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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her voice is pure enough and boasts the necessary dash of grit for her to rise above mere MOR blandness. [Apr 2012, p.84]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    She gets into her stride with French electronic maestro Martin Solveig. [May 2012, p.84]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stunning... a highly-textured, invigorating adventure in sound. [Mar 2012, p.94]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This eclectic offering confirms that the trio's music is an unclassifiable meld of idioms that includes strong rock and pop influences. [Mar 2012, p.92]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's as complete as any Floyd completist could hope for. [Apr 2012, p.101]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rich and radio-friendly pop. [Apr 2012, p.101]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A beautiful, eerie thing. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With Audience of One he applies his mastery of both instruments [drums and guitar] to a surprisingly diverse four-part suite. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although darkness suffuses Narrow, the rising peaks of its songs and the dramatic arrangements Plaschg frames them in, its intimacy affects. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their performance here has an audible sizzle. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the most compelling [albums of his 15-year career]. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Throughout, Ranaldo and Nels Cline build up layers of eloquent, electrifying guitar.... Satisfying. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    White's devastation lends poignancy to tracks ... that skip with country celebration even as he chokes on the words. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They sound more and more as if they've found a sound that they can all their own. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Three or four candidates for an updated greatest hits package is not a bad hit rate. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With a gift for creating memorable melodies allied with a strong storytelling narrative, he comes across like a sophisticated jazz version of Bill Withers. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's no hallmark of originality or pushing envelopes, nor any sense of collaboration between two distinct talents creating more than a sum of their parts. [Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [An] equally engaged, energised follow-up [to 2010's Mshini Wam].[Apr 2012, p.94]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Downtempo it may be, but joyous rather than dark. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A snapshot of the music driving Europe's cooler clubs. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fin
    His slow-burning music ... has serious cross-over potential. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Soulful, moving music. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here Kirby lets the sad beauty of his source - Schubert's Winterreise - bleed through, as if summoning up the solitary ghosts of the German composer's most desolate work. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's that innate ability with a tune which separates Miike Snow from common or garden pop varieties. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It take a rare confidence and skill to throw a million (roughly) ideas into an album and make it sound not just coherent but as good as this one. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A work of transcendent pop beauty that finally explains the idea of "ekstasis" by leaving the listener beside themselves, in a state of rapturous joy. [Apr 2012, p.91]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ambitious, soulful and joyous. [Apr 2012, p.90]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pale and pensive indie-pop, cooled to a chill, with [lead singer] Nouvion floating over a similarly tranquil, dreamy wash, like an American Sundays. [Apr 2012, p. 90]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The [7-year] hiatus hasn't impaired the band's vivid country-gothic grandeur one iota. [Apr 2012, p. 90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Spalding's improvised ensemble pieces put pay to the tittle-tattle about jazz being dead. It is very much alive. [Apr 2012, p.90]
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