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Cryptomnesia
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Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews What's this?

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5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: The first album of three recorded in 2006 by the side project of Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    90
    Each offering here is meter-perfect and crafted instinctively to flat-out destroy the boundaries of rock music.
  2. The New York Times
    70
    The album makes a thorough, nerve-tingling plunge into the Mars Volta’s maelstrom available to shorter attention spans.
  3. AllMusic
    70
    Cryptomnesia is a tough, rugged, and wildly ambitious set of far-reaching--sometimes overly so--compositions reflecting the rapid growth of one of the new century's most genuinely talented and visionary musicians.
  4. Pitchfork
    48
    Awe is in the ear of the beholder, sure, but after being predictably pounded into the ground for half an hour by Rodriguez-Lopez/Hill et al. and their bag of heavy tricks, it's hard to tell if we're meant to walk away impressed or oppressed.
  5. Sputnikmusic
    20
    The album is pure homogeneous shitheap of stream-of-consciousness turgidity nonsense that strives to be different and to take you “somewhere else” but in the end really just ends up being hilariously bad and hilariously derivative of his past work and despite the frequent “so-weird-it’s-almost-cool” moments it still just plain sucks hardcore.

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  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. SimonB
    May 23, 2009
    10
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