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
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Ghost In Daylight is a memory-haunted journey through the dead voices and deep narratives of Englands lost; broadside ballads culled from earth and sea. [Jun 2012, p.87]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This sensitive tribute lingers. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not exactly left field, but on the right track. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Boys Don't Cry is an unashamed stopgap. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    These bedroom demo-sounding efforts are primitive. {Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From the second opener Get Got's frantic arpeggiations synths kick-in there's little let-up on a mind-mugging set so fresh even Delia Smith can't test its flavour. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is SMD's deepest, moodiest record to date. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    You're left with the impression that Lower Dens are both big sounding and very clever. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    It's difficult to make either narrative or poetic sense of, well, what she's on about. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    OFWGKTA are talented, if not as ground-breaking as they think. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His craftsman's melodiousness and honest voice add balm and balance. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Segall's charms are as abundant as his releases: may his well never run dry. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bright, snappy and instantly infectious hooks. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Too much of this album, while pleasant enough, melts into a low-key blur of whispered, introspective nothings. [Jun 2012, p.85]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is adventurous and totally mesmerising. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beal's vocals shift from Screaming Jay Hawkins wails to the lo-fi R&B melancholy of Cody ChesnuTT, while his chattering snake times rhythms summon up the ghosts of Moondog and Sun Ra, taking things to another level entirely. [Jun 2012, p.83]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They haven't really been missed, yet it's good to have them back. [Jun 2012, p.83]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's still summer music, but The Only Place captures that moment when it's time to wrap a cardigan around your shoulders against the chill. [Jun 2012, p.83]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spektor delivers everything with such guileless brio that you never notice the join [between troubadour style to chrome-clean hip hop].
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The grain and gravitas of Jones's voice is perfectly suited to this diverse material. [Jun 2012, p.82]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Repeated plays will bear deep rewards confirming both protagonist' growing stature in modern music. [Jun 2012, p.82]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A piquant appetizer for the impending movie re-boot then, and a balm to those who still wake up screaming because of Stallone's 1995 film. [Jun 2012, p.82]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a labyrinthine 64-minute journey, bound together by a group identity that gains clarity with every listen. [Jun 2012, p.80]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As musical hybrids go, it's a fascinating and highly addictive one. [May 2012, p.93]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    B-sides included here aren't without their charms but the album's genius clearly lay in distilling only the finest of Mould's new material into a powerful, singular statement. [Jul 2012, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's the resulting acoustic simplicity of his songwriting that makes this collection such a treat. [Jul 2012, p.101]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Decca set allows insight into King's working methods. [Jul 2012, p.99]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This absorbing new venture is essentially a set of unaccompanied musical dialogues between the two veterans. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It is William's ever-distinctive voice, allied to a line in unfailingly attractive material that provides this release with a patina of timelessness. [Jul 2012, p.82]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Gentle Stream] is gorgeous sun-dappled psych, crossing the lighter side of paisley underground with Nick Drake's dreaminess. [Dec 2011, p.93]
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