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
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Caramel consists of weightless, non-danceable funk, drifting in from the edge of consciousness like a vaporised, enervated Scritti Politti. [Dec 2013, p.89]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The diversity and quality of his songwriting should be even harder to ignore on this second. [Dec 2013, p.84]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On Antiphon, Midlake sound like a band unburdened and read to fly. [Dec 2013, p.82]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the most characterful voices of recent times--one minute suggesting folk rock paradise, the next Macbeth. [Dec 2013, p.90]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These Wooden Shjips, however unchanging, even conservative, are becoming increasingly irresistible. [Nov 2013, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The latest set of back-porch ballads, junkshop country hymns and chiming indie rock--all born of his beloved Arizona desert. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Kilo, Vainio returns to sub-bass layers and industrial scree to create a dark minimal techno with strange internal narrative. [May 2013, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This 20-song set delivers high octane versions of their greatest hits. [Nov 2013, p.85]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [The 50 outtakes] are not fore the casual listener.... The big find is the rambunctious Mardi Gras party-style I Shall Sing, a small 1974 hit for Art Garfunkel but never released by Morrison until now; Van unsurprisingly give the tune a more soulful treatment. [Nov 2013, p.98]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Beta Band made some dazzling music throughout their seven-year lifespan. [Nov 2013, p.101]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 28 masters perfectly preserve the fight-or-flight cortisone power and tired, forlorn grandeur of late period Elvis. But it's the 27 outtakes that truly startle. [Nov 2013, p.98]
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Most of us missed the party 42 years ago, but now it's boxed for our infinite pleasure. [Nov 2013, p.99]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Albini's hardline technical/philosophical missive is the tastiest 'discovery' in this inevitable 20th anniversary box set--tastier, indeed than any of the unheard music. [Nov 2013, p.101]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her rich, soulful vocal sounds wonderful on the darker material. [Oct 2013, p.98]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Fratellis' third album is simple and uncomplicated. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As soulful and vital a British jazz record as there's been in a while. [Nov 2013, p.89]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Songs that initially resemble formless dirges, gradually reveal hidden depths, thanks to Desertshore's engaging backing and Kozelek's ever intriguing lyrics. [Nov 2013, p.84]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In surpassing her debut, Agnes Obel has confirmed hat she is in it for the long haul. [Nov 2013, p.86]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Currie ceding power to him [producer Mike McCarthy] has worked a treat. [Nov 2013, p.90]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warble Womb offers those addled young whipper-snappers a timely masterclass in how to keep the right balance between relentlessness and variation. [Nov 2013, p.86]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    K2O
    A wonderfully mellifluous, atmospheric affair. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spare bayou mirage score for Green's newie. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Stunning in parts. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's a Prince influence, but little real passion. [Nov 2013, p.94]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Enjoyable, though less revelatory, Arcade Fire's Games Without Frontiers, Joseph Arthur's agonised Shock The Monkey and Lou Reed's Jokily grindscaping Solsbury Hill contrast with Paul Simon's restrained Biko. [Nov 2013, p.91]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A ferocious blast of distorted guitar riffs, skronking sax and explosive testifying. [Nov 2013, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Every one of its 15 tracks brings something new to the table. [Nov 2013, p.90]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What makes the album itself addictive is Isbell's fusing of gothic Memphis blues and Nashville tenderness. [Nov 2013, p.90]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pop, but still an album for reflection. [Nov 2013, p.89]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For all their assiduous construction and heartfelt subject matter, Sheff's songs struggle to match the abundant hook-line quotient of his youthful influences and inspiration. [Nov 2013, p.88]
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