Mojo's Scores
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For 10,504 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 |
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Positive: 6,858 out of 10504
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10504
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Negative: 34 out of 10504
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This is fresh music, making exciting shapes with primitive resources, and though some will find Longstreth's keening bleat and bravura deconstructions show-offy there are constant flowerings of devastating prettiness, and when all the singers blare in unison the beauty they summon is almost overwhelming. [Jul 2009, p.100]- Mojo
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Almost three decades into their journey, age has only emboldened them. [Jul 2009, p.99]- Mojo
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The result is Placebo's best album since 1998's magisterial "Without You I'm Nothing." [Jul 2009, p.97]- Mojo
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This is an album that demands careful attention before its meanings and musing reveal themselves, blending apocalyptic visions with occluded celebration. [Sep 2009, p.91]- Mojo
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The results so far, as on 2006's martial piledriver "Empire," have both been levitating and gut-level, as befits a group who count DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing" and Oasis's "Definitely Maybe" among their musical epiphanies. These same virtues are all over "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum." [Jul 2009, p.93]- Mojo
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Oh My God, Charlie Darwin may well be the second best cabin-in-winter indie album ever made. [Jul 2009, p.96]- Mojo
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The resulting album is, as expected, old school chest-beating man-size heavy rock. [Jul 2009, p.104]- Mojo
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The album has its moments, but you really couldn't call it the main event. [Jun 2009, p.99]- Mojo
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Costello has again hauled material from diverse regions of his writing life into a strangely cohesive cornucopia. [Jul 2009, p.96]- Mojo
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Although every other verse here is filled by paradiddles, polyrhythms and wilfully complex time signatures, DMB's ear for a tune at least provides us with some fine choruses. [Jul 2009, p.94]- Mojo
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Lean and timeless sounding, it's also as truthful as Everett's sobering autobiography, Things The Grandchildren Should Know. [Jun 2009, p.104]- Mojo
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The sound is excellent, especially considering the age and the state of technology of some of the recordings. The songs, too, are invariably excellent. [Jul 2009, p.111]- Mojo
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Rancid's strength is singer Tim Armstrong's touching depictions of the world; from his heritage on 'East Bay Night' to swimming through the devastation of hurricane-stricken New Orleans and on his brother's time in Iraq on the acoustic 'Civilain Ways.'- Mojo
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The going is initially uncertain, but by 'Turn It On,' space and size begin to shift and singer Alex Kapranos shimmers in and out of the mix. [Jul 2009, p.106]- Mojo
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Grace only had 10 songs, and though it seems tiresome to sit through multiple live versions of 'So Real,' the title song, 'Hallelujah' et al, it's not. [Aug 2009, p.118]- Mojo
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If his lyrics do have merit Chabot obscures them with generic electro-riffs. [Aug 2009, p.98]- Mojo
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Awesome in scope and execution, it's an album that's ultimately easier to admire than it is to love. [Jun 2009, p.108]- Mojo
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The assured Eating Us proves that distractions aren't necessary. [Jul 2009, p.93]- Mojo
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Beautifully arranged, its four pieces amplifiy Sunn O)))'s signature drone rumble. [Jun 2009, p.96]- Mojo
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What they bring to the table is a living, breathing sence of the organic. [June 2009, p.109]- Mojo
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The exuberance and delight in the newness and rightness of it all is captivating. [Jul 2009, p.107]- Mojo
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The Glass Bead Game sees him broadening his palette to even greater effect. [Aug 2009, p.96]- Mojo
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And while White Rabbits' wild Americana and freaked folk makes for a varied and vivid sprawl of sounds, their knack for addictive melody and honed songcraft delivers a beguiling, coherent and memorable whole. [Feb 2010, p. 97]- Mojo
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Gone is the Fisher Price-redolent instrumentation and found--sounds, in their place something more measured and radio friendly. [Jun 2009, p.98]- Mojo
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Toriphiles will be delighted to find a generous 76 minutes of songstuff here but the less committed might never get past the veritable encyclopedia of tortured vocal affections that blight the stodgy opening track. [Jun 2009, p.102]- Mojo