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
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Blur 21's extraordinary warts'n'all scope makes its subject's odyssey momentous and tangible. [Aug 2012, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These songs sound like old country classics. [Aug 2012, p.96]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's country stoicism, sentimentality and sparkling sadness on the songs. [Aug 2012, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ethereal snatches of long-lost voices from old 78s, stentorian tones of TS Eliot and--on Richardson Road--Robert Wyatt adds plenty to this warm-hearted electronica. [Aug 2012, p.87]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's Thornton Wilder's Our Town divested of optimism, yet retaining that play's twilight feel. [Aug 2012, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is Hogan's first solo album in 11 years and her best. [Aug 2012, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MOB sound as electrifying, as curious and as awake as they ever have. [Aug 2012, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It buries some strong writing, singing and potential. [Aug 2012, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    For the most part his tribute to Duke Ellington works in the way that should keep purist onside. [Aug 2012, p.96]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This transatlantic convergence of innovative, virtuosic minds is a sublime advert for the possibilities of improves post classical composition. [Aug 2012, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It seems more about Africa's love affair with US urbana, and so less endearing. [Aug 2012, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unity Band is now a scintillating platform for Metheny's fretboard wizardry. [Aug 2012, p/94]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    La Havas sets herself apart from the coffee shop set with a rough-hewn edge. [Aug 2012, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though no Pet Sound, this album, at its best so wistfully reliving out golden yesterdays, ranks up there with Today! [Aug 2012, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With the excellent Roots backing her, she recasts many of the dominant black music sounds of 30 or so years ago on a set of songs which address concerns that are clearly in the here-and-now. [Aug 2012, p.92]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It signals the charged completion of a circuit, the final bridging of a gap between conductors. [Aug 2012, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    WIXIW's pop is still complex and affecting and of beguiling substance. [Aug 2012, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The former [true gems] are plenty, the latter [filler are] few. [Aug 2012, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Swing Lo works best at arm's length, admired like a diamond rather than held like a carbon-based life-form. [Aug 2012, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When it works, it's astonishing, but his hit rate is middling compared with erstwhile sparring partner El-P. [Aug 2012, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Danger et al stamp their authority on the genre, with a collision of claustrophobic lyrics, charm and playful innocence. [Aug 2012, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The album is at its rawest and most dynamic on such garage tracks as I Gotta Get Shorty Out Of Jail and One-Eyed Jack. [Aug 2012, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fortunately, it manages to hang together in a way that suggest steamy nights out in the city with Massive Attack. [Aug 2012, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An extraordinary, multi-layered, attention-grabbing record. [Aug 2012, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He hops from one musical lilypad to the next--arguably a few too many for comfort. [Aug 2012, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lewis hasn't topped 2010's masterful Forget, but he has proved it was no fluke. [Aug 2012, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The spring in their step has a dangerously sharp point to increase Never's allure. [Aug 2012, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The somnambulant nihilism of his one-trick flow and the risible machismo of choruses quickly wear out SpaceGhostPurrp's welcome. [Aug 2012, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Urban Turban is another irresistible Cornershop mash-up. [Aug 2012, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The stylistic shifts mean The Tarnished Gold doesn't hang together--it lacks the luster of real gold. [Aug 2012, p.85]
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