Amok - Atoms for Peace
Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 49 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 49
  3. Negative: 0 out of 49
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  1. Mixmag
    Mar 15, 2013
    100
    Producer Nigel Godrich has made of this a modern masterclass--and one that sets the bar for collaborations extremely high.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Feb 26, 2013
    100
    Awash with beats, rhythms, electronics, the occasional guitar and Yorke's soaring if still mostly unintelligible tenor, Amok is a record to get sonically lost within, a work whose every measure teems with a quality and a precision that only musicians at the top of their game can touch.
  3. The A.V. Club
    Feb 26, 2013
    91
    The chief difference between AMOK and The King Of Limbs is how alive and invested AMOK sounds, almost as if it’s a do-over of the frequently airless Limbs.
  4. Delusions of Adequacy
    Mar 22, 2013
    90
    Amok is a tenaciously rich and strong album that is certainly the work of gifted musicians.
  5. Clash Music
    Feb 21, 2013
    90
    It’s a dense work that’ll be discovered thriving equally happily in the niche of teenage bedrooms as in underground cults and a nebulous haze of mushrooming Mixcloud communiqués extending over the horizon.
  6. Uncut
    Feb 7, 2013
    90
    This seamless synthesis of sinew and silicon is crucial to the album's slippery feel: there's a pleasing fluidity and crooked funkiness to the arrangements that Yorke sometimes struggled to achieve on The Eraser. [Mar 2013, p.66]
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  7. The Boston Phoenix
    Feb 26, 2013
    88
    AMOK is as heady and immersive as any great Radiohead album, but those comparisons eventually wilt: Yorke's new band has discovered a symmetry all its own.
  8. Pretty Much Amazing
    Feb 22, 2013
    83
    AMOK is a surprisingly unassuming album in that way; each song has worthwhile hooks and accessibility is favored over abstract experiments.
  9. Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM)
    Feb 27, 2013
    82
    As a product of Yorke’s mind, AMOK represents a measurable progression over The Eraser. It’s more experimental, varied, nuanced, and likeable.

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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 69 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. harawi
    10
    What AMOK isn’t (as the critics so obsessed with extra-musical baggage would have you believe) is some overwrought super-group experiment. Whahat it is, though, is a collection of deftly arranged, pulsating, driving songs. Thom Yoke’s vocals songwriting are at their best here, marrying beautifully slow melodies to quick rhythmic patterns (“Before Your Very Eyes”); subtly altering the phrasing of a repeated lyric (creating a hypnotic, climatic effect on “Unless”); and is at its warmest and most affectionate (“Ingenue”). Beautiful, deep record that reveals itself more and more through each repeated listen.… Full Review »
  2. Frikomid
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I find this album a great one. I find people dislikes this album because it sounds like Thom Yorke and not like Radiohead, but, What's the problem? This album is great from the first song to the last song (the one i think is the best).… Full Review »
  3. mooneyse
    9
    It's the natural progression Yorke's work seems to be taking, putting more distance between himself and the early work of Radiohead. As ever, though, the sound is original and there's enough in it to keep the listener entertained until Radiohead get back in the studio.… Full Review »
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