Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 9,676 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 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6,166 out of 9676
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Mixed: 3,476 out of 9676
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Negative: 34 out of 9676
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Sciubba turns in surreal, lo-fi rock, delivered with the drop-dead charisma of Patti Smith and in the dark-brown tenor of Nico. [Apr 2014, p.97]- Mojo
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No huge amounts of new ground broken... but even a mediocre Kraftwerk album is still a work of near-genius. [Sep 2003, p.101]- Mojo
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Her balance of mesmerising, confessional intensity with sculpted pop instincts remains an unfailing pleasure throughout. [Mar 2022, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Jan 31, 2022 -
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SpiderBeetleBee is part history lesson, park New World exploration; the familiar made strange by glistening harmonics. [Nov 2017, p.102]- Mojo
Posted Oct 19, 2017 -
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Posted Jan 30, 2017 -
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Haunted and intimate, Balfe's deep brogue ultimately salvages hope from the wreckage. [May 2021, p.83]- Mojo
Posted Mar 24, 2021 -
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[the Lost Brothers] are most at home in melancholy autumnal folk-lands. [Feb 2018, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Feb 2, 2018 -
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Over and over again, Pratt hovers on the brink of revelation, yet Quiet Signs puts down a code, that, brilliantly, it's not quite possible to break. [Mar 2019, p.89]- Mojo
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Might well be their strongest, most brain-mulching statement to date. [Aug. 2011, p. 106]- Mojo
Posted Dec 12, 2011 -
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After 33 years of intuitive playing together they are able to show you their close-up sculpted technique, as if revealing their workings, and then do something so transcendent, so miraculous, that it causes you to believe in magic once again. [May 2020, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Apr 3, 2020 -
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These 10 acoustic pieces hold a certain stillness within the variety of tempos, instruments and inspirations. [Apr 2016, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Mar 9, 2016 -
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The Watsons' approach is softer, and more affecting, than wry, tack-sharp Lewis. [Aug 2008, p.114]- Mojo
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Wyatt has a knack of making happy song sound melancholic, but conversely brings some wry levity to the lovelorn ennui of jazz standard. [Nov 2001, p.103]- Mojo
Posted Nov 16, 2010 -
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Koenig is a formidable lyricist, and behind the music's occasional larkiness lies a record of high seriousness. [Jun 2019, p.88]- Mojo
Posted May 1, 2019 -
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Posted Jun 11, 2020 -
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Delivering a deliciously unsettling and artful listening experience. [Sep 2021, p.83]- Mojo
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Posted Mar 22, 2012 -
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With a gift for creating memorable melodies allied with a strong storytelling narrative, he comes across like a sophisticated jazz version of Bill Withers. [Apr 2012, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Mar 23, 2012 -
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Polar Bear remain gratifyingly dislocated from the mainstream. [Apr 2014, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Mar 21, 2014 -
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Their albums from this period were a little low on magic, but this is the real deal, an organic sound full of strange, shadowy moods and adventurous and melodic playing. [Nov 2022, p.104]- Mojo
Posted Oct 20, 2022 -
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He's boosted by a heart-and-soul R&B ensemble, but every hard-earned wrinkle on that still fierce visage remains in working order. [May 2013, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Apr 10, 2013 -
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Kane, like his Puppets partner, is fast becoming one of Britain;s landmark composers. [Jun 2011, p.102]- Mojo
Posted May 18, 2011 -
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There's no mistaking this advent of a genuine original, the woozy, whacked-out linguistic precision of A Sufi And A Killer resisiting all efforts at summary. [Apr 2010, p.105]- Mojo
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The aural palette is as wide as ever... but in the service of songs that might be sung on the morning train, under stars on a moonless night or even in the bath. [Apr 2002, p.116]- Mojo
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The Bravest Man impresses on a steadily rising graph as Womack's soul-soaked voice humanises the machinery in ways rarely heard these days. [Jul 2012, p.84]- Mojo
Posted Jun 25, 2012 -
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Real heart pulses behind the earwiggy riffs, the lyrics tracing ideas of love from first stage to last, more nuances being revealed on each play. [Oct 2019, p.85]- Mojo
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Posted Jul 18, 2012 -
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With the excellent Roots backing her, she recasts many of the dominant black music sounds of 30 or so years ago on a set of songs which address concerns that are clearly in the here-and-now. [Aug 2012, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Jul 19, 2012 -
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Exudes confidence as it cleverly tweaks harmonic principles and discreetly unveils its dramatic arc. [Nov 2019, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Oct 4, 2019