C.A.R.
by Serengeti
  • Record Label: Anticon
  • Release Date: Jun 26, 2012
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Rolling Stone
    Aug 23, 2012
    70
    Serengeti's drawling, pregnant-pause- filled flow is one to remember.
  2. Expert Witness (MSN Music)
    Aug 21, 2012
    91
    Anticon minimalist Odd Nosdam provides all the beats Geti needs, and when your mind wanders, quite often the music alone carries you along.
  3. Q Magazine
    Aug 20, 2012
    60
    This latest ventures proves equally unconventional [as his collaboration with Sufjan Stevens and his Kenny Dennis EP], the half-hour running time and Cohn's deadbeat rhymes both at odds with the rap mainstream. [Sep 2012, p.111]
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  5. RapReviews.com
    Aug 14, 2012
    70
    Any fans of mainstream hip hop, probably wouldn't touch this with a 20 foot pole. But fans of Def Jux, Anticon, even some Rhymesayers will definitely see the appeal of Geti's lyricism and storytelling.
  6. CMJ
    Aug 2, 2012
    80
    There are no throwaway songs about weed, women or cars here, just 11 separate streams of consciousness, each with subtle lyrical and instrumental nuances.
  7. Consequence
    Aug 2, 2012
    70
    There's a positive, loose, and improvised feeling that runs throughout, but altogether, C.A.R. can feel a little unfinished in parts.
  8. Pitchfork
    Aug 2, 2012
    76
    C.A.R. is an excellent, devastating record, a chronicle of the amiable pessimism and occasional nihilism of a rapping Bukowski who can't seem to find a way out of the condition in which he finds himself.
  9. The Boston Phoenix
    Aug 2, 2012
    88
    On C.A.R., Cohn finds a loophole to get one of those rad concepts out of just that: a depressive who longs for suburban utopia.

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