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
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hum
    Much of Hum has a brooding, measured Nick Drake-ish intensity, driven by fast, intricate folky picking. [Sep 2020, p.92]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Embryonic greatness, maybe, but still great. [Sep 2020, p.103]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Flaming Pie saw Paul McCartney critically asserting his place in the Fabbed-up mid-90s landscape. [Sep 2020, p.102]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Very sweet debut, a mostly acoustic affair. [Sep 2020, p.93]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seasick's latest is unshakeably him. [Sep 2020, p.91]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Howl is most powerful on the aptly titled Everything Is Happening At The Same Time and the Yearning Strange Beauty. Seeing him play these songs live might flesh-out Howl's sometimes too-deliberate feel. [Jun 2020, p.94]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those of a certain overcoat are assured a Proustian rush: distorted guitars, windswept austerity and Butler's rasp set to Triple Action Strepsil. [Jun 2020, p.95]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's darker and more complex than their debut, but also bigger-sounding. [Sep 2020, p.80]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Her voice and band discernibly crackle with confidence. [Aug 2020, p.86]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Williams' forward-pushing, inter-generational sound - 70s fusion-era grooves mingle with modern club motifs - is fully formed on this second full solo outing. [Aug 2020, p.91]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With the voice of Linda Ronstadt and songwriting gifts of Joni Mitchell, there simply isn't anything to dislike about Old Flowers. [Jul 2020, p.84]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Jessy Lanza's case, disruption has elevated artistic output. [Jul 2020, p.82]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Brief yet hugely entertaining debut. [Sep 2020, p.83]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    McFarlane creates a series of vibrant storytelling soundscapes where her sweetly soulful harmonised vocals intertwine with woozy synth sounds and throbbing electronic rhythms. [Sep 2020, p.92]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This third-eye-for-the-folk-guy makeover suits them well, its 11 tracks filled with space and light. [Sep 2020, p.94]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The result is a rhapsodic work. [Sep 2020, p.89]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ten spare, spacious folk-Americana songs, many of them lovely, and the instrumentation is subtle and beautiful. [Sep 2020, p.87]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Highlights include the cool Old Men, beer-soaked Dance With Your Spurs On and 90 Seconds Of Your Time, a dark, true-life tale that sounds both intense and insouciant. [Sep 2020, p.87]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Waterfall II comes fitted with escape hatches and launch pads. ... Those in search for a 2020 anthem, meanwhile, could do worse than the gorgeous calendar-collapse of Spinning My Wheels. [Sep 2020, p.86]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Standout track by far is La Chiqui where trans artist Sophie and Arca go head to head, like two tall, sonic waveforms. Extraordinary. [Sep 2020, p.83]
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Khruangbin haven't forgotten the global jukebox that got them this far: Turkish psychedelia, flamenco palmas, the shimmering heat of Houston, dub ... The ice has definitely melted. [Sep 2020, p.82]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their most piercing and autobiographical yet. [Sep 2020, p.82]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Crain has always been good, but on A Small Death she's genuinely great. [Aug 2020, p.92]
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Although the listener doesn't expect dynamics in this kind of music, there is little variation in either its colour and timbre. [Aug 2020, p.89]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Gleeful scattershot collision between genres and theatrical drama, explored through such epistles as DIE! DIE! DIE!, barked by Pixies' Black Francis. [Aug 2020, p.92]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The uniting factor, though, is Gabriel's greatest gift as a writer, vocalist and arranger. [Aug 2020, p.101]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Minimalist of palette it may be, but Laraaji's characteristic approach to melody, harmony and rhythm, at once both charmingly childlike and spiritually ecstatic, is present throughout. [Aug 2020, p.87]
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An attractive ad hoc vibe pervades these seven longish songs, partially recorded live: a DIY futurism, all tinfoil and stick-backed plastic, that harks back to Pulp's early '90s. [Jun 2020, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Few Pretenders albums have honoured the classic line-up's template so faithfully or successfully as Hate For Sale. [Aug 2020, p.86]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The more elemental moments - Sour Flower's mournful rustle of handclaps, cymbals and Fender Rhodes, or the intimate, guitar-led Green Papaya and Can't fight - are understated, introspective and more powerful. [Aug 2020, p.84]
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