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
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is a fine record, a real grower, but it also sees a group comfortably adrift. [Sep 2005, p.89]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Engaging, inventive and emotionally charged. [Nov 2005, p.96]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seems largely unable to go far beyond generic musical stylings and rather lifeless, matt[e]-finish reportage. [Nov 2005, p.97]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Calla aren't only as unique as NYC new wave gets... but beautifully tense too. [Feb 2006, p.103]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Stick on the nine minutes of opener Lufuala Ndonga, turn the bottom end up and stand back. What happens next is unbelievable. [May 2005, p.98]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While Kenny still sounds like he's mumbling mantras to himself, the band's soft-focus allure remains undiminished. [Oct 2005, p.102]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their best by a country mile. [Oct 2005, p.118]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Has much to recommend it. [Oct 2005, p.101]
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    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By track two... he has slipped back into the familiarity of sinuous guitar lines, fidgety beats and the cheesy language of international disco. [Jul 2005, p.110]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A mature work from a fascinating man. [Oct 2005, p.110]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Brakes give the likeable impression of being a jokey jamming session at a party that got out of hand. [Aug 2005, p.98]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Given her almost unremittingly bleak subject matter, it helps enormously that she's blessed with a unique voice. [Oct 2005, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    CocoRosie sound, blissfully, like no one else. [Sep 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Any ad creatives hoping for mobile phone campaign music will be disappointed. [Oct 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those who thought White Ladder would stand as Gray's crowning achievement may now have to think again. [Oct 2005, p.104]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The combination... works just fine. [Oct 2005, p.114]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    After the laboured Driving Rain, a welcome return of that definitive, love-it-or-hate-it McCartney effortlessness. [Oct 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Uninhibited where "()" felt constipated. [Oct 2005, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A charged return. [Mar 2006, p.96]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A beautiful waste of time. [Sep 2005, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A triumph of majestic American pop uplift over bleak real-life adversity. [Oct 2005, p.112]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    OOIOO instill Boredoms' cosmic clatter with an air of genre-bursting adventure and mischief. [Nov 2005, p.108]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Imagine Deerhoof without the jazzcore twist'n'turn or Stereolab with extra no-wave muscle and groove. [Jan 2006, p.126]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A slow-burning cracker. [Apr 2006, p.101]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A glorious melange of love, loss, regret, homesickness and romance. [Sep 2005, p.86]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Though not without the odd turkey, it is arguably their most satisfying work since 1978's Some Girls. [Oct 2005, p.100]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Recasting love songs as ghost stories, and with no recycled early '80s moves, The Coral's self-created world seems reinvigorated. [Jun 2005, p.96]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Frankly this sort of thing makes Athlete, Snow Patrol et al sound like fire-breathing berserkers. [Oct 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Clapton's playing is still fluid. [Oct 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Where Kloot's self-titled second had moments of glowing, maximalist production, here the sound is pared back. [May 2005, p.106]
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