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
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Whether this leaves you head-scratching or dancing like an electrified monkey, it certainly won't bore you. [Jul 2003, p.109]
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    • 97 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The empathy between the four is palpable. [Jun 2003, p.113]
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The balance between Joe's resigned words and uplifting melodies remains sublime. [Aug 2003, p.100]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is ZZ Top's Eliminator meets The Best of Chic. [Jun 2003, p.112]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Occasionally gestures towards greatness, but remains earthbound for the most part. [Sep 2003, p.112]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Delivers some great tunes in tight, concentrated blasts, but sets them behind a gauze of distortion that gives the impression they are gradually fraying around the edges. [Apr 2004, p.102]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    For every aching melodic twist and sagacious lyric, there's a lumpy, sub-Beach Boys dirge and dicing-with-doggerel couplet to negotiate. [Mar 2003, p.103]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    On a couple of tracks here he feels the need to introduce some lame house beats and equally passe drum'n'bass, which is a shame because the rest of the time he creates a vocabulary that's utterly his own. [Jun 2003, p.100]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Better than the conceptual barf of its predecessor Holy Wood, but not as sharp as his best record to date, '98's glammy Mechanical Animals. [Jun 2003, p.100]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For a genre whose young bands are increasingly concerned with girls and girls only, the Alkaline Trio have delivered an album offering far more than the pink blush of awkward adolescence. [Jul 2003, p.108]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Paul proves this production pioneer can still turn in brilliant beats when he wants to. [Jul 2003, p.106]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Cex moves slightly away from his former snot and swagger towards more humble inflection. [Jun 2003, p.108]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Enjoy it before it all gets used in bank adverts. [May 2003, p.104]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beth's vocals are startling. [Jun 2003, p.100]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    There's no sonic trickery here, just Mac the balladeer. [May 2003, p.95]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A significant return to form. [Feb 2003, p.86]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The awe fades quickly as this album progresses. [Jun 2003, p.100]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The season's most deliriously funky beats. [Jun 2003, p.113]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Heaves with harmonic charm. [Oct 2003, p.111]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Glazed soul music that's both lucid and ambiguous, that chimes simultaneously with Donna Summer, John Barry and Suicide, beautifully schizophrenic and poised on the edge of ruin. [May 2003, p.91]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An ecclectic addendum. [Jun 2003, p.113]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It transcends gender and genre. [Apr 2003, p.98]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Invigorating and intriguing, as hummable as it is inventive... it's also possibly the best thing Blur have done. [May 2003, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In part gripping.... But Gore doesn't always push his voice to its brilliantly effete/effeminate extremes. [May 2003, p.104]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    This record is full of surprises, roping in all manner of esoteria for a sweaty, beer-splattered and tune-drenched rock'n'roll party that rivals even Nevermind for balancing the pop sugar with the twisted underbelly and subtle smarts. [May 2003, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A phenomenal album.... As always, Wire embrace the technology of the day while always sounding somehow out of time. [May 2003, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The best solo album of her career. [May 2003, p.90]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shine is an intriguing portrait of a civilised chap in turmoil. [Apr 2003, p.110]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    At its best, Pole's new sound is winning. [May 2003, p.98]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has a pronounced acoustic bent. [May 2003, p.95]
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