Rub
by Peaches
  • Record Label: N/A
  • Release Date: Sep 25, 2015
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Magnet
    Oct 14, 2015
    80
    Rub still happily rubs listeners the wrong-right way with crass, curt tunes. [No. 125, p.61]
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  2. The Quietus
    Oct 7, 2015
    80
    Rub is an album of well-sheened extremes.
  3. Q Magazine
    Oct 1, 2015
    80
    Rub reboots the elements that made The Teaches Of Peaches the essential electroclash album back in 2000. [Nov 2015, p.113]
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  5. PopMatters
    Sep 28, 2015
    80
    On Rub the beats are thicker, filthier, and the experimental production work actually seems more cohesive than many of her previous efforts. Occasionally throughout these ten tracks, a dark rage and malevolence surfaces, something that hasn’t really been witnessed since her debut.
  6. The Observer (UK)
    Sep 28, 2015
    80
    Every production here feels leaner and more rubbery than the last, courtesy of the tight, two-person DIY production team of Peaches and Vice Cooler. To some ears, this approach might lack variety, but there are multiple ways to dice “barely there.”
  7. DIY Magazine
    Sep 25, 2015
    80
    Lewd, bulshy, and gaudier than a kitsch ornaments warehouse with a sprung glitter pipe, Rub is a return to form, and hideously brilliant, garish good fun.
  8. Uncut
    Sep 24, 2015
    80
    These songs offer a smart inversion of the usual gender roles in mainstream music, all set to a propulsive, bass-heavy backdrop. [Oct 2015, p.81]
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  9. NOW Magazine
    Sep 24, 2015
    80
    Some might prefer she stick with her usual skewering of gender roles, but that genuine anger lends a new seriousness and realness to even her silliest verses.
  10. The Line of Best Fit
    Oct 2, 2015
    75
    Five albums into her career, Peaches is as dirty as she ever was, and shows no sign of calming down.
  11. Pitchfork
    Sep 29, 2015
    70
    Rub is the first album in her career where the music feels as foregrounded as Peaches' persona, which makes sense, as she co-produced it with Vice Cooler.
  12. Mojo
    Sep 24, 2015
    60
    Her ideas and unabashed sexual allusions, certainly, are a good deal more interesting than her inflexible retro-electro rumble. [Oct 2015, p.92]
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  13. Exclaim
    Sep 24, 2015
    60
    Rub is fun for a few listens, but it's hard to really fall in love with.

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User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Szen
    Oct 2, 2015
    9
    Aggressive, explicit and beautifully weird, "Rub" is an album with many electronic orgasms and vulgar lyrics, that will make you love it fromAggressive, explicit and beautifully weird, "Rub" is an album with many electronic orgasms and vulgar lyrics, that will make you love it from the first minute.… Full Review »
  2. Muddsjr
    Dec 22, 2015
    4
    Whether it's meant to be or not, if anything, Rub is absolutely hilarious. "Put your dick in the air, dick, dick, dick" "balls, dick, twoWhether it's meant to be or not, if anything, Rub is absolutely hilarious. "Put your dick in the air, dick, dick, dick" "balls, dick, two balls and one dick" are the random aspects of the crude, loud mouth sexual nature of this album, and as of this track (Dick in the Air), Peaches is simply unenthusiastic and bland.
    Rub is electronically wild and cool and compelling, but lyrically and vocally impossible to take seriously.    … Full Review »
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