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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With its meticulous ebb and flow, Time Is Glass is best approached in a single sitting. [May 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Apr 29, 2024 -
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Ultimately hit and miss, Justice's gift for arena-friendly hooks remains undimmed. [May 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Apr 25, 2024 -
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A certain rock'n'roll energy is lacking. .... Think: transitional. [Jun 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Apr 24, 2024 -
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Octopoidal, Milford Graves-style fee jazz, miraculously achieving a sort of zen clarity. [Jun 2024, p.92]- Mojo
Posted Apr 23, 2024 -
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Never overwrought, A La Sala is a cool exercise in the beauty of restraint and understated groove mastery, exploring new vistas without subverting Khruangbin's blueprint. [Jun 2024, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Apr 23, 2024 -
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Ramona has a very on-Broadway energy. There are occasional Blue Hotel lapses, but I'm Getting Married To The War or A Precious Thing come across like a rock opera Aldous Harding, while title track - inspired by Bob Dylan's 1964 song To Ramona - is the third curtain-call Patti Smith. The force of her voice alone earths these songs. [May 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Apr 12, 2024 -
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The group takes aim at the deadening effect of copywriting, the need for bands to "have so many things to sell you" and the conspicuous tastefulness of some online music fans. Unsubtle but often archly funny, this commentary goes down easier thanks to a melodically complex tunefulness that consistently serve up gems. [May 2024, p.82]- Mojo
Posted Apr 9, 2024 -
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It's the LP's sparer, outward-looking, more spontaneous-sounding songs which house the best melodies. [May 2024, p.85]- Mojo
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Posted Mar 18, 2024 -
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Despite one-time Rudimental leader Amir Amor's rather flat production and the dearth of all-out tub-thumpers beyond the wry The Lads, they've transformed themselves inti a differently beguiling proposition. [Mar 2024, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Mar 4, 2024 -
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It really shouldn't work, but like much of It Leads To This, it does. [Mar 2024, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Mar 1, 2024 -
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The melancholy feels more goth than hippy and, ultimately, both the sounds and lyrics feel unresolved. [Apr 2024, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Feb 21, 2024 -
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She's still drawn to the edges like a death's-head moth to an inferno, but once you are in Wolfe's distinctive headspace, it's easy to believe they are her comfort zone, and maybe even yours. [Mar 2025, p.85]- Mojo
Posted Feb 6, 2024 -
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But, for all the technical proficiency, there's a sense of nobody ushing themselves too hard. [Mar 2024, p.91]- Mojo
Posted Feb 2, 2024 -
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Tapir!'s considerable world-building skills impress, even if seven-minute closer Mountain Song seems a little directionless. [Feb 2024, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Feb 2, 2024 -
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After the initial shock, the pair's songwriting smarts cuts through persuasively, alongside strong messaging about acknowledging your needs and vulnerabilities. [Feb 2024, p.88]- Mojo
Posted Jan 26, 2024 -
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There's no doubt Mackenzie Scott never stops moving here, switching between gothic sway, grungy stomp and electro-pop gyration, but it can make it hard to catch her eye in a meaningful way. [Mar 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jan 23, 2024 -
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New ground is not broken, but happily, neither are they. [Jan 2024, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Jan 22, 2024 -
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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
Posted Dec 8, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Even when further adrift from the lost funk sampledelia that made his name, Shadow's production brilliance shines through. [Dec 2023, p.90]- Mojo
Posted Oct 26, 2023 -
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No new ground is broken, but everyone emerges unscathed. [Dec 2023, p.86]- Mojo
Posted Oct 26, 2023 -
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Ultimately, the thrills on The Silver Cord are intermittent, but you have to admire Gizzard's relentless pursuit of the next high. [Dec 2023, p.87]- Mojo
Posted Oct 25, 2023