Mojo's Scores

  • Music
For 9,687 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:
9687 music reviews
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Joan Wasser's second covers set finds romance in Prince's lust-blind Kiss and innocence in the Strokes' Under Control. [Jul 2020, p.88]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A lugubrious but fresh, genre-bending take on modern club music. [Nov 2021, p.91]
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A New York studio may not be the ideal place to summon up the atmosphere of the Wild West, but these desperadoes on Barry Adamson's lable make a pretty good fist of it. [Dec 2009, p.101]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The delivery is relentless. [Jun 2014, p.86]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] fine and discerningly lean album. [Sep 2016, p.93]
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    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Their anarchic spirit is captured over the original LP's 11 tracks. [Sep 2015, p.92]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Though no Pet Sound, this album, at its best so wistfully reliving out golden yesterdays, ranks up there with Today! [Aug 2012, p.92]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A colourful, catchy and quietly impassioned record. [Oct 2016, p.90]
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] gloriously sensual record. [Sep 2015, p.93]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The new approach... lets them explore their lyrical side. [Sep 2005, p.94]
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Confident and expansive, yet intimate and subtle, Bonny Doon are in a good place here. [Aug 2023, p.81]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A set glorying in its sensual exoticism. [Jan 2007, p.102]
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This pared-back sonic trip sings with freshness and immediacy. [Sep 2023, p.89]
    • Mojo
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Visitations may just be their finest half-hour. [Dec 2006, p.108]
    • Mojo
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    RPG
    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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The strangely beautiful bounty of Mogadisco reveals more telling detail with each listen. [Feb 2020, p.103]
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Impressively, he makes it all his own--at times it feels like the songs might have been written by, or for, him. [June 2008, p.115]
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    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It exudes an organic, direct feel from which it gains its considerable charm. [Feb 2008, p.112]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    These 10 compact songs work both as intimate affirmation of Jurado's current brilliance and a hushed elegy for his too-soon-departed friend. [Jun 2019, p.89]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A gloriously nuanced embellishment of the band's timeless virtue. [Apr 2015, p.91]
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Those inimitable Laibach humours look set to endure. [Apr 2014, p.92]
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    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite such flamboyant touches, the songs here are more caustic than camp. [Oct 2003, p.120]
    • Mojo
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Weiss weaves his way through a songbook that encompasses olde-tyme rock, jazz, R&B and Cajun sounds. [Jun 2014, p.90]
    • Mojo
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    [A] polished second set by the Swedish '70s-inspired blues-psych outfit. [Sep 2016, p.99]
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's a noticeably urban record, an irritated rebuttal to the notion that dance music is dead. [Jun 2005, p.98]
    • Mojo
    • 93 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vibrant, vividly colourful and high spirited. [Jan 2006, p.146]
    • Mojo
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Louis Carnell crafts grime's own I Hear A New World. [Dec 2015, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rich, understated and resonant. [Feb 2017, p.97]
    • Mojo
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's hard to imagine a record more original or full of life, from any artist of any age, emerging this year. It's that damn good. [Nov 2007, p.91]
    • Mojo
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The quality dips and pitches, occasionally stuck at third on the bill at the Bill And Gate. There are tiny revelations too. [Mar 2016, p.104]
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