Night Shades - Cobra Starship
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  • Summary: The New York-based electro-pop band release their fourth studio album.
  • Record Label: Fueled by Ramen Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Dance-Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Emo-Pop
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Aug 30, 2011
    70
    Packing so many WTFs into one ten-song record is hardly fair, a bit reckless, and ultimately (amazingly) successful.
  2. 67
    Cobra were more fun as party crashers than they are as VIPs.
  3. Aug 30, 2011
    60
    Saporta can't tune out his favorite decade, adopting a silky croon on "Anything for Love," a synth-pop winner that might've been a real hit in 1986.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. NIGHT SHADES is probably their worst album; it's drenched in auto-tune and the tracks sounds familiar. It lack's the originality and fun of the previous albums. But even though it has these problems, the album is good and not the worst thing I have ever heard. Expand
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  2. A rather disappointing addition to Cobra Starship's discography that still manages to have some good songs to it, but ends up being rather forgetable.
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  3. It's almost as if Cobra Starship created Night Shades in fear of judgement. Too determined to meet mainstream's standards, Cobra Starship lost touch with their creative side in their worst album to date. They may be even hard to consider a band anymore due to the lack of instruments in Night Shades. The sad part is that there is a little potential in some of the almost "Vintage" pop sounds we hear in tracks like "Fool Like Me," where it seems like they were trying to make this album stand out from the others. Unfortunately, Cobra Starship fell through on that by seeking hype out of recruiting the "flavor of the week" pop stars such as Mac Miller, and then forgetting to actually write a song. Expand
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