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
    • 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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A steely-eyed desperation to succeed is transparent all through Hard-Fi's debut. [Aug 2005, p.112]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Like Weimar cabaret Gilbert & Sullivan. [Apr 2006, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's all funny, sardonic, heartfelt and loveable. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    You sense they need a couple of pure pop gems that the Mary Chain had submerged within the noise to perfect the classic sound they aspire to. [Jun 2005, p.95]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    There is no great leap into the unknown here, but rather a fusion of the band's previous two records. [16 Jul 2005, p.50]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Formula, for sure, but it's the Buzzcocks' own: the original and best. [Apr 2006, p.88]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A hugely sensual work. [Apr 2006, p.88]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their unique pop panache saves the proceedings from simple retread. [May 2006, p.102]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Compare this latest instalment of vivid, left-wing existentialist pop with past triumphs like Mars Audiac Quintet and Emperor Tomato Ketchup, and it's every bit as good. [Apr 2006, p.102]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With its indelible songs and bug-eyed intensity, this album makes you wish that more bands could be so irreverent. [Apr 2006, p.100]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Delivers on the melodic promise of 2001's Rock Action, teetering between art-bruised fragility during its slower, gentler moments and flashes of stereo-buckling metal. [Mar 2006, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gentle triumph. [Jan 2006, p.130]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Feels as old as a cracked-leather Bible that's lasted generations and witnessed many secrets. [Apr 2006, p.98]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For a studio album it sounds remarkably like a live one. [Mar 2006, p.90]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mostly loose and warm more than heart-stopping. [Apr 2006, p.104]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His own three songs blend in nicely. [Apr 2006, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    McBean remains a fascinating prospect. [Apr 2006, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The repetitive refrains and orchestral interventions of Lil' Beethoven are developed with the judicious use of rock guitar into something bigger, yet just as beguiling. [Feb 2006, p.90]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An imposing, sometimes melodramatic affair. [Mar 2006, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Expands Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's frighteningly austere template to an almost symphonic level of opulence. [Jul 2006, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Occasionally self-indulgence threatens, but no matter; there is an undeniable musical hunger and pioneering spirit at work here. [Apr 2006, p.101]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A mixture of old-school smarts and mellifluous modernism. [Apr 2006, p.103]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An exercise in monolithic heaviness. [May 2006, p.98]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A specialist release, perhaps, but one that is ambitious, accessible and beautifully played. [May 2006, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Shows just how focused their rock'n'roll attack has become. [May 2006, p.105]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are a couple of songs hidden away in the backwaters of their patchy debut which hint at something much better. [Apr 2006, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rocks and then rocks harder, launching wave after wave of vicious punk hooks. [Jul 2005, p.106]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [They] stand apart, wedding guitar-free sounds to refreshingly vulnerable sentiment. [Mar 2006, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] deft combination of emotional intimacy and musical ambition. [Oct 2005, p.108]
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