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
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There's still much to link the group to their musical past. [Jun 2004, p.107]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    True, [Merritt] still sings in a voice that's subject to fairly strict demarcations of range and malleability, but his deft spadework in the trench of song-craft more than compensates. [May 2004, p.93]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Los Lobos' ingenuity with arrangements and atmosphere makes The Ride something special. [Jun 2004, p.102]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With elements of synth-pop, new wave and blue-eyed soul distilled into a succession of heart-beating hits, Trial Of The Century is a record that gets better with each listen. [Dec 2004, p.99]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Their debut, Mono, gave voice to little beyond their frustration, and the distance between that impressively venomous fit of black-hearted flailing and Penance Soiree's stereopathic, multiphonic attack is similar to that between Nirvana's Bleach and Nevermind. [May 2004, p.94]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An album of lightness and substance, in perfectly observed amounts. [Oct 2005, p.114]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A nearly flawless set of left-field folk. [Jun 2004, p.106]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A remarkable comeback. [Jun 2004, p.106]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dreamily exploratory, but rooted in pop. [Apr 2004, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    His songwriting has rarely sounded so acute. [Apr 2004, p.109]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    To dismiss Heroes to Zeroes as a mere exercise in rock homage underestimates The Beta Band's charm. [Apr 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    In a way, Trampin' is to this decade what Horses was to the '70s: a repudiation of its time, and the promise of a way forward. [Apr 2004, p.98]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It really is incredibly good, even if sometimes it's hard to feel you're hearing the real Jolie and not a character she's adopted. [Jun 2004, p.110]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Starts strong and finishes weak, but it's forgivable considering the gems contained in this 12-song set. [May 2004, p.97]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The longer the album runs the more engaging the songs seem to become. [May 2004, p.104]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Lynn's voice... is as strong as it was during her heyday, while her songwriting ability has only increased with age. [Jun 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brilliantly produced and performed, rather than astoundingly well written. [Jun 2004, p.112]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forget notions of old or new schools: this is an album that blends a kindergarten-level technique with styles that are strictly postgraduate. [Jun 2004, p.116]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    All pomp and bluster, like Coldplay at their most bombastic. [Mar 2004, p.108]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    When she opens her mouth, you get nothing but depressed. [Jun 2004, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A scrapbook of tuneful, scattershot fragments. [Mar 2004, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It drifts rudderlessly in places, but at its best... it's among Tortoise's most persuasive music to date. [Apr 2004, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The album is engagingly eclectic, always melodic, sometimes hard and storming, but never quite so sublime [as single "Good Boys"]. [Nov 2004, p.132]
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This sounds like a decent Gang Star LP--no bad thing, but it lacks the spark of individuality. [May 2004, p.103]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Moments of simple, exultant joy are plentiful. [Jun 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It is a pleasure to report that nothing has changed. [Jun 2004, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The best songs... sound as if singer Gary Lightbody spends a lot of time sitting in the dark pretending to be Lou Barlow. [Sep 2003, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A splendid corollary to Mercury Rev's 1998 pastoral masterpiece, Deserter's Songs. [Jan 2005, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Aerosmith's] affection for and facility with the material in hand [is] as plain as the nose on Gerard Depardieu's face. [May 2004, p.106]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Innovative? No. Impeccable? Yes. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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