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
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [Kozelek] has never sounded more inspired, achieving a rich balance of haunting atmosphere and twangy grit. [Feb 2004, p.101]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mostly, a terrific piece of work. [Nov 2003, p.120]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The four tracks on which they collaborate are timely reminders of The Stooges' initial impact and their ongoing influence. [Oct 2003, p.106]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Top-down pop that sparkles like a lifeguard's teeth. [Jul 2003, p.109]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    P.O.D. have evolved into one of the more inventive bands among metal's dimwitted hierarchy. [Dec 2003, p.112]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Strokes come across as a world-sized band that's tethering itself.... Nonetheless, this record is good. [Nov 2003, p.124]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The tribute album of the year, a cavalcade of orch-pop joy, an object lesson in songwriting smarts. [Dec 2003, p.106]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    An engaging genre exercise. [Dec 2003, p.112]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Truly, a glorious noise. [Nov 2003, p.128]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rich, but foreboding stuff. [Mar 2003, p.106]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A similar osmosis of Bunneymen and Chameleons' dramarama as Interpol. [Mar 2004, p.106]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A collision of punk-fuelled cacophony, halting balladry and guttersnipe sensibility. [Dec 2003, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Streetcore is an amalgam of all that made Joe Strummer, the musician and the man, so great. [Nov 2003, p.131]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their patchwork approach to psychedelia recalls the shoestring ingenuity of cult mid-'90s act Neutral Milk Hotel. [Jan 2005, p.104]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If The Rapture haven't quite transcended their influences yet, they are at least making a thrilling, febrile noise on the way. [Sep 2003, p.106]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It sears through the essence of what makes this band special, the brave voice and ebullient delivery of singer-songwriter-guitarist James Mercer. [Apr 2004, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Coral Fang finds The Distillers aping the bloodless Hollywood impotence of Hole's Celebrity Skin, their 'punk rock' inoffensive and utterly forgettable. [Dec 2003, p.113]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A clear rejuvenation, the occasional triteness that softened earlier work largely absent from these close-woven songs. [Nov 2003, p.125]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    They're a little short on the kind of tunefulness necessary to make these chorus-less songs stand out. [Dec 2003, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An extended groove workout, akin to Erykah Badu's Worldwide Underground EP. [Jan 2004, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gorky's play it spare and (mostly) live, placing further emphasis on their long-established pastoral bent. [Sep 2003, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A modern soundtrack for city life--an aural survival pack that pulls out moments of delicate beauty from all the shit and cacophony. [Dec 2003, p.122]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A ghosts' convention set to music. [Nov 2003, p.130]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An amibitious record. [Dec 2003, p.113]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Less exotic perhaps than the West Coast, Brazilian, German and Franco-Italian musical forays of the past, but even more remarkably musical, intriguingly textured and affecting. [Nov 2003, p.130]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Arguably the band's most magical record to date. [Nov 2003, p.123]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Although Evening... has this unexpected core of angry commitment, she's still slick with Californian cruisers. [Nov 2003, p.123]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    It's among the best albums ever made. [Nov 2002, p.92]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Delicate without being twee. [Jan 2004, p.98]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A further suite of touching vignettes, choice observations and killer lines. [Dec 2003, p.122]
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