• Record Label: Ipecac
  • Release Date: Aug 19, 2008
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. The music may not always be easily accessible, but it is almost always interesting.
  2. It might not quite pay off as an album in the traditional sense, but in the era of iTunes playlists and vanishingly brief attention spans, Mugiboogie comes packed full of valuable ammunition.
  3. At its best, Mugiboogie sounds a bit like Spoon, if they were kind of insane and way into Primus.
  4. Mugison's vigorous showmanship--effectively conjuring the writhing, sweaty-browed anguish of a man of the cloth who's been caught in a by-the-hour motel with his pants down--isn't always enough to elevate his songs beyond genre exercises.
  5. Mugiboogie is an exercise in emotional indie that de-crescendos from brooding psychedelic thrash metal to indigenous melancholy ballads without hesitation.
  6. 60
    Though he inexplicably apes Slayer once again ('I'm Alright'), the tempered ingenuity is an encouraging turn.
  7. Under The Radar
    60
    The confident genre-jumping of these contrasting songs makes for a bizarre journey, but tere's so much here, you're bound to find something you like. [Fall 2008, p.87]

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