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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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FilterThe 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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Their most focused and captivating work to date.
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Thievery Corporation succeeds on The Cosmic Game by using collaborations to build on an established repertoire of instrumental music.
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It works brilliantly.
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Q MagazineHere the diverse mix of everything from jazz funk to Pink Floyd seems better realised. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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The 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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Under The RadarAlmost too coherent, but it's a fantastic background for unwinding after the afterparty. [#9]
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So darkly delicious you have to admit it's their masterwork.
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You 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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 0 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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Aug 15, 2011My favorite album from a band who puts on one of the best live shows you'll ever see.
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tessDec 17, 2005wicked album, one of the best from the ' thievery' to this date
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EdwardJMar 22, 2005I think it's ill. I feel like they turned the volume down a little and then put the speakers up against the window.