Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,507 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:
10507 music reviews
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
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    Plenty of nightmare visions of Skid Row LA, but really no fun at all. [Jan 2013, p.93]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Surprises at every turn. [Jan 2013, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The naff raps and Auto-Tuned gloop can't spoil the addictive rush of the air-punching, get-pissed-destroy-a-bus-shelter anthems that abound here. [Jan 2012, p.93]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This succeeds chiefly because its remixers take such drastic liberties with the source material. [Jan 2013, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A major work. [Jan 2013, p.92]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This just might be their best work in 25 years. [Jan 2013, p.92]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If the initial listening experience challenges, long-term exposure unfurls Instrumental Tourist's full beauty. [Jan 2013, p.91]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is intelligent pop infested with tense, subterranean melodies. [Jan 2012, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! feels simultaneously enormous and tragic; the sound of victory, firmly set in the jaws of defeat. [Jan 2013, p.91]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] luscious layercake of flange and Echoplex. [Jan 2013, p.90]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The years haven't deadened Lucero's spirit: indeed, that experience only lends their ballads and brawlers a weightier punch. [Jan 2013, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a layer of gloss and artfulness here that makes Carry On more appealing than whiskery ideas of authenticity. [Jan 2013, p.88]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The dozen songs, recorded in one take, make for an uncomfortable but absorbing trip. [Jan 2013, p.92]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wrongtom's enthusiasm for collaboration is everywhere apparent on In East London's salute to the capital. [Nov 2012, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Born To Sing is a return to classic form. [Nov 2012, p.86]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tatum adds to the mix tropical pop textures, shimmery synth-pop gloss and twangy guitar solos that could melt hearts. [Oct 2012, p.88]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A lush, shimmering and fully immersive experience. [Nov 2012, p.90]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Life Is People is superb. [Sep 2012, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The four songs drawn from eco-themed album The Crying Light gain particular vitality.... The other major beneficiaries of Muhly and co.'s top notch orchestral work art Antony's earliest songs. [Aug 2012, p.82]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The hazy white noise loops of 2008's Black Sea stripped out in favour of choral drones and soothing gamelan chimes, perfectly suited to the film's meditative, valedictory tone. [Sep 2012, p.95]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If pulverizing female vocals and pop-rock guitar licks were your thing in 1995, you certainly won't be disappointed now. [Oct 2012, p.96]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [The album] is diverse in the songs' styles and themes. [Oct 2012, p.96]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From Clapton to cosmic rock, Afro-pop and experimenting with dizzying ease. [Oct 2012, p.96]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [ORO: Opus Alter] is more startling than the first [Oro: Opus Primum]. [Nov 2012, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Rambling, stoner guitar and drifting synths elevated by radiant percussion. [Dec 2012, p.96]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This enjoyable act of historical revisionism highlights the still definitive source material. [Nov 2012, p.100]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Omega Male doesn't stray too far from the day job(s) [of David Best of Fujiya & Miyagi and Sammy Rubin of Project Jenny, Project Jan]. [Dec 2012, p.94]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Only Pleasant Valley jars--the irony in Elling's voice is ladled on too heavily--but elsewhere marvel at a master at work. [Nov 2012, p.86]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [The lyrics] carry every once of experience and writerly imagination he's learned and earned in 76 years. [Dec 2012, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This set is sharper and fatter [than its debut].
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