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A true supergroup -- a set of songs that might be superior to either group's work separately.
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May 24, 2011It's an unusual back-and-forth that delivers rapturous results on the seven piece band's sophomore record Own Your Ghost.
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While it's a coalition of fantastic talents, Themselves submit to the expectations of a pussy glitch-pop crowd, and the Notwist mistakenly assume that hip-hop fans don't want songs with dynamism or structure.
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A creeper, an album of broad gestures that reveal vivid, flickering details over time, its pleasures unfolding as what it actually is gradually erases speculative notions of what it might be.
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The members of 13 & God have created a genuinely rewarding record that is better than the sum of its parts.
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This is anticon at their most approachable and reflective and should be filed on your shelf somewhere near Dosh, Boards of Canada and Arcade Fire.
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While there's a sense that both artists went a bit too heavy on dark atmosphere, given that both usually inject more whimsy into their creations, 13 & God is still a consistently intriguing, frequently beautiful experiment that offers ample rewards with each new listen.
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In execution, 13&God is a surprisingly sombre album that'll appeal to fans of forward-thinking hip-hop and beyond.
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13&God represents less a marriage of rock and rap than it does a meeting of weird with slightly-less-weird.
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It wouldn't be inconceivable to describe 13 & God as the predictable outcome of a Notwist/Themselves collaboration, but, considering the degree of originality demonstrated, this is by no means a shortcoming.
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This is the kind of one-off collaboration that will have fans hoping for a follow-up, because you get the feeling these highly talented musicians have barely scratched the surface.
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Fans of each respective artist may scratch their head a bit when first hearing 13 & God, but it will mostly make sense after awhile. If it doesn't, it's probably not supposed to.
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Under The RadarA shiny gem of a record. [#9]
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UncutCertainly worth investigation. [Jun 2005, p.102]
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Alternative PressExactly what you'd expect from the involved parties. [May 2005, p.138]
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Q MagazineA winning combination. [Jun 2005, p.120]
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FilterManages to artfully encompass all that sucks about post-pubescent life... within an exquisite ball of heady poetry, cold composition, and the kind of warm brilliance that comes from only the most inspired of collaborations. [#15, p.96]
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The WireThis intriguing, relatively mild entente between elegiac melodicism and freeform lyrics has many moments of quiet innovation. [#256, p.63]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Mixed: 1 out of 23
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Negative: 3 out of 23
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wizzaMar 2, 2007Hopefully Timeless. I absoilutely LOVE this record.
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JessicaBJan 21, 2007This album is a thousand times better than anything The Notwist or Themselves has ever done seperately.
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brandiMar 29, 2006all around good music