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The Return To Form Black Majick Party
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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

  • Summary: A member of Ladytron's touring band as well as the trio Super Numeri, English multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Pop Levi (yes, Pop is indeed his middle name) makes his full-length solo debut with this eclectic disc.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. musicOMH.com
    90
    Pop Levi is an oddball, an eccentric in the finest English tradition and a man who evokes the effortless, timeless cool of many and varied heroes of modern music's life and times.
  2. Prefix Magazine
    85
    Nobody is putting out music like Pop Levi's right now.
  3. NOW Magazine
    80
    Levi pulls off his flamboyant persona because he has the meticulously structured songs to carry it.
  4. Pitchfork
    80
    An admirably cocksure debut on which Levi makes like a 21st century T. Rex-- which, our current retro-obsessed rock culture notwithstanding, is not an easy thing to pull off.
  5. Mojo
    80
    No vintage-gear replicator, he's modern-sounding, fresh, fun--a genuine contender for 2007. [Mar 2007, p.105]
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  6. Playlouder
    70
    If Simple Kid is too simple for you, if you always liked Supergrass but never thought they pushed their material to its astral conclusion and felt their retro musings were a little too close to the original blueprint, then this baby, is for you.
  7. The Guardian
    60
    He should recognise that his overlong songs could use a trim, but there is depth beyond the Willy Wonka weirdness.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. miken
    Mar 31, 2007
    10
    try getting hades lady out of your head. no offense to iraq's shiites, but cordless drills don't do the job. now where's that try getting hades lady out of your head. no offense to iraq's shiites, but cordless drills don't do the job. now where's that confouded spare batterie?… Collapse
  2. FelipeP
    Feb 27, 2007
    10
    Perfect!
  4. Dr.Stringz
    Feb 27, 2007
    10
    A very fun record.
  5. Giterdone
    Feb 22, 2007
    8
    very unexpected and very good. breezy, melodic, gritty, and throwback to the golden era of rock.....recommended
  6. ConorB
    May 1, 2007
    8
    A bubbly album that has the essence of the Scissor Sisters yet more consistent in the same style as opposed to change.
  7. MichaelB
    Feb 28, 2007
    7
    Is has all the vibrancy of Marc Bolan, but then so does Marc Bolan. It has the freshness of Beck, but then so does Beck. Etc etc.
  8. TristramC
    Apr 10, 2007
    6
    I've felt guilty at every stage of my relationship with this record. I felt guilty when I read the first review in Under The Radar. Not I've felt guilty at every stage of my relationship with this record. I felt guilty when I read the first review in Under The Radar. Not sure why. The disc sounded like fun but 'how much more ultra-cool retro homages to years past can we consume' is a question I ask when at the same time Ryan Adam sells way more copies of three different albums in a years time. I passed on the album several times. The cover was so shamelessly obvious as the Marc Bolan mock-up. T-Rex rules and its true Electric Warrior and The Slider have still not gotten old. This however serves to explain why this album was NOT necessary instead of the other way around. So then I 'pop' (get it) the disc in and its fricken great. Of course, its fricken great because if it sucked all I'd have to feel guilty about is that I dropped my fifteen buck but this way I get to be reminded that I'm a predictable unit shifter all year long. As a side, it is actually really impossible to pry "Pick Me Up...Uppercut" from your temporal lobe. So in short, I hate it and like it and dig sometimes when I'm alone and can rock out in the privacy of my own home but I'll drop dead before i ever tell the wor--- oh crap.… Expand

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#58 Best Album of 2007

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