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
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There's plenty of soul and swagger again here. [Apr 2006, p.94]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The disc as a whole is never quite as gripping as its conceptual predecessors. [Jun 2006, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Certainly the most accessible [album] of their career. [Jun 2006, p.99]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [An] intriguing debut. [Sep 2005, p.103]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of its finest moments are its most intimate and least arranged. [May 2006, p.99]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is repeat-play head music that still manages to hotwire the heart. [May 2006, p.102]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite having some of Ritter's least introspective lyrics, there are some of his most emotionally affecting songs. [Apr 2006, p.98]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    [It] was mind-bending in its day and remains so now. [May 2006, p.122]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Odd, enjoyable. [Jun 2006, p.103]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's much to be enjoyed here, but The Concretes, like a packet of Fruit Pastels, are best appreciated in fairly small doses. [Apr 2006, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A record of jarring juxtapositions, a bunch of cool tunes that could[n't] care less about how they fit together. [Apr 2006, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As with everything Morrissey does, ROTT's resonance will elude those not hitherto fascinated by its master's voice. A shame, for in terms of pure musicality, ROTT is possibly his most ecumenical solo album, his most welcoming and loveable. [Apr 2006, p.89]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A third of these songs can rightly be claimed as classic Placebo pop. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While it's the Oldham-penned title track... which will rightly grab all the headlines, Staton's mastery of more traditional material is no less imposing. [Apr 2006, p.88]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's a set packed with ideas and enthusiasm. [May 2006, p.105]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's far from disappointing. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Delivers a top-grade high. [Jun 2006, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sadly, if you possess any of Embrace's four other albums, you'll have heard it all before. [May 2006, p.98]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Guitars, sounding like synths, soar into the stratosphere, and intense crescendos linger over delicate, breathy passages. [Aug 2005, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Very focused and quietly anthemic. [Feb 2006, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A clumsily executed, ghoulishly self-regarding mess. [Mar 2006, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The trio's chanting, loops and metal-bashing framework is now fleshed out by some beautiful ambient-noise balladry. [Mar 2006, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's remarkable how organic and right (as opposed to gimmicky) the church voices sound on these 14 melodic folk, spare soul and various-tempo blues songs. [Apr 2006, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    [CD1's] uproar casts most of CD2's over-delicate maunderings in a wan light. [Apr 2006, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A more than enjoyable stopgap. [May 2006, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Josh conjures a light, affectless mood which quietly promises happiness without ever sliding into schmaltz. [May 2006, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A worthy, determined salvo. [Jul 2006, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's difficult to judge on one listen. [May 2006, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A stripped-back stroll through the summer of the '80s. [Jun 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The joy of Steely Dan's early albums was that their superior playing, production and craftsmanship was vibrantly energetic, spiced with rollercoaster twists and turns, and deeply sardonic lyrics... Fagen now lacks those vital extra elements, leaving just craftsmanship with no spark. [Apr 2006, p.104]
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