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
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yet for all Doseone's phantasmagoria and keening schizophrenia, there's a melodic richness that miraculously sculpts order out of the panicked disco chaos. [Aug 2012, p.85]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Theirs is a refreshing opaque, charmingly fumbling sound world. [Aug 2012, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken Brights is like a stroll along the beach at dusk; reflective, intimate, nostalgic and yet full of tomorrow's promise. [Aug 2012, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pure class. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He has created a wooded lattice of crackling guitar and dusky electronica. [Jun 2012, p.87]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What started out as playful downtime in the studio soon blossomed into a set of poetic urban folk songs. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There is less of the soundscaping and eerie atmospherics that made last year's X EP so entertainingly varied. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Today it sounds quintessentially McCartney. [Jun 2012, p.100]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The languid voiced one has rarely sounded better. [Jun 2012, p.100]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The unreleased material sustains earlier standards. [Jun 2012, p.100]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's still no room for the instrumental warm-up, so don't throw out that original bootleg. [Jun 2012, p.99]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's hot, loose, raucous, and retro in an overlapping-era kind of way. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a beauty, intimate songs and poetic lyrics, overdubbed with the Seattle-based Texan's own harmonies. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their fourth LP might be their best. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    He stomps or sways along in the nu Seattle folk/rockabilly grave-fun way displaying a sing-the-phonebook grace. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The songs are rarely more than threads of querulous melody and floaty notions. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Passage surges, subsides and enthralls like a Gothic Sigur Ros. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is a lot like Teen dream, but novelty is hardly the point: if Beach House are your type, then Bloom is unlikely to see the attraction wither. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The group's fourth album confirms that their default setting is a bit four-square nuts-and-bolts punk pop. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A gloriously unviable alternative to dullard R&B/X Factorism. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Charmingly eccentric...but spiky too. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It could all be so much MOR easy-on-the-earwash but Gardot's silken voice, musicality and knack for a telling lyric exude class. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smoke Fairies still possess great harmonies and sweet melodies, but they now come steel clad. [Jun 2012, p.92]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Toweringly camp singles like the slinky Perfect World and an album to enjoy on shuffle. [Jun 2012, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There are comeback and then there's the new Cult album opener. [Jun 2012, p.88]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The evidence here is that he's maturing nicely. [Jun 2012, p.88]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's accompanied with a swing and a fingerclick all Waterhouse's own and could turn out to be the soul album of 2012. [Jun 2012, p.88]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It is her once feral voice, now markedly more controlled, which proves most impressive here. [Jun 2012, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What could have easily sounded like an extended theme tune for Blackadder proves a classy and durable listen. [Jun 2012, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It can perfectly capture the film's conflicted moods of sadness and euphoria, but just as easily turn cloying and sickly. [Jun 2012, p.87]
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