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Production

EMAILPRINTby Mirwais

Mirwais reviews
73
9.0 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 11 critic reviews
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Album Info

Label: Epic

Release Date: 27 February 2001

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Dance, Electronic

Summary

'Production' is a solo album from the French producer best known for his work with Madonna (who returns the favor by adding vocals to one track here).

What The Critics Said

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91

Entertainment Weekly

For all its irrepressible sonic whimsy, Production also reveals quite a bit of unexpected depth.

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80

Alternative Press

Filled with laid-back, intelligent electronica equally suited to dancing and chilling, Production ultimately succeeds through its deft combination of strikingly disparate elements. [#153, p.79]

80

Sonicnet

It's all remarkably effective. In capturing "the ghost in the machine," Mirwais has made a most warm and humane album.

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80

CDNow

Mirwais lays down grooves that aren't even sensual; they're rambunctiously horny.

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80

All Music Guide

A collection of songs that are as clever and intelligently crafted as they are danceable.

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73

Wall of Sound

Production is a dance record, but Mirwais is no mere slave to the rhythm. While other artists keep the BPM pumped up, the songs here drift and simmer. "V.I. (The Last Words She Said Before Leaving," for example, creeps along at a funereal pace for more than six minutes and doesn't catch much of a beat until four minutes in.

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70

Mixer

Unrestrained by the limits of producing a radio-friendly album, Mirwais produced an excellent album that can be appreciated by both fans and critics of Madonna. [Apr 2001, p.92]

63

Spin Cycle

Something of a mixed bag, "Production" teeters between grating aimlessness and uniquely dark, claustrophobically compressed runs through the Vocoder-happy lands of French house music.

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60

Revolution

The only real disappointment is the sub-Air styling of "Naive Song," its vocoded lyrics sounding almost like a pastiche of his fellow Frenchmen's work. [Sept 2000, p.113]

60

Rolling Stone

Cerebral, meticulous and frivolous, Production is a disco-science celebration of pop trash that most electronica gurus would be too spiritually elevated to deliver. Mirwais' knack for song puts him in another league altogether

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40

The Onion (A.V. Club)

What could have been a huge breakthrough instead sounds staid, as if he were so used to rocking the house that he didn't want to risk rocking the boat.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

teo p gave it a10:
the best album of 2001

Jean R. gave it a 10:
One of the best albums of 2000! Each song symbolizes something special in its own way! Brilliant sound effects and PRODUCTION!

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