by
CocoRosie
- Record Label: Touch & Go
- Release Date: Apr 10, 2007
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The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn's densely packed sounds and ideas are a lot to process, but they're what makes this album rewarding on repeated listens.
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What seemed fresh and charming on 2005's Noah's Ark sounds like an interminable racket this time round.
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The production is cleaner this time around, a mixed blessing that steals some of the band's messy, homemade charm in favor of a richer, atmospheric effect.
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There is a childishness about CocoRosie's sound, but rather than a tame tweeness, it's the dark perversity of a genuinely infantile imagination.
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This is CocoRosie's best long-player yet, and a sure contender for album of the year.
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MagnetIt's not everyone's glass of absinthe, but Adventures will find a happy reception among listeners who want an occasional hallucination to go with their usual woozy drunkenness. [#75, p.94]
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MojoSeduces with a mixture of whimsical beauty and compelling mystery. [Jun 2007, p.101]
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This album provides a gateway to a spine-tingling and thought-provoking experience which more than compensates for the intermittent poor man's Bjork moments.
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What really makes Ghosthorse and Stillborn worthy of a jump for joy is CocoRosie’s transformation from self-conscious oddity into an actual songwriting force.
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Paste MagazineThe album suffers from a lack of focus. [May 2007, p.67]
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Ghosthorse and Stillborn tends toward lazy, meandering nothings.
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There is little to recommend here.
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This new record has a genuinely hopeful and perhaps truthful center which drips with promise but elsewhere lacks excitement, eroticism, soul, humor, and breadth.
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Q MagazineOccasionally they stumble upon something magical... but they only highlight the paucity of ideas elsewhere. [May 2007, p.123]
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It's often cute, rarely precious. But it also has some sort of "concept." And hard as it may try, it isn't Bjork. It isn't even Deerhoof.
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Adventures is a record that is just as quirky as it is brilliant.
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The clear, crisp production and epic atmospheres are a huge departure from the sisters’ previous two albums... But otherwise things are ridiculously the same.
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The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn is their third album, though, and if anything, it's a regression: CocoRosie seem to be intent on emphasising all that irritated in the first place.
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The more lukewarm segments of Ghosthorse weigh its worth down like saddlebags filled with iron, particularly the trip-hop confessional sections. But even these lesser moments contribute to a greater good when all is said and done, adding up to a slightly cinematic experience best witnessed with full attention fixed on the little details.
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UncutThis is a larger-sounding, less homespun set than thte sisters' previous two albums. [May 2007, p.102]
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Under The RadarThere’s still plenty to stir your senses, even if it more often than not has a generic hip-hop beat running beneath it. [#17, p.83]
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UrbCocoRosie has this fantastic ability to infuse humanity into their drum machines, and the warming result carries The Adventures to marvelous heights. [Apr 2007, p.102]
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Once they could juggle being both captivating and grating. Today, they're just the latter.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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Negative: 3 out of 17
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DamonMApr 12, 2007
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ROliveiraApr 11, 2007Awsome! Can stop listening to this new album. Looking forward to see them next 14th in Lisbon!
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KevinCApr 11, 2007