Mojo's Scores
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For 9,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
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Positive: 6,167 out of 9677
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Mixed: 3,476 out of 9677
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Negative: 34 out of 9677
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Harper offers nice lines in homages to Marley, Basement Tapes Dylan, and funky James Brown. [Apr 2003, p.106]- Mojo
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For the most part it's a genuinely thrilling, energy-charged adventure. [Feb 2002, p.98]- Mojo
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The danger with this kind of project is sounding like a '70s revue, but Rouse avoids that with his intimate vocal style and quirky songwriting. [Sep 2003, p.104]- Mojo
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These songs cut too deep to be pastiche.... A lovely record of enormous warmth. [Jun 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Their unique pop panache saves the proceedings from simple retread. [May 2006, p.102]- Mojo
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Winds the clock back to a mid-'80s electro-soundworld in which melodies are crafted alongside beats, rather than crushed by them, and the tinkle of a keyboard carries a sinister air of mystery. [Mar 2002, p.104]- Mojo
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While Kenny still sounds like he's mumbling mantras to himself, the band's soft-focus allure remains undiminished. [Oct 2005, p.102]- Mojo
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This whets the appetitie for whatever Stevens' formidable talent fixes upon next. [Aug 2006, p.96]- Mojo
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Brakes give the likeable impression of being a jokey jamming session at a party that got out of hand. [Aug 2005, p.98]- Mojo
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A swaggering, intoxicating tight-but-loose debut. [Jun 2004, p.107]- Mojo
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If it weren't all so damn happy this would be the most terrifying music in existence. [Aug 2004, p.98]- Mojo
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A return to basics--14 meticulously sculpted, wordless vignettes tricked out in blurry beats, subtle digital daubs and mellifluous bass counterpoints. [May 2004, p.104]- Mojo
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An eccentric, genre-hopping tribute to the mutability of song-craft. [Mar 2002, p.101]- Mojo
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This one's got a whiff of the Stones' Black And Blue about it. [May 2006, p.98]- Mojo
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Stereolab had similar starting blocks--there's no reason why Fujiya & Miyagi shouldn't become as notable. [Jan 2007, p.110]- Mojo
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The recorded-live-by-candlelight performances documented herein aren't short on the kind of clamorous foreboding and twisted pop nous a fan of Disintegration or The Head On The Door might hope for. [Aug 2004, p.87]- Mojo
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As Mayaer talks himself in circles you hear an artist facing massive success, and retreating from it. [Dec 2003, p.112]- Mojo
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An hour of heartful, artful singing enhanced by dense, yet fuss-free arrangements. [Jan 2004, p.106]- Mojo
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On Everyone Is Here, you'll find some of the most haunting music to bear the Finn imprint. [Sep 2004, p.95]- Mojo
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Finds them fine-tuning their class act, Dickon Hinchcliffe's choice string arrangements underpinning a typically careworn set. [Jul 2003, p.107]- Mojo
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Ten years from now, someone will stumble across this in a thift shop, buy on a whim and be thrilled. [Sep 2002, p.96]- Mojo
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All BRMC really have in common with The Strokes is hype and haircuts, but their music lives up to both. [Feb 2002, p.92]- Mojo
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Finally, Embrace deliver a poignant and prolonged rush of blood to the head. [Oct 2004, p.116]- Mojo
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Transistor Radio's songs do lack the shirtfront-clenching grip of Ward's Transfiguration of Vincent set. But shapeless and misty atmospherics have their shadowy power too. [Mar 2005, p.92]- Mojo
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With greater degrees of deliberate construction than Mers De Noms, Thirteenth Step is more cohesive band effort, less ad hoc side project. [Nov 2003, p.132]- Mojo
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The longer the album runs the more engaging the songs seem to become. [May 2004, p.104]- Mojo
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Listening to Bob Wratten is as necessary as a good cry. [Jan 2002, p.91]- Mojo
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Motion Sickness won't convert the uninitiated, but offers subtle craftsmanship and deft musicianship. [Feb 2006, p.95]- Mojo