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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    On this solid business-as-usual set, his band kicks requisite ass on Isaak's decent country-rock tearjerkers. [Jul 2009, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Out on its own, Here We Go Magic demands attention. [Aug 2009, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The ensuing synthetic pop suite can't disguise a crucial lack of memorable songs. [Mar 2009, p.111]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bringing out the too-often buried pop nuances of his stylish songs and new inventions from his under-rated guitar work, it's a stylistic cloth that Ward seems very comfortable wearring. [Mar 2009, p.111]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Years Of Refusal isn't a great album, but it's no disaster. [Mar 2009, p.104]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hanna's sub-Kevin Shields guitars and Chikudate's sparkling keyboards eddy across the Blondie-esque layers. [Feb 2009, p.113]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The results are as scattershot as the guest list. [Mar 2009, p.106]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tight Knit is a beautiful, lazy album of befogged West Coast dreams. [Apr 2009, p.107]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Goodnight Oslo could be a ghost story, a slice of stoner paranoia or a song about steam trains, but shows something sleek and ominous still looming in the fog of Hitchcock's imagination. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This cleaner-sounding set finds the quartet's elemental power now yielding to poise, thier speaker-bleeding blues and jagged riffs leavened by folk shimmer and country jangle. [Mar 2009, p.110]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A spectacular step forward. [Mar 2009, p.111]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If Solomon Burke and Will Oldham had a baby. [Mar 2009, p.105]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While there is no quibbling with the noble sentiment behind this set, a more judicial selection policy might have established a unified aesthetic to eclipse some of the B-side material here. [Mar 2009, p.114]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their 14th release enschews improv for structure, its hulking grooves boosted by Melvins guitarist Buzz Osborne and the distinctive noir wail of new label boss Mike Patton. [Apr 2009, p.107]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    While It's Not Me, It's You isn't quite the voice of wisdom, the Mockney chatter has been dialed right down. [Mar 2009, p.108]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    From the lurking threat of 'Street Walkin'' to the pretty sadness of closer 'Goin' Home,' this is outsider's music. Therein lie its real strength. [Mar 2009, p.110]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If anything, she's dreamer, the tempo's a little more down, the mood more twilit. [May 2009, p.101]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    She's neither a soft seducer nor a lapel-grabber, but her eye for detail combined with that degree of vocal detachment quietly commands attention. [Mar 2009, p.109]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The band make each piece their own on this, their most satisfying set for years. [Dec 2008, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This has more than enough beauty and character to stand on its own. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Stollsteimer, it seems, is still in search of his own musical identity. [ Jun 2009, p.96]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, Sea Sew too often clunks along like its awkwardly punning title. [Jun 2009, p.1010]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This may sound wilfully eclectic but actually hangs together, bound by May's showman-like vocals. [Mar 2009, p.109]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hugely enjoyable, with nagging tunes too, but let's move forward next time. [Mar 2009, p.106]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Less like leftovers from a previous album than another move forward, creating out of his prepared piano and mini string section something fresh, subtle and beguiling. [Apr 2009, p.106]
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    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A Fool For Everyone treads a similarly disconsolate path [as "The Sky Behind The Sea"]. [Apr 2009, p.101]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Nebraskans' second LP strikes a meaty accord between classic rock swagger and the pumped up, get-in-the-van intensity of hardcore. [Apr 2009, p.107]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hamilton's second album only firms up a reputation for making pastoral, semi-acoustic pop. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With producer Owen Morris at the controls, Which Bitch? always promised to be a riotous affair. [Mar 2009, p.107]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While Tonight: Franz Ferdinand might not take all the chances those early reports suggested, it shows the band examing their world from all angles, from the unflattering profile in the mirror behind the batr to the long hard look into the soul. Life in three dimensions suits them very well indeed. [Feb 2009, p.102]
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