild country-folk standouts Wait For Love and Nobody Dies Anymore with calm-yet-striking backing vocals. [Oct 2014, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's much of Lawrence's beguiling attention to detail present here. [Oct 2014, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Things work best when the musical surroundings match their respective vocal style and they create something resembling the cinematic edge of Johnny Jewel's Chromatics. [Oct 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a musical round-trip calculated to delight anyone who has previously enjoyed Can or Amon Duul's loose-limbed walks on the cod-tribal wild side--and enlighten anyone who hasn't. [Oct 2014, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Basement Jaxx's energy and vision appears to be undiminished. [Oct 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tricky may not be reinventing the wheel, but his focus is sharper than ever. [Oct 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A more elemental approach to dance music. [Oct 2014, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [MC Taylor's] voice is a gorgeous, low-slung burr, his melodies are fireside-warm, his restless imagination follows the lineage of Southern literary giant Eudora Welty and the collective chops, overseen by long-time studio accomplice Scott Hirsch, are impeccable. [Oct 2014, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's an even more pop-centric prism of West Coast folky radiance. [Oct 2014, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A great country music record. Nothing less. [Oct 2014, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a parade of warhorses and they sometimes ride a little wearily, but Winter pepped their steps by four-handed guitar shootouts with Eric Clapton on Don't Want No Woman and Ben Harper in Can't Hold Out. [Oct 2014, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some are enchanting. [Oct 2014, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An Earth reborn, then. [Oct 2014, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For every two triumphs there's a setback like the overwrought glitchy electro Eat Rich, yet it's hard to deny the imagination that fuels these flights of fancy. [Oct 2014, p.90]
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