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Production - Mirwais
  • Band Name: Mirwais
  • Record Label: Epic
  • Release Date: Feb 27, 2001
Metascore
73 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    For all its irrepressible sonic whimsy, Production also reveals quite a bit of unexpected depth.
  2. Sonicnet
    80
    It's all remarkably effective. In capturing "the ghost in the machine," Mirwais has made a most warm and humane album.
  3. All Music Guide
    80
    A collection of songs that are as clever and intelligently crafted as they are danceable.
  4. Alternative Press
    80
    Filled with laid-back, intelligent electronica equally suited to dancing and chilling, Production ultimately succeeds through its deft combination of strikingly disparate elements. [#153, p.79]
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  5. CDNow
    80
    Mirwais lays down grooves that aren't even sensual; they're rambunctiously horny.
  6. Wall of Sound
    73
    Production is a dance record, but Mirwais is no mere slave to the rhythm. While other artists keep the BPM pumped up, the songs here drift and simmer. "V.I. (The Last Words She Said Before Leaving," for example, creeps along at a funereal pace for more than six minutes and doesn't catch much of a beat until four minutes in.
  7. Mixer
    70
    Unrestrained by the limits of producing a radio-friendly album, Mirwais produced an excellent album that can be appreciated by both fans and critics of Madonna. [Apr 2001, p.92]
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  8. Spin Cycle
    63
    Something of a mixed bag, "Production" teeters between grating aimlessness and uniquely dark, claustrophobically compressed runs through the Vocoder-happy lands of French house music.
  9. Revolution
    60
    The only real disappointment is the sub-Air styling of "Naive Song," its vocoded lyrics sounding almost like a pastiche of his fellow Frenchmen's work. [Sept 2000, p.113]
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  10. Rolling Stone
    60
    Cerebral, meticulous and frivolous, Production is a disco-science celebration of pop trash that most electronica gurus would be too spiritually elevated to deliver. Mirwais' knack for song puts him in another league altogether
  11. The A.V. Club
    40
    What could have been a huge breakthrough instead sounds staid, as if he were so used to rocking the house that he didn't want to risk rocking the boat.
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9.0 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. teop
    10
    the best album of 2001
  2. JeanR.
    10
    One of the best albums of 2000! Each song symbolizes something special in its own way! Brilliant sound effects and PRODUCTION!
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