Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,504 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:
10504 music reviews
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Swinging, hollar-along opener 'False Jesii Part 2' and the hilariously literal 'Request For Masseuse' are sardonic odes to indolence and pain relief respectively, while deadpan monologues 'Spent' and 'Goodbye (Hair)' reflect on time's inexorable passage with amp-crushing poignancy. [Sep 2009, p.95]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Luminous Night reflects the yin-yang duality of a player whose axework has feulled Both Comets On Fire's freakout euphoria and the post-apocaltptic spok of Current 93. [Oct 2009, p.101]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Led by spectral-voiced dreamer Jannis Makrigiannis, they have made a desolately pretty debut, its tangible, space and reverb-worn expansiveness conjuring vast Nordic skies. [Dec 2009, p. 92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Broken repeats the team-up, but in wider-screen yet, fully evocative of its genesis in the sprawl of Los Angeles. [Sep 2009, p.95]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The thick strings lead to fumbles, as imagination is constrained by technique. [Sep 2009, p.104]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you open your album with a song, 'Hard Times,' which rails against the mediocrity of the modern world, it might be worth ensuring it isn't the only tune out of 14 that sticks in the memory. [Jul 2009, p.105]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In short, this is exceptionally good contemporary pop. [Jun 2009, p.109]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Middleton here surely approaches full brilliance. [July 2009, p.96]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    She's clearly still diamond sharp, with a larynx to match. [Aug 2009, p.103]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    His nicotine-gritted , hurt-strained voice finds a honeyed foil in Dave Amels' swirling organ, while rhythm section David Wayne Gay and Lance Willie provide R&B warmth and swinging, bar-band stomp. [Dec 2009, p. 96]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The earth doesn't move, but sands shift seductively. [Sep 2009, p.102]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Yacht are a band that know how to party; they just need to lock it down. [Oct 2009, p.108]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You might even give it a cuddle because it delivers the kind of ultra-friendly music that sits up and in a cutesy manner demands such attention. [Fall 2009, p.93]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's the songs on which she distances herself from that occasionally tiresome persona where she really shines. [Aug 2009, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Much of The Ruminant Band comes sunny side up. [Sep 2009, p.90]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Drawn to look within, you run into the smart opacity of Reitherman's lyrics. [Sep 2009, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A newly dynamic SAG here build on the intuitive eclecticism of last year's "59:59" debut. [Nov 2009, p.100]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Of the various sidelines spinning off Vancouver psych-rockers Black Mountains, this is the prettiest. [Sep 2009, p.102]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The former Vincent Frank has filled his debut with a hard-to-stomach collection of shiny pop tunes floating between Alphabeat's sing-along-a-showtunes and Mika's falsetto muggging. [Aug 2009, p.96]
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    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    There's nothing here to advance the small-scale acclaim gathered by their debut. [Aug 2009, p.95]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For Radio Wars, producer Dan Grech-Marguerat has opened out their sound, but the atmosphere of intrigue remains. [Apr 2009, p.98]
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    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    McClure has since retracted his retirement outburst, and rightly so: a third attempt might make him a contender. [Aug 2009, p.95]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The music and mood's emotional connection makes the Furnaces a band to love at last. [Sep 2009, p.95]
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a strangely stilted approach on songs. [Sep 2009, p.92]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The constant, keenig purity of Ohiona Molina's vocals save all this from becoming too relentlessly dispiriting. [Aug 2009, p.104
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The strongest parts of this record have a yearning, almost devotional quality which can unlock something in the patient listeners. [Aug 2009, p.96]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [It is] a testament to Hunter's ongoing vim. [Sep 2009, p.96]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mostly these provoke wows and crikeys of crooked pleasure. [Jan 2010, p.93]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The core idea brings a bright focus and forward movement to their gummy, ambrosial stoner sound, adding bright melody and fairytale zing to these end-of-summer tales of beachbound escape and smalltown torpor. [Nov 2009, p.101]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As you hit repeat to hear Horehound for the umpteenth time, what's remarkable is that these 11 tunes, with their sonic curveballs and causl vim, suggest that a second Dead Weather LP would be almost as welcome as the White Stripes' seventh. [Jul 2009, p.90]
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