Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 10,495 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:
10495 music reviews
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Long Blondes sound pleasingly frayed around the edges. [Dec 2006, p.118]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An eerily oneiric album of light, space and silence. [Jun 2007, p.100]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    After a few spins its beautifully arranged songs get scratched into your soul. [Jun 2007, p.100]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mirrored explodes with twisting grooves and obtuse angles. [Jun 2007, p.102]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Connoisseurs of punk's darker corners and post-punk's experimental extremes will have their socks rocked off, totally. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Like [Brian Wilson's] Smile, it extends the language of pop, setting a fearsome standard for anyone equal to the challenge of matching his limitless invention. [Jun 2007, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Many longtime listeners... are sure to be disappointed with the radio-friendly production and sheer innocuousness of [the] lyrics. [Jun 2007, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The tunes dry up alarmingly. [Jun 2007, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Volta bristles with life. [Jun 2007, p.102]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The results are urgent, direct yet cerebral, drawing on some familiar touchstones. [May 2007, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Everybody ultimately suffers from a dearth of catchy melodies. [Jun 2007, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [Their] first [album] to sound authentically beaten up. [Jun 2007, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Existing fans are well served. [Jun 2007, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A lot of artists are creatively bankrupt by their third album. But being still only 23, you suspect Patrick Wolf is just coming into his own. [Mar 2007, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Here's a concept Tori: less is more. [Jun 2007, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Baby 81 finds a band evolving past expectations into a newly intriguing proposition. [Jun 2007, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beyond is the better-produced natural successor to 1987's epochal You're Living All Over Me. [May 2007, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's definitely in the family tradition. [Oct 2006, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The music... still has the from-odd-angles of Smog records, but now there's exquisite light amid the shade. [Jun 2007, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although the album is marred by its over-consistent tone, almost any one of these songs taken in isolation--played of the closing credits of The Sopranos, say--would rightfully be hailed as a lost classic. [May 2007, p.118]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This is unmistakeably the Arctics, only stronger, harder, sharper, faster.... An extraordinary and fulfilling sequel to their debut. [May 2007, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Full of regret, hard-won wisdom and DIY pop artistry, No Need To Be Downhearted transcends bog-standard indie to build a world of sophisticated melody and ingenious arrangements. [May 2007, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album that can only add to her legend. [May 2007, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Best of all is Sleep Together: like Radiohead playing Kashmir, and brilliantly led by former Japan keyboard player Richard Barbieri. Yes, prog lives--and Porcupine Tree are its leading players. [July 2007]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's a sense of going too far, of antic hilarity tipping into something more revealing. [Apr 2007, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cassadaga is an album to warm souls, rally minds and break hearts in equal measure. [May 2007, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    The sound might be spacier and more panoramic, but there's still some grit in the mix. [May 2007, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seduces with a mixture of whimsical beauty and compelling mystery. [Jun 2007, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their music has a heavier gait, like a cross between a crazed Triffids and a stroppier Bad Seeds. [Oct 2006, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    He sounds fresher than in years. [Dec 2006, p.108]
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