200 Tons Of Bad Luck - Crippled Black Phoenix
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  • Summary: The second album for the supergroup of musicians from such bands as Mogwai, Pantheist, Gonga, and Electric Wizard.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. The guitar-led epic soundscapes, choral chanting, woeful strings and portent keys on their debut 'A Love Of Shared Disasters' are still present.
  2. 80
    Over the course of 80 compelling minutes they roam laggardly through rural post-rock, prog, folk, ambient and doom metal pastures without ever trying your patience. [May 2009, p.80]
  3. 60
    This 77-minute abbreviation includes the 18-minute triptych 'Time Of Ye Life/Born For Nothing/Paranoid Arm Of Narcoleptic Empire, typifying CBP's simmering conflagration of Mogwai, Godspeed! and The God Machine. [May 2009, p.109]

See all 7 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. CarlS
    10
    The individual disc is only half as good as the double album (The Resurrectionists & Night Raider), but still chronicles most of the better songs, and works pretty well as a stand-alone. Seek out or download the full double album to get the complete experience though, it won't leave you disappointed. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. SmazzK.
    10
    Perfect post-rock. The new Floyd....well closest yet.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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