Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 9,657 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: 6,151 out of 9657
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Mixed: 3,472 out of 9657
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Negative: 34 out of 9657
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Gazelle Twin masterfully keeps us in suspense, incorporating strongly evocative sonic components. Around track eight the tension subsides, yet this doesn't affect the overall consistency. [Feb 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Dec 13, 2023 -
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Zietsch's music upholds the sparse, haunted tone set by Lana Del Ray, the minimalism so acute that each chord change often lasts for just one stroke of the strings or ivories. [Jan 2024, p.88]- Mojo
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Where the stage show had the intimacy of Young's between-song chats, the intimacy here comes from the sensation that you're listening in on his thoughts as one song drifts, like memories do, from one tome to another. [Jan 2024, p.90]- Mojo
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Posted Dec 6, 2023 -
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What did we get for our 20-year wait? Something substantive, something deeply considered. [Jan 2024, p.87]- Mojo
- Posted Nov 30, 2023
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Progressive conceptual art, underpinned with profound personal resonances. [Jan 2024, p.87[- Mojo
Posted Nov 29, 2023 -
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A brave, stand-alone release that lays her talent bare, it's a beautiful unreal entrancement you'll find hard to stop listening to again and again. [Dec 2023, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Nov 21, 2023 -
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Into his eighth decade of unblinkered creativity, Hayward continues to thrill. [Dec 2023, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Nov 20, 2023 -
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The necessary and sustaining art-yin to their live knees-ups’ yang, with Theatre Of The Absurd… Madness have made an album that is among their absolute best. [Jan 2024, p.90]- Mojo
- Posted Nov 20, 2023
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The heavy-breathing White Rabbit and Scarper comes with a prickle of John Carpenter Menance, while Last Transmission or Imminent are hyper-vigilant Tangerine Dream. There are times when a less obviously doctored emotion bleeds through, though. [Jan 2024, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Nov 17, 2023 -
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This edition adds a 1999 concert. .... It's R.E.M. at their sweetest. [Jan 2023, p.99]- Mojo
Posted Nov 17, 2023 -
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The Complete Budokan 1978 is a richer picture of this restless nerve at work. [Jan 2024, p.101]- Mojo
Posted Nov 16, 2023 -
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Grace For Saints And Ramblers, from 2013's Ghost On host, is delivered with nonchalant Lou Reed rhythm; 2017's About A Bruise displays a freewheeling agility, while The Trapeze Swingers plus right into Beam's storytelling mode. [Jan 2024, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Nov 16, 2023 -
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When his sturdy tunes do hit the jackpot, one wonders why Kirsty MacColl's hit with A New England is such a rare cover. .... Like all political songsmiths, Bragg seeks to transcend the didactic and stir the blood, and largely succeeds. [Dec 2023, p.101]- Mojo
Posted Nov 15, 2023 -
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Unlikely to soundtrack your next dinner party, but it's hard not to marvel at Matmos's cut-and-paste mastery. [Jan 2023, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Nov 15, 2023 -
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Ultimately, Innerstanding finds Harrison marking out his own territory, sustaining a brooding musical atmosphere and filling it with sterling melodies. [Jan 2024, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Nov 15, 2023 -
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Pro-synth voluntaries like Znaniya (Falkor) can jar, but the highlights foreground Atwood-Ferguson as a widescreen visionary in the David Axelrod and Charles Stepney tradition, with a Rolodex of jazz hitters to call on. [Dec 2023, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Nov 15, 2023 -
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While the collection's title acknowledges the scary presence of three Misfits songs. As for "Mistakes", however, there really are none. [Dec 2023, p.105]- Mojo
Posted Nov 15, 2023 -
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Hatfield eschews radical reinventions, but her peeling away of the more finessed layers surrounding Lynne's indestructible melodies/chord sequences works a treat on Can't Get It out Of My head, Strange Magic and Telephone Line. [Nov 2023, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Nov 14, 2023 -
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Even if there are moments when Rockstar seems under-amped, you have to admire her chutzpah. [Jan 2024, p.89]- Mojo
Posted Nov 14, 2023 -
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"It's not too late to find where you are," he sings on The Tern; Hadsel seems to tremble on the brink of that revelation. [Dec 2023, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Nov 9, 2023 -
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If the crackle of original Dylan electrifies Marshall's voice, she finds her own phrasing, both robust and reverent, as she ringmasters Ballad Of A Thin Man's mystic forces, or brings a limpid empathy to Like A Rolling Stone. [Dec 2023, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Nov 7, 2023 -
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Reminiscent of early Nathaniel Rateliff and John Moreland, and prime John Prine, there's no reason here to doubt Martin might one day eclipse them all. [Dec 2023, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Nov 3, 2023 -
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If life's what you make it, here Anderson makes it sound very beautiful indeed. [Dec 2023, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Nov 3, 2023 -
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The quieter moments work best, like the moody, organ-led reworking of Shakin' All Over, which lesser bands have thrashed into the ground over the years but really shines here. [Dec 2023, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Nov 2, 2023 -
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Though Anderson buries his voice and words in the maelstrom, his declared (if not immediately) apparent) theme of a constantly thwarted search for "true love" seems right at home in shoegazing's characteristic marriage of bliss and anxiety. [Dec 2023, p.93]- Mojo
Posted Nov 2, 2023 -
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Los Angeles already feels like a destination record, Lee, Tolhurst and Budgie putting their decades of world-building expertise to excellent use. If the world they have built is on the brink of collapse, it only adds to the thrill. [Dec 2023, p.85]- Mojo
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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A queasy heat seeps into the Sonic Youth hiss and clang of My Little Tony, Jelsy's Bad Seeds metallic thrum and Shoo's slow, high plains drift. [Dec 2023, p.94]- Mojo
Posted Nov 1, 2023 -
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They are spare but complete, as rich as old letters or photographs. [Dec 2023, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Nov 1, 2023 -
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This new box set offers a ton of unreleased tracks (47 in total). Ranging from the ropey – Schoolyard sees him at the age of 32 singing about losing his virginity at 16 to, erk, a 14-year-old girl; Horny Pony features a toe-curling rap – to the bafflingly binned, they nonetheless provide real insight into Prince’s creative mind. Highlights include ghetto chronicle The Voice, jazz instrumental tribute Letter 4 Miles (recorded two days after his friend Davis’s death) and, best of all, the gently trippy Alice Through The Looking Glass. [Dec 2023, p.105]- Mojo
- Posted Oct 31, 2023
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