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
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Because Of The Times burns with all the invention and ambition that seemed to have been sucked out of its predecessor. [May 2007, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's conceived, written and designed for the loud appreciation of sweat-drenched pill-poppers at a 'nitespot' nowhere near you. And as such, it succeeds in magnificently silly style. [Feb 2007, p.100]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An energised splicing of riff, declamation and technology that sounds like a thrilling synthesis of 2003's The Real New Fall LP and 2005's Fall Heads Roll, delivered with the highest levels of vigour for some time. [Feb 2007, p.92]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album full of jukebox hits. [Mar 2007, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Strangelet's not so much odd as unusually good. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This remains at its essence an album of beguiling, rain-splashed intimacy. [May 2007, p.106]
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The influences here are smart, the music smarter. [Feb 2007, p.100]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    His lyrics don't always match his ambition. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A little too relaxed for its own good. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A fantastic consolidation of everything good about LCD. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A winner. [May 2007, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record that sounds like absolutely no one else on the planet. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A big-tableau statement that combines his musical and ideological passions. [May 2007, p.106]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall, the album might not surpass his masterpiece The Mysterious Production Of Eggs, but Armchair Apocrypha proves Bird's knack for the musical hat-trick. [May 2007, p.102]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    El-P's portentous delivery lacks poetics. [May 2007, p.110]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The ballads bewitch, reminding us that Tracey is one of the unique British voices, up there with Dusty. [Apr 2007, p.100]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Introducing] contains her best songs and most relaxed, assured performances. [May 2007, p.112]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its predominantly midtempo, cleverly crafted pop-Americana sounds even more substantial. [Apr 2007, p.97]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Immediately and huantingly familiar, it circumvents pastiche courtesy of a mischievous cut'n'paste aesthetic. [Feb 2008, p.108]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    12 knockout tunes soaked in feedback and melody. [Apr 2007, p.96]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In a crowded space, The Rakes have a place to call their own. [Apr 2007, p.96]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [It] burns with pop ambition. [Feb 2007, p.105]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Winehouse remains one of modern music's most original voices and is now emerging as arguably the finest soul singer of her generation. [Nov 2006, p.116]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Memory Man comes at you with a hesitant rush, portraying bespectacled, nice Mr. Hales as an improbably suburban Jeff Buckley--no glamour, all passion. [Oct 2007, p.94]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The record comes on like a sweaty, amphetamine-fuelled rehearsal room bash that went extraordinarily well. [Oct 2006, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a reversal of the usual wild and weird direction of extra-curricular albums: it's more commercial than Room On Fire! [Nov 2006, p.112]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You're left feeling less !!! than ??? [Apr 2007, p.102]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's impeccably stylish, idiosyncratic stuff, as ever, but is a little more heart too much to ask for? [Apr 2007, p.108]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Here lies much of the album's magic: whatever ornate turns the music takes, at its heart is the primal stuff of great rock'n'roll. But God, is it big. [Apr 2007, p.94]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On paper, it looks so wide-ranging as to be in danger of coming out gloopy and overdone; as it turns out, Rhys glues everything together with a crisp sense of confidence. [Feb 2007, p.98]
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