• Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: Mar 15, 2011
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Jun 5, 2018
    6
    Ehh. It's alright. I give it a C. Uh I don't like the vocals on it. That's about it. I don't know that's it. That's all I'm giving. Is that what the review you're giving is?
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62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Sep 23, 2011
    40
    Seventy-five minutes from the ambitious Atlantans untangles an actual hook in "Quintessence," but perennial "Mother Puncher" and Melvins closer "The Bit" batten down the goods vs. Crackthe Skye: The Movie jumbling a 50-minute New Age Russian silent.
  2. Q Magazine
    May 18, 2011
    60
    But for some off-key warbling, they might have slapped some crowd noise over the fantastically bonkers original. [May 2011, p.115]
  3. Apr 26, 2011
    60
    Things loosen up on older material (a thrashing "Aqua Dementia"), and the band do a punishing cover of the Melvins' 1996 psych-sludge gem "The Bit." Replacing the original's sitar with Hinds' 12-string guitar roar, Mastodon again prove themselves broad-minded headbangers.