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
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A slightly muted, at times infuriatingly uneven, but ultimately rewarding collection. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's unfortunate that the weedy vocals dilute some of its impact, otherwise this would be a triumph. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fruitful collaborations... invite the listener to keep that dial locked, despite the odd distracting lapse into free-form digital static. [Jul 2005, p.112]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is not a Big Rock Record. Instead it's intimate, multi-layered and uplifting. [Apr 2005, p.86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cold yet compulsive. [Jun 2005, p.106]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Frisell's braided guitar work creates a complex, nocturnal mood, while Parks' weeping accordion and sweeping string arrangements heighten the inherent drama. [May 2005, p.104]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Alas, when their feisty glam racket starts to repeat itself towards the end, the joke wears a little thin. [Nov 2005, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An aptly schizophrenic alternative history. [May 2005, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The core remains Roberts' discomfitingly pure way with diction. [May 2005, p.109]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    By the time the album ends in a full-on industrial free-jazz freakout you'll either be totally lost or suspecting this man might be a genius. [Jun 2005, p.97]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On all these fabulous tales, Gira's voice remains reassuringly salty. [May 2005, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gorgeously sweaty in its simplicity. [May 2005, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Not their masterpiece, but a sizeable effort nonetheless. [Apr 2006, p.100]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    [It] is largely unfettered by the dictates of genre. [Jul 2006, p.106]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As a rough cut solo exercise, Rhys has delivered a blinder. [Feb 2005, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Some of it is tough and unforgiving... and some is pure pop plastique. [Apr 2005, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Smelts the classic rock canon (Madness, Blur, Bowie, Small Faces) into an infectious, head-spinning punch. [May 2005, p.109]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Breathtaking moments, brilliant tunes, and Breakdown, a genuinely Beatles-league pop hit. [Nov 2004, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brings a little focus--and some memorable tunes--to the proceedings, though Wolf's muse remains doggedly eclectic. [May 2005, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Green sounds in his element. [Apr 2005, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reveals another eclectic, kaleidoscopic world. [May 2005, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    [An] almost equal measure of intriguing and tiresome music. [Jun 2005, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is their best album in 65 years. [May 2005, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Retains the gum-tingling pop harmonies and guitar-throttling riffs of previous albums, but their reedy punk sinew has swollen into rock muscle. [Jun 2004, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Takes the most accessible aspects of the house-soaked, pre-Britpop scene and crafts a swaggering debut that places songwriting suss firmly above pointless posturing. [Oct 2004, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An agreeably bittersweet album. [Mar 2005, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her textured roar means even the less melodic songs have traction. [May 2005, p.103]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its claustrophobia is total, unique, spellbinding. [Mar 2005, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's a little hard to take in one sitting, though downcast fans of Saint Etienne and The Magnetic Fields will find much to adore. [Sep 2005, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sadly, the songs are less noticeable than the urge to strangle the drummer. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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