Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 9,676 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 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:
9676 music reviews
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Deliver[s] more surreal, neon-psych country rock, in sweet harmonies and super-crunchy six-string riffs. [Oct 2023, p.89]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    All told: here's blues, raw'n'alive. [Sep 2023, p.83]
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    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Finds her super-brassy, minimally-tooled groove machine in peak form. [Oct 2023, p.97]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Evocative rather than vivid in a way that evokes Faith-era Cure's greyscale atmospheres, Everything IS Alive is the sound of Slowdive still holding their impressive earthly form. [Oct 2023, p.85]
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    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Surely Relentless is how Chrissie Hynde always wanted the Pretenders to sound. [Oct 2023, p.79]
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A slinky, soulful, witty, mid-paced affair. [Oct 2023, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Georgas's blend of vintage new wave with quirky ethereality includes touching haikus and lullabies, but it's the pissed-off frankness that wins out. .... Gorgeously cathartic. [Oct 2023, p.81]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sobering adventure close o something like home. [Oct 2023, p.86]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Road is a hugely enjoyable hoot. [Oct 2023, p.82]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The songs are wonderfully non-toxic, obsessed in only the best possible way, a refreshing take on country love and lust. [Sep 2023, p.82]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    What's new, though, is how Taylor has pushed his music's most rousing dimensions to the fore. [Oct 2023, p.84]
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Inevitably flawed yet fascinating, it's respectful without being reverent, less myth-making tribute, more robust embrace. [Aug 2023, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Appaloosa Bones is prime Isakov. [Oct 2023, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    They've just turned their hazy daze up to 11. [Sep 2023, p.89]
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A thrilling 90-minute swansong. [Oct 2023, p.93]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Much of IM is thrillingly intense, then; a rabbit punch with pop-prog interludes and Devo-like hooks. [Sep 2023, p.88]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hozier's audacity can feel outsized and overbearing, but his tandem of earnestness and eccentricity here is more winning than not. [Sep 2023, p.91]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Well-crafted and unfussy. [Sep 2023, p.92]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Its dozen tunes about finding love, rejecting losers, and criticising corrupt systems are a patchwork of assorted American pops. [Sep 2023, p.83]
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    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A cathartic wrestle with identity, Deliverance will sit well with fans of the original Some Bizarre roster. [Sep 2023, p.91]
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An undeniably enjoyable career-twilight collection. [Sep 2023, p.82]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Volcano continues where 2021's Loving In Stereo left off. [Sep 2023, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Has a spare, homespun feel with its simple folk guitar. [Sep 2023, p.82]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Expansive, restless, subtly volatile, Radio red is intriguing enough to keep it locked. [Sep 2023, p.84]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Over 12 mostly blueprint-hugging songs returns diminish, but scuzzy beat-box disco outrider What Did I Ever To You is great. [Sep 2023, p.86]
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    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
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    Stylistic touchstones veer toward the William Blake's 7 weird of Julia Holter, Henry Cow and Julie Tippetts' prog-jazz outlier Sunset Glow. Incomprehensible/irresistible. [Sep 2023, p.87]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The revivified Bush Tetras prove No Wave's not dead. [Sep 2023, p.86]
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    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Sure, the age is clear in the voices of Matt Piucci and Steven Roback, but so is the honesty inside songs that mine lost brothers, opportunities, and time. [Jul 2023, p.86]
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's absorbing stuff, even shorn of the images. [Aug 2023, p.87]
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    If there isn't a great leap forward, there is progression on assorted fronts, so The Best Is Yet To Come embraces all-out rock, but Scared Of Love suggests acoustic ballads could be an alternative way ahead. [Sep 2023, p.88]
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