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
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This excellently curated three-disc set uncovers a selection of previously unreleased outtakes. [Oct 2022, p.102]
    • Mojo
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    A few tracks disappoint; but there's lusty Fever Forever and graceful Beating On The Outside, which could be Roseanne cash. [Oct 2022, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Balances past and future with stylish precision on uplifting fourth LP. [Oct 2022, p.92]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Combs's developmental arc as a songwriter continues to soar, and this deep, deep reflection suits him to a tee. [Sep 2022, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anderson's lyrics have rarely sounded more transparent. ... Autofiction builds its own emotional momentum as Suede, once again, write new chapters of their story. [Oct 2022, p.88]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A far cry from the murky jazz-metal wig-outs of yore, TMV is a triumph of melody, smooth instrumentation and soul. [Oct 2022, p.82]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jones manages to transform these sad notes of memoir into glistening maps for moving forward. There is an optimism and experimentation in Jones's playing that is simultaneously uplifting and beguiling. [Aug 2022, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Each note feels laser cut, accompanied by the bellowing bass keys that have long characterised Geist's work. [Oct 2022, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The vigorous, often zippy arrangements finessed at guitarist Jonathan Pearce's Auckland home studio offer chipper contrast to the subject matter, Stokes a thoughtful, knowing presence. [Oct 2022, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The stories collected on Death Cab For Cutie's tenth album are rich in both detail and substance, with solidary lines that can unravel you. [Oct 2022, p.82]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How Do You Burn? finds the group on vintage form throughout. [Oct 2022, p.82]
    • Mojo
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    More coherent than some rejigged castoffs ought to be. [Oct 2022, p.84]
    • Mojo
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The arrangements sound less finessed, less "performed" and more file-shared this time out, and you sense Patient Number 9 has known corrective surgery. The great man's ongoing rage against the dying of the light still as its triumphs, though. [Oct 2022, p.85]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crackdown is fuzzy but focused and shows the blues' future is in capable hands. [Oct 2022, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The 12 songs making up their self-titled first album, though, are broad in scope and full of individual flourishes. [Oct 2022, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A bold sequel whose charms unravel further with each listen. [Oct 2022, p.84]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One of the States' great indie rock institutions, finding renewal largely in the familiar. [Oct 2022, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    While production high jinks threaten to override shapeshifting songs like Neon and Angst, the delicate balance between Ellery's lithe effectual voice and Skye's layered abstractions continues to confound expectations in singular skew-whiff fashion. [Oct 2022, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her uncompromising politics never come at the expense of the music. [Oct 2022, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Perfect for Twin Peaks' Bang Bang bar, but at 90 minutes duration its lesser parts drag like an over-indulgent director's cut. [Oct 2022, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sim's painful journey also feels like catharsis, and packs a vivid statement of musical intent. [Oct 2022, p.87]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Seen from 2022, Stereolab's sheer breadth of endeavour here can justly be vaunted as heroic. [Oct 2022, p.100]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Pale Blue Eyes' debut album deftly executes a type of electro-inclined pop which initially surfaced as the edges of post-punk softened to embrace melody over angularity. [Sep 2022, p.94]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Forsyth knows exactly how far to let out the line before returning to the earth's atmosphere, leaping forward, bringing it home. [Sep 2022, p.95]
    • Mojo
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    McKenzie is so focused on craft ahead of melody that an album this determined to be without jokes might have actually benefited from a couple. [Sep 2022, p.93]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    12 self-penned kitchen-disco bangers, each one a gem. [Oct 2022, p.84]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    King fulfils his promise. ... His honey-rich voice and whipsmart guitar playing are the standouts here. [Sep 2022, p.86]
    • Mojo
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bares no audible strains of road weariness. ... Retain[s] all their live urgency. [Sep 2022, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Its overload of big-picture polemic, explosive virtuosity and tune-rich entertainment certainly takes some unpacking, yet is consistently thrilling. [Sep 2022, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 76 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Their ongoing Heavy Rocks series plays things relatively straight, however, restricting their palette to metallic tones. Even so, this third volume rewrites the rulebook. An opening brace of tunes gallop like vintage Motorhead, if they were being chased by wild banshee saxophones. [Oct 2022, p.90]
    • Mojo