Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 9,666 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% 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: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,158 out of 9666
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Mixed: 3,474 out of 9666
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Negative: 34 out of 9666
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At times, her fluency leaves you wishing for a smudge or run that hasn't been place deliberately, but from the Tom Petty love-the-one-you're-with of Apples And Oranges to Cherry Baby's soft-focus disco, Lewis is a smart, fluent builder of her world. [Jul 2023, p.90]- Mojo
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O Monolith is no less bold of palette - opener Swing (in A Dream) embraces taut post-punk chug, jazz trumpet and enveloping synths - but always follows a lucid, compelling logic. [Jul 2023, p.86]- Mojo
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Brightly flags up their sixth album's abundant strengths. [Jul 2023, p.98]- Mojo
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It's not all bleak: within the lumbering inevitability that a drum machine brings, Broadrick pulls off a singular funkiness, which ensures that the titular 'purge' is fully transcendent, even enjoyable. [Jul 2023, p.90]- Mojo
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It's a familiar mix of delicate acoustic tracks and crunching country rock - but The 400 Unit has evolved via the deepening emotional heft of their leader's songwriting. [Jul 2023, p.86]- Mojo
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Songs hang in the air, implying rather than asserting uncanny dimensions. Dylan’s voice, again, is quite beautiful, with a control and nuance so many thought he’d lost. [Jul 2023, p.97]- Mojo
- Posted Jun 1, 2023
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Payseur's vocals might still sound diaphanous, his lyrics still concerned with small moments of sadness and pleasure, but there is now a structured professionalism here that will delight and confound others. [Jul 2023, p.82]- Mojo
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Baxter's third cracking album in a row. [Jul 2023, p.88]- Mojo
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If it has little earth under its nails, with any background maid or shepherd perfectly cast and choreographed, there are still plenty of lovely, curious tableaux - among them David Byrne's dreamy appearance on Moondog's High On A Rocky Ledge, or Nina Simone-inspired Cotten Eyed Joe, featuring Chaka Khan. [Jul 2023, p.89]- Mojo
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Margo's deep, stentorian tones have remained almost unchanged since 1986's Whites Off Earth Now!! and Hell Is Real could have graced that LP. Even so, there's real evolution. [Jul 2023, p.84]- Mojo
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What Matters Most is near faultless; a whole semester of song-craft in 40 minutes. [Jul 2023, p.90]- Mojo
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Council Skies is very much a creative success. It's the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards, while once again playing to his strengths. [Jul 2023, p.85]- Mojo
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Live At Berkeley 1971 powers through it all – relentless, often overwrought, often brilliant, too. [Jun 2023, p.99]- Mojo
- Posted May 30, 2023
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With its own low-key sparkle Archangel Hill stands testament to a musical third act every bit as engaging as anything that went before. [Jun 2023, p.91]- Mojo
- Posted May 30, 2023
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Sus Dog is the sound of Clark finding his voice in more ways than one. [Jun 2023, p.95]- Mojo
Posted May 26, 2023 -
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Her lovers rock take of Patsy Cline's Walking After Midnight further strengthens reggae and country's fine romance, and who could have predicted that Morrissey's Everyday Is Like Sunday would sound like an out-take from the Special AKA's IN the Studio when reworked as rocksteady with woozy horns? [Jul 2023, p.82]- Mojo
Posted May 25, 2023 -
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Something notable about Albarn's tracks is how hard they are to pick out from the others. [Jul 2023, p.83]- Mojo
Posted May 24, 2023 -
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Their anarchic cut'n'paste confections can baffle on first exposure, but with repeat listens the inventiveness of their compositions come to the fore, savvy hooks materialising from the seeming chaos of loops and samples. [Jul 2023, p.84]- Mojo
Posted May 23, 2023 -
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The result is a bold, career highlight that's dizzyingly inventive on the surface, with a powerful emotional undertow. [Jul 2023, p.87]- Mojo
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Ron Mael's lyrics are elegiac, witty and forensically detailed; Russel Mael delivers them exquisitely and they specialise in ear worms. [Jul 2023, p.82]- Mojo
- Posted May 22, 2023
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It's really hard not to feel the absence of David Crosby's harmonies. [Jun 2023, p.92]- Mojo
Posted May 22, 2023 -
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Villagers lives in its own hermetic and compelling space; it's not too late to pay a visit. [Jul 2023, p.84]- Mojo
Posted May 22, 2023 -
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By this double alum's end, it feels like a breakthrough in every way, the sound of an artist who has not only forged on, but also hit a glorious peak. [Jun 2023, p.84]- Mojo
Posted May 19, 2023 -
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It's the small, tragic details you notice on TLROE. [Jun 2023, p.84]- Mojo
Posted May 18, 2023 -
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There’s only one moment when the production distracts from the players, a brief yet clunky guitar overdub on Arajghiyine. Listeners who love a wide soundstage, however, with well-separated guitars coming at you from all angles, will be in heaven. Thankfully, the guests shun the spotlight, leaving Ibrahim, Alhassane Ag Touhami and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni to concentrate on that elusive sound, the guitars cleaner and crisper than those that introduced Tinariwen to the world 20 years ago. [Jun 2023, p.82]- Mojo
- Posted May 18, 2023
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