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
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Their continued presence is reassuring, confirming that there are enough people sufficiently interested in old-fashioned rap music to ensure the group's survival. And this album, logically, is made for those listeners, not to pander to a theoretical multitude. [Aug 2003, p.94]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    As accomplished as anything in his storied catalogue. [Jul 2003, p.113]
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Disappoints big time. [Oct 2003, p.110]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mostly you're left with the sensation that the quickie you so hotly anticipated wasn't what you were looking for after all. [Sep 2003, p.104]
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's not so much that the most singularly talented and important soul singer of now has let us down, more she's tried too hard to please. [Sep 2003, p.105]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Much sparser and looser than we are used to from David Sylvian. [Sep 2003, p.101]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Exotic, deep, unique. [Oct 2002, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Promise of Love's cyclical episodes unravel at an amenable mid-pace, each one allowed just enough time to establish a mood bfore halting as over-familiarity threatens. [Jul 2003, p.101]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Quirky, detail-rich arrangements nodding at dub and death metal. [Jun 2003, p.108]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Represents an ultramodern rock masterpiece, low-key yet ominous, offering new yet comforting ways of singing familiar tunes. [Jul 2003, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    These songs cut too deep to be pastiche.... A lovely record of enormous warmth. [Jun 2003, p.101]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Finds them fine-tuning their class act, Dickon Hinchcliffe's choice string arrangements underpinning a typically careworn set. [Jul 2003, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unfortunately, on Soft Spot [Eef Barzelay] strays too often into the pleasantly nondescript. [Jul 2003, p.112]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Some of the songwriting is exceptional. [Dec 2003, p.114]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their signature tension between black blues gestures adn white boy harmonies has never been more vividly exploited than here. It'll keep you busy for months. [Jun 2003, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Celebrates the little people with full powerpop majesty. [Jul 2003, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    As the concerns that drive Lytle's lyrics lift out, the well-known tremulous quiver and fragile vocals become increasingly irreplaceable, the perfect medium for songs about articulating the intangible. [Jun 2003, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It recollects emotion with a raging tranquillity, artistic objectivity overruling self-pity. [Jul 2003, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coheres as well as anything else in their canon. [Jun 2003, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is miffed and exemplary metal. [Jul 2003, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Rice establishes an extraordinary intimacy here. [Oct 2003, p.107]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Aural absinthe. [Jul 2003, p.115]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    These intimate hushes and lilts would be remarkable even as instrumentals.... Yet it's Nastasia's voice--and the words that it sings--that really sucks the air out of the room. [July 2003, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    All in all, it's pretty much perfect. [Jul 2003, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An intriguing companion to DM's Songs of Faith and Devotion, heady with the lexicon of addiction and redemption. [Jun 2003, p.110]
    • Mojo
    • 63 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Beats click and rumble while Jewel simpers baby-doll vocals which sound deflatingly calculated. [Oct 2003, p.114]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sometimes their brutish irreverence works.... But Audio Bullys' vignettes of suburban lad-life can't quite equal Mike Skinner's deft way with a lyric. [Jul 2003, p.106]
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This is nihilistic pop at its finest. [Jun 2003, p.113]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sounds like an all-girl early Beastie Boys.... The politics, though, are somewhat sounder. [May 2003, p.99]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    A persistently funny exercise in nonconformity. [May 2003, p.106]
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