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Mojo

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Mojo

Twelfth studio album and first for eight years from the legendary American rock band formed in 1976

ADM rating[?]

7.0

Label
Warner Bros
UK Release date
14/06/2010
  1. 10.0 |   The Independent

    There's a steely confidence about the album right from the opening riff of "Jefferson Jericho Blues", whose unison guitar and harmonica groove rolls along with the Corvette power of a Chess Records classic
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  2. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    A typically downbeat statement of intent, but loose-limbed and unashamedly twangy
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  3. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    If the band rocks like a working party of experts, don't let that bring you down. They do it like they mean it
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  4. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    A masterclass in bluesy songcraft
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  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    It has some of the most well-written songs he’s released since at least as far back as 1985’s Southern Accents and, song for song, it maybe the finest recording of the band’s career
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  6. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Mojo is dynamite – Petty and the Heartbreakers' matured return to the elementary fury of their first golden-twang era
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  7. 8.0 |   Blurt

    The most satisfying studio release from Petty in a decade or more
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  8. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  9. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   Rave Magazine

    The fairly standard production hides some pretty good songs though, especially towards the end of the record with tracks like High In The Morning and Something Good Coming
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  11. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Mojo is ultimately undone by the very virtuosity of its creators: the band stumbles repeatedly into that musicians’ trap of making music that sounds intended principally to impress other musicians
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  12. 6.0 |   The Times

    The expertly languid tone of the bluesy guitars feels like an unhurried jam session between old friends
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  13. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Basically, there’s too much in-the-studio and not enough live. It’s all just too polite
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  14. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    There are sparks of life in the rollicking country rock of US 41 and the spiralling riff of First Flash of Freedom, but it's all very polite
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  15. 4.0 |   BBC

    The results are initially quite perky, as the band crash and charge through songs, but after a couple of plays everything becomes rather dull
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