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A Crow Left Of The Murder
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 11 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 71 votes
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Album Info
Label: Epic
Release Date: 03 February 2004
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock, Metal
Summary
The alt-metal band's first album since their 2001 hit 'Morning View' features a slightly different lineup, with Ben Kenney replacing bassist Dirk Lance. Brendan O'Brien produced.
Also By This Artist: Light Grenades Morning View
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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All Music Guide
Far more interesting than any of their other records, or their peers'.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times
"Crow" is a striking redefinition, an album that roars and twitches with the raw, aggressive, fury of urgent rock activism.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
The band still indulges in plenty of effects-happy instrumental gymnastics and tricky rhythms, but A Crow Left of the Murder . . . is also its most consistently tune-based album.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
An ambitious and surprisingly accomplished album. [May 2004, p.104]
Mojo
Explores Incubus' inner jam band. [Feb 2004, p.94]
Blender
His bandmates... elevate Boyd's self-indulgent nonsense with rich noodling and searing flashes of metal. [Mar 2004, p.120]
Dot Music
There’s conceivably a great record still lurking inside this band but you’re going to have to wait just a bit longer to hear it.
Read Full Review >Spin
Suddenly, these longtime collaborators seem like a mismatch worthy of Blind Date. [Mar 2004, p.95]
E! Online
Too much of the disc is filtered through clinical and slightly jazzy rock that renders it a tiny noise about nothing.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
Tuneless, torturously knotty prog-metal. [13 Feb 2004, p.72]
Logo
There’s little in the way of straightforward rock here[;] instead they have opted to renege on their commitment to flat-four crunch and embrace melodicism...and experimentalism.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 71 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Thomas B gave it a9:
These reviews genuinely make me angry. "Too much of the disc is filtered through clinical and slightly jazzy rock that renders it a tiny noise about nothing."? Since when did E! have any real legitimacy anyway? A baseless insult like "tuneless" is just infuriating to me. This album shows how beautiful a rock band can sound when they're willing to embrace jazz and experimentation. If there's any mediocrity it takes place in the writing of these reviewers.
Joshua S. gave it a9:
Wait...I'm sure I just read that they're becoming another Linkin Park name ONE song that sounds like Linkin Park on the album, and if you can, then that means you are lying. Mike Einziger has a completely different style of playing guitar, Jose Pasillas is a better drummer and Ben Kenney is a better bassist. and Brandon Boyd can sing better. Talk Shows On Mute, Here In My Room, Zee Deveel, Made For TV Movie, Southern Girl, Beware! Criminal...every song is completely different to anything in the Linkin Park collection. "Tuneless, tortuously knotty prog-metal" also being a completely false statement.
Dennis E. gave it an8:
Really great album, not as great as science or morning view though. Megalomanic, ACLOTM, agoraphobia, talk shows on mute, sick sad little world are all very good songs, unfortunately between numbers 7 and 11 there are few dissappointments, like pistola and priceless. The last few songs are once again awesome, I love made for tv movie, here in my room and leech... Overall good album, especially because they had already made 4 albums and just keep on managing to create a complete different sound on every album.
Dave N gave it a9:
This is the sound the band has been searching for since releasing Fungus Amungus. Incubus always has released great CDs, but there lurked awkward moments within those CDs that showed the band hadn't reached its creative peak. Whle this CD doesn't sound as good as Make Yourself, its stronger musically and shows the evolution of the band.
Anonymous gave it a9:
Ill album, they had better stuff, but still an ill album
Brian D gave it a10:
Its Incubus, need I say more.
huddy gave it a10:
the fact of the matter is yes its different from all their other albums but thats the great thing about incubus they reinvent themselves on every album and a crow left of the murder is a nother perfect album my the band
