Paranoid Cocoon
by Cotton Jones
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. AllMusic
    80
    Paranoid Cocoon establishes its sound early, so anybody initially put off by all of the cloudy skies and soft, neo-psychedelic mountain melancholy will inevitably come away disappointed, but fans of James Yorkston, Richard Hawley, M. Ward, and mild hangovers will eat this up, and rightly so.
  2. Filter
    88
    Paranoid Cocoon is a Sunday morning treat. [Holiday 2008, p.105]
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  3. Paste Magazine
    79
    Overall, Paranoid Cocoon's bedroom chamber pop spins with variety and subtle dissonances aplenty.
  5. Pitchfork
    58
    It also probably means that we'll be getting something new from Nau the next time around. Switching between musical characters is obviously Nau's default setting, and for all of its pleasantness, Paranoid Cocoon, in the context of his career thus far, feels like transition music over a costume change.
  6. Rolling Stone
    60
    On their debut disc, Nau and McGraw craft jazzy folk peppered with pianos, strings and organs, and drive them with down-home vocal harmonies.
  7. Tiny Mix Tapes
    50
    Each song feels like it belongs as filler between other more upbeat tracks. Isolated, some of the tracks can be enjoyable, but as an album, Paranoid Cocoon disappoints.
  8. Under The Radar
    70
    It's a relaxed and confident debut packed with enough reverb, organs, and dreamy sensuality to keep you warm on any windy winter evening. [Year End 2008, p.76]
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User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Jhmang
    Jun 15, 2014
    8
    This movie is about leisure of the elderly and contact with aliens. I’ll focus on their leisure in this movie paper. The Main characters,This movie is about leisure of the elderly and contact with aliens. I’ll focus on their leisure in this movie paper. The Main characters, three old men love to go neighbor’s pool and swim secretly. Swimming is their most favorite leisure. According to it, swimming seems to be their “core” of leisure activities. “Core” represents continuity in leisure and core leisure is easily accessible and low cost. I think they enjoyed swimming when they were young so they keep swimming and feel joy from this leisure even if they are very old now.
    Strangely, they become healthy and younger after they swim in their neighbor’s pool. In the movie, it’s because of ‘cocoon’ but in the real life actually swimming does a lot for people’s whole body. So like swimming, one of the roles of leisure in physical development in adulthood is keeping oneself in good health. Especially, older people try to exercise by leisure.
    In the movie, Bunny’s wife, Rosa died suddenly. Bunny was overwhelmed with sorrow and refused his friends suggestion to go another planet. Her death means his most significant person and also his companion in leisure is gone.
    In this movie's contents, older adults who are part of well-defined friendship groups tend to have higher morale. We can see all this in the movie ‘Cocoon’. Three old men seems to be happy when they have leisure life together.    … Full Review »
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