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Generally favorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings
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Positive: 48 out of 84
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Mixed: 12 out of 84
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Negative: 24 out of 84
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Jun 1, 2021
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BCMay 19, 2009I cannot believe this is rated 90...I saw them live with Nine Inch Nails and all the singer could do was touch herself and scream HARDCORE. Live: the singing sucked, but the dj was awesome so it gets a bit better then 1 for me.
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KirkVNApr 19, 2009How this one is called good music is beyond my comprehension. Strange ideas + electronic = utter bullsh*t.
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RaeRApr 12, 2009There was a time when I believed Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' was the worst album ever recorded. I've revisited my opinion and have come to the conclusion that it is the second worst album ever recorded. Poo-poo to all those arty poseurs who actually see artisitic merit in this shite DVD.
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JodieLDec 10, 2008
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AdamPNov 18, 2008
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TylerNov 16, 2008It's incredibly annoying.
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PitchforkmediaROct 30, 2008"Angry" is the worst song of all time, truly horrendous music. Sounds like reggaeton, avoid at all cost.
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JamesM.Sep 20, 2008This album is awful. I could no listen to it more then once.
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[Anonymous]Sep 14, 2008Overrated, of course.
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KeiJ.Sep 3, 2008I hate this, sounds like a bunch of angsty nigerian scam artists trying to make music to scam dumb white kids out of their money. Some of the production is decent. I give it a 2. AVOID.
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PaulC.Sep 1, 2008One of the examples of how metacritic's overall ranking system needs to be re-tooled. Perhaps this album is the greatest dubstep album ever, but the second or first best album of 2008? Not ever.
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Awards & Rankings
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The cumulative effect--somewhere around being lifted into the heavens by sunrays--is at odds with the continuous black clouds that come before. Yet it’s a necessary chink of light to conclude a journey so oppressive you may just forget to breathe through its duration.
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Considering the host of absolutely killer tracks, London Zoo might just be Kevin Martin's finest album, which is astounding considering the man has been making music for two decades.
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London Zoo provides the perfect showcase for its colourful menagerie of MCs and singers. And the Bug's no-nonsense clank and grind production fosters a rare intensity of focus on this album's higher purpose, which is to take the eloquence of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Michael Smith's Eighties dub-poetry, and blast it into digital hyperspace.