The Cosmic Game
- Thievery Corporation
- Band Name: Thievery Corporation
- Record Label: ESL
- Release Date: Feb 22, 2005
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85The album is a whole effort, not just one or two overachieving songs that make the entire thing seem better than it really is. Along with Brazilian Girls, one of this year's hotter electronic releases.
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84The rare album that works smoking alone, engaged in a postprandial conversation, or sharing a cigarette and scotch with a friend. [#14, p.101]
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83It works brilliantly.
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So darkly delicious you have to admit it's their masterwork.
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76Their most focused and captivating work to date.
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Almost too coherent, but it's a fantastic background for unwinding after the afterparty. [#9]
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70Here the diverse mix of everything from jazz funk to Pink Floyd seems better realised. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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The Cosmic Game displays much of what we've come to expect from Thievery: lush, down-tempo beats laced with authentic Jamaican and Latin flair.
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70Thievery Corporation succeeds on The Cosmic Game by using collaborations to build on an established repertoire of instrumental music.
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70You won't necessarily encounter anything substantially removed from their prior work, but you will witness the duo allowing new voices to assume a greater role in rocketing each song to some bright red futon in a distant region of the cosmos.
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60It's a few tracks too long, but it's easy to get lost in its smoked-out haze. [Apr 2005, p.89]
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60More than another coaster on the coffee-table circuit. [Mar 2005, p.108]
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60Builds upon the familiar grab bag with the addition of a trippier, more psychedelic vibe and high-profile, pop-minded guest vocalists. [Mar 2005, p.114]
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Like much of Thievery Corporation's work, it's enveloping if not terribly galvanizing. [#16, p.138]
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Hampered by lazy beats and an overabundance of world-music window dressing. [25 Feb 2005, p.102]
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9My favorite album from a band who puts on one of the best live shows you'll ever see.
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tess10wicked album, one of the best from the ' thievery' to this date
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EdwardJ10I think it's ill. I feel like they turned the volume down a little and then put the speakers up against the window.