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Generally favorable reviews- based on 84 Ratings
User score distribution:
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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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MikeGOct 3, 2008I put this album on to read to, but immediately had an urge to dance. Solid sounds from start to finish.
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AlanR.Sep 10, 2008Totally underrated. More!
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FilmoreH.Sep 10, 2008Makes No Doubt's "Rock Steady" look like the banal pop turd it is. The Bug owns 2008.
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AaronB.Oct 12, 2008Masterpiece. Incredibly creative.
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CailyD.Sep 11, 2008Judging from what they play in clubs these days, I'd say this album is tremendously underrated. I've never felt more like dancing than when this album is on. I can't explain it.
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MattHNov 24, 2008Brilliant, unrelentingly dark and - somehow - fun. "London Zoo" is a masterpiece of menacing beats, gloomy atmospherics and talented guest vocalists.
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EricC.Aug 31, 2008The sound of the backlash is deafening. I can already see the angry user reviews from people who aren't in to dubstep, but who bought this anyway because it's one of the top albums of the year. It happened to Burial and ambient albums from Field and Stars of the Lid. It will happen again.
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OlaoluJ.Sep 24, 2008
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MrASep 8, 2008The energy of this album is fantastic, I get lost in the textures, awesome!
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OllieHMar 11, 2009
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michaelRAug 1, 2009The songs on this album have an amazing abilty to pump me up. It helps me in the gym.
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BrandoS.Aug 28, 2008The vocals took a bit to get used to, but gradually i fell for the album. the music is great and even better if you have a good stereo to crank it up. it's a grower not a shower.
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ElliottMSep 13, 2008Ditto Eric C.
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GuyHSep 22, 2008
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AnthonyC.Sep 13, 2008Slightly overrated. still excellent, though.
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WesM.Sep 3, 2008Uniformly strong if not consistently groundbreaking dancehall.
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AndreaD.Sep 25, 2008I've listen for the first time the dubstep and this genre has impresse me very positively! Basses are incredible on all the cd! Skeng, Angry, Judgment get 10/10, Warning , Fuckaz, Jah War 8/10, all the others 7/10..then... all the cd get an 8.. A particular mantion to the song Skang.. the rap on this song is amazing!
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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.