• Record Label: Polydor
  • Release Date: Oct 1, 2001
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21

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  1. MauricioB.
    Sep 4, 2002
    10
    a great album with amazing sounds!!!!!!!!!!! the rate does not pass 10 ill certainly give 12!!
  2. martink
    Mar 12, 2004
    10
    a beautiful piece
  3. AntonioC
    Oct 26, 2005
    10
    Magnificent,
  4. jamesa
    Mar 2, 2006
    10
    long live king monkey
  5. [Anonymous]
    Jun 28, 2006
    10
    bang on baby
  6. Jul 15, 2022
    10
    I'd give this masterpiece a 20/10, but since we've been limited to 10 only, I'll settle for 10 then.
  7. aaronw
    Feb 6, 2004
    8
    this is not groundbreaking, but it is a perfect display of ian browns mellow stoned lyrics and downtempo beats, it works well and improves with repeat listens.
Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. No song is quite right: a lyric about angels or elephants here, a trip-hop beat there, and even the Milky Way would blush.
  2. Mojo
    70
    Somewhere in there Brown's murmurous vocals and the lyrics tend to get lost. [Sep 2001, p.99]
  3. An improvement over his lo-fi solo debut and his over-produced second disc, but it misses as often as it hits.