London Zoo
- The Bug
- Band Name: The Bug
- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Release Date: Aug 12, 2008
- Summary: The third album for the artist/music producer Kevin Martin as The Bug.
- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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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.
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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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80The lyrical presence and content of guests is what sets London Zoo apart from other dubstep producers.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 33
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Mixed: 4 out of 33
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Negative: 11 out of 33
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10
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AndreaD.8
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TImA5
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Tyler3It's incredibly annoying.
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