• Record Label: ESL
  • Release Date: Feb 22, 2005
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. So darkly delicious you have to admit it's their masterwork.
  2. Filter
    84
    The rare album that works smoking alone, engaged in a postprandial conversation, or sharing a cigarette and scotch with a friend. [#14, p.101]
  3. 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.
  4. Their most focused and captivating work to date.
  5. Thievery Corporation succeeds on The Cosmic Game by using collaborations to build on an established repertoire of instrumental music.
  6. Q Magazine
    70
    Here the diverse mix of everything from jazz funk to Pink Floyd seems better realised. [Mar 2005, p.101]
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Under The Radar
    70
    Almost too coherent, but it's a fantastic background for unwinding after the afterparty. [#9]
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. j30
    Aug 15, 2011
    9
    My favorite album from a band who puts on one of the best live shows you'll ever see.
  2. tess
    Dec 17, 2005
    10
    wicked album, one of the best from the ' thievery' to this date
  3. EdwardJ
    Mar 22, 2005
    10
    I think it's ill. I feel like they turned the volume down a little and then put the speakers up against the window.