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
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's their slickest yet. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Two dark, roiling 22-minute tracks that conjure up a world of nature in turmoil. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Barman was keep that Keep You Close had a warmer sound than the "very loud, in your face" approach of its predecessor... while we can just about give him the benefit if the doubt, it's not quite that straightforward. [Nov 2011, p.98]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Part band memoir, part call for artistic renewal, delivered via chiming rock anthemics with pop appeal. [Oct 2011, p.105]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Song for song, this is their finest to date. [Oct 2011, p.95]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The next must-have pastoral American sensation, from Oklahoma.[Sep 2011, p.97]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Prey] and the sprawling jazz'n'world beats suite of Magpie Music prove that there's still life left in DJ Food. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The basic Prinzhorn recipe - extra thick bass-lines and super-primitive stand-up drums, woven together with a lattice of spindly guitar and set off with livid bursts of call-and-response vocal -- remains largely unchanged. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Their] constant supersize-me approach is a bit exhausting, but few albums this year will strive this hard to entertain. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Makes for a cheeky, unerringly upbeat celebration of [London's] party scene. [Feb 2012, p. 94]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    [An] outstanding piece of work. [Feb 2012, p.92]
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    • 96 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Even though it'll never be fully completed, Smile is a welcome time capsule from an unrepeatable moment in popular culture. [Dec 2011, p.106]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Django Django confound because they sound gloriously, unpredictably new, but also recall past bands and sounds gone. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Though her fellow Willies may not possess her audience-pulling ability, they lack nothing in the way of talent. [Feb 2012, p.94]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is top-drawer pop, ambitious and thrillingly contemporary. [Feb 2012, p.94
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not yet a strength, lyrics probe the border between naive and trite. [Feb 2012, p.94]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    They're still best when the basic Paco Pena influences surface. [Feb 2012, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A few clunky lyrics take the shine off. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's hard not to wish for more. Or maybe less. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's good to hear him outfront, vivid, quirky, and unconfined. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Some of the best covers here are of less overtly politicized Dylan songs. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    U&I
    Matt Sims turns out to be the perfect complement to Leila's post-Moroder production pyrotechnics. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A cache of hissy, vivid, occasionally creepy but mostly sweetly touching brain pop that stands proudly alongside GBV's ragged former glories. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The lyrics' heavy-hearted take on relationships is more evidence of an astonishing maturity at play. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It stretches out the crashed edits of 20120's Suburban Tours, to something more diffuse and soulful. [Feb 2012, p.97]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His best yet. [Feb 2012, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a powerful performance of empathy and passion. [Feb 2012, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gradually swelling guitars, keyboards and massed backing-vocal "aaaahs" homogenise the sound while mostly confining Edwards' high voice to a rather inexpressive tone when her clear-cut words suggest snarl and sorrowing. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This curiously beautiful little album has retained the surreal, daydreamy quality and rustic chill of its predecessor, while adding a lot more warmth. [Feb 2012, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It wanders and drifts moodily now and then, but there also some strong songs. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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