Night Shades - Cobra Starship
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • 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: 3 out of 6
  2. Negative: 2 out of 6
  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
  2. As a whole, the album is incoherent yet repetitive. The overuse of some electronic sounds is annoying at times. Nevertheless, Night Shades has some pretty decent tracks, which are all great and suitable for club and party. Expand
  3. The latest album by alternative rock/pop band, COBRA STARSHIP, is a good but disappointing addition to their discography. The band has now decided to venture into different music genres, pop and dance. This album is one of their weakest and isnâ Expand
  4. 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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