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Immolate Yourself
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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the third album for the Chicago-based duo of Josh Eustis and Charlie Cooper (who passed away on January 22, 2009).

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Slant Magazine
    90
    Immolate Yourself does a lot and does it all well, creating an album that adds explicit punctuation to an already shocking loss.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    80
    It’s a confident outing from an outfit with all the right reasons to be confident, a unified and often arresting record with few qualms about what it’s supposed to be.
  3. AllMusic
    80
    These are chilling sounds from a dark place that, nonetheless, shelter the listener. Between the European and stateside physical releases of the album, Cooper passed away. Knowledge of that could only intensify the album's most passive spins.
  4. cokemachineglow
    77
    Immolate Yourself feels like a transitional record from an act that was almost ready to make itself crystal clear.
  5. The Boston Phoenix
    75
    Telefon Tel Aviv have always been the product of two drives (both senses), but on Immolate Yourself, for the first time, the workflows of Cooper and Eustis merge a single, renewed vision. They go a bit poppier than they've ever gone, yet it's also their darkest work.
  6. Prefix Magazine
    65
    The album conjures up equal measures of frustration and dejection, especially as it bears all the hallmarks of a band growing in stature, who may have just delivered on all that untapped potential on a finely honed fourth or fifth record.
  7. PopMatters
    50
    While it is understandable that Telefon Tel Aviv wanted to explore the styles conducive to being on one of the premier dance labels in Berlin’s robust music scene, it just does not feel right for some reason, especially in comparison to the fractured brilliance of their first two studio endeavors.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. LindaM.
    Mar 1, 2009
    10
    To me, Immolatre Yourself is Magnificent...yes! it is a Musical Masterpiece!!! I listen to this Music to start my day, in the car on Josh and To me, Immolatre Yourself is Magnificent...yes! it is a Musical Masterpiece!!! I listen to this Music to start my day, in the car on Josh and Charlesthe way home, while preparing dinner, to fall asleep and finally to inspire my Dreams!! Josh and Charles, I have and will always love all that you have shared with me! I love you! Linda… Expand
  2. MattA
    Feb 7, 2009
    9
    Awesome. Plain and simple. Great beats that mellow out your soul and open your mind.

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