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
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is an album of winsome alt country charm, like a pleasant cousin of Ryan Adams. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've carved a bleak and beautiful album; their best, in fact. [May 2004, p.106]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is one explosive package no hip hop loving home should be without. [Aug 2004, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It can't shake off the usual curse of live albums: an underlying sense, in the context of Reed's studio catalogue, of inescapable superfluity. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is an enthusiastic hymn to the terminally uncool. [May 2004, p.106]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A swaggering, intoxicating tight-but-loose debut. [Jun 2004, p.107]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Beautifully recorded, this is intimate seduction for voice, elegant finger-picked guitar and not much else. [May 2004, p.93]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A debut of undeniable quality. [Oct 2004, p.106]
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    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Vines are mostly surface and scratch, a vessel of strangely useless beauty. [Apr 2004, p.114]
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    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The wily creativity on display here is astonishing. [Jun 2004, p.114]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Fennesz excels when he squeezes something truly sublime and undeniably human through his gritty, labyrinthine microprocessors. [Jun 2004, p.112]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ten
    The flow is smoother, and the whole thing has a more compressed, accessible feel, without compromising the essential psychedelic madness at its heart. [Apr 2004, p.113]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lean arrangements, never predictable melodic ticks and some of Byrne's most deliciously quirky lyrics ensure an event-packed listen. [Apr 2004, p.99]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    So sweet is the harmonic construction that awareness of the ecclesiastical niceties of such as The Transfiguration... is incidental to falling under the divine spell. [May 2004, p.105]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's perhaps a tad effortful here and there, but it's gloriously impolite. [Apr 2004, p.113]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Slaloms round sing-song pop, day-glo punk and Zappa-style tune transformations. [Jun 2004, p.106]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Edgy, ear-splitting, bonkers, bizarre and, in parts, astounding. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Dusky, angsty synth-pop. [Apr 2004, p.103]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    They have an inherent gift for the split-second pause, the cool coda, the scene-stealing lyric. [Feb 2004, p.98]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Martian mix of space-age sax, sky-high doo wop, seance-strange electronics and the rich, soulful vocals of [Adebimpe]. [Jun 2004, p.116]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The songs are a mite pretentious. [Sep 2004, p.99]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs feel like they're boiling over, there's so much heat under them. [Mar 2004, p.95]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    While this delicately wistful set is hardly a great leap forward for Zero 7, one thing is certain: you'll be hearing it everywhere this year. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This concise yet rewarding selection... allies Beans' oft-celebrated intellectual rigour to commendably rock-solid beats. [Mar 2004, p.104]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A masterpiece. [May 2004, p.103]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Coopers are adept with lyrics, big on attitude, but often lack that X-factor. [Nov 2003, p.131]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Not quite magic but an impressive attempt at experimental spell-weaving. [Mar 2004, p.101]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lamb offer the perfect antidote to all manner of vapid pop-cultural vomitus without sounding pretentious or preachy. [Dec 2003, p.118]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A fabulous, strangely soothing listen. [Feb 2004, p.100]
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    There's much to digest here but absolutely no filler--each song is a priceless gem. [Jan 2004, p.110]
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