Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,507 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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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: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,861 out of 10507
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10507
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Negative: 34 out of 10507
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reviews
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Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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Two dark, roiling 22-minute tracks that conjure up a world of nature in turmoil. [Feb 2012, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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Part band memoir, part call for artistic renewal, delivered via chiming rock anthemics with pop appeal. [Oct 2011, p.105]- Mojo
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Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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The next must-have pastoral American sensation, from Oklahoma.[Sep 2011, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Feb 10, 2012 -
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[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]- Mojo
Posted Feb 1, 2012 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Feb 1, 2012 -
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[Their] constant supersize-me approach is a bit exhausting, but few albums this year will strive this hard to entertain. [Feb 2012, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Feb 1, 2012 -
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Makes for a cheeky, unerringly upbeat celebration of [London's] party scene. [Feb 2012, p. 94]- Mojo
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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Django Django confound because they sound gloriously, unpredictably new, but also recall past bands and sounds gone. [Feb 2012, p.98]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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Though her fellow Willies may not possess her audience-pulling ability, they lack nothing in the way of talent. [Feb 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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This is top-drawer pop, ambitious and thrillingly contemporary. [Feb 2012, p.94- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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Not yet a strength, lyrics probe the border between naive and trite. [Feb 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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They're still best when the basic Paco Pena influences surface. [Feb 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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A few clunky lyrics take the shine off. [Feb 2012, p.95]- Mojo
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Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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It's good to hear him outfront, vivid, quirky, and unconfined. [Feb 2012, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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Some of the best covers here are of less overtly politicized Dylan songs. [Feb 2012, p.95]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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Matt Sims turns out to be the perfect complement to Leila's post-Moroder production pyrotechnics. [Feb 2012, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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The lyrics' heavy-hearted take on relationships is more evidence of an astonishing maturity at play. [Feb 2012, p.97]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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It stretches out the crashed edits of 20120's Suburban Tours, to something more diffuse and soulful. [Feb 2012, p.97]- Mojo
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Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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This is a powerful performance of empathy and passion. [Feb 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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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]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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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
Posted Jan 31, 2012 -
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It wanders and drifts moodily now and then, but there also some strong songs. [Feb 2012, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2012