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- Summary: The third full-length release for the Edinburgh-based trio was recorded in the band's studio.
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- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 21 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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Mar 12, 2018It feels just as estranged of pop’s traditional structures and strictures as they’ve always been. It feels exhilarating; it feels like freedom.
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Mar 8, 2018This is a far more stripped down, stream-lined record that remains just as essential and urgent as all their output so far with little to no compromise.
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Mar 12, 2018With this record Young Fathers have managed a perfect synthesis between what they are saying and how they choose to present that sonically. Yes, this is a highly political and experimental record, but it is also a brilliant pop album.
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Mar 8, 2018The end result is fascinating and forbidding in equal measure, and there’s clearly an argument that it’s also very timely: twisted and broken-sounding pop music for a twisted and broken era, replete with villains (the protagonist of In My View, a “greedy bugger”, actively enjoying not just the taste of his foie gras, but the cruelty of its manufacture) and lyrics that appear to swipe at nationalism and toxic masculinity, albeit obliquely.
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Apr 10, 2018Cocoa Sugar mystifies before it gratifies, but it reflects a modern global chaos as much as it does a personal one.
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Mar 13, 2018Cocoa Sugar is a record that merits mass appeal recognition, a timely offering educing the moral panic fever reigning over our everyday existence.
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Mar 16, 2018The songs on Cocoa Sugar are unquestionably Young Fathers’ most accessible. They have a sense of a narrative flow and an overarching theme, but they’re still knotty and confounding.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Mar 21, 2018
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Mar 13, 2018
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Jul 23, 2018Cocoa Sugar has some great melodies. The best experimental album I've heard in a while.
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