Zipper Down
by Eagles of Death Metal
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 21
  3. Negative: 2 out of 21
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  1. urukusaki
    Oct 2, 2015
    10
    This album is pure fun! If you liked early QOTSA songs like "Monsters In The Parasol" or "Go with the Flow" then give this a chance. I think songs like "Silverlake", "Skin Tight Boogie" or "The Reverend" are their strongest until now.
  2. F4rtster
    Oct 2, 2015
    10
    It might be inconsistent in tone. But what sorts of songs it offers is of the highest quality. Songs like "Silverlake" and "Got a woman" is the typical sort of awesomeness that you'd expect from EODM but then they go and make the greatest love song of all time with "I love you all the time" and even throw in "Complexity" which is basically just a giant "Shut the **** up" to everyIt might be inconsistent in tone. But what sorts of songs it offers is of the highest quality. Songs like "Silverlake" and "Got a woman" is the typical sort of awesomeness that you'd expect from EODM but then they go and make the greatest love song of all time with "I love you all the time" and even throw in "Complexity" which is basically just a giant "Shut the **** up" to every pretentious hipster out there. Definitely worth a listen!… Expand
  3. agibbons_96
    Oct 20, 2015
    8
    After a seven-year absence, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme finally reunites with his old partner-in-crime Jesse Hughes for a fourth Eagles of Death Metal record - the cheekily-titled “Zipper Down”.

    Unlike the last project Homme worked on, the melancholic “...Like Clockwork” with QOTSA, this album is in the same vein of each of its three predecessors - it's all about having    After a seven-year absence, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme finally reunites with his old partner-in-crime Jesse Hughes for a fourth Eagles of Death Metal record - the cheekily-titled “Zipper Down”.

    Unlike the last project Homme worked on, the melancholic “...Like Clockwork” with QOTSA, this album is in the same vein of each of its three predecessors - it's all about having fun (thirty-four minutes of it this time around)! From the moment the opener “Complexity” starts, you know you're in for a good time. “The Deuce” feels very laid back, while “Silverlake (K.S.O.F.M.)” is three and a half minutes of pure cockiness. The pulsating driving force that is “The Reverend” ends the record in the same feel-good fashion that we've come to expect from an EODM record. Their cover of the Duran Duran classic “Save a Prayer”, has an eerie QOTSA vibe to it, almost like it was a rejected cut from the “Era Vulgaris” sessions, and sees Hughes arguably, put in his most subdued and emotional vocal performance to date, backed up by Homme's trademark falsetto wails. While generally uneven in production and tone, Hughes and Homme seem to don't give a damn about all that (if they ever), and they just write and record purely for the hell of it.

    EODM have always had fun when writing, recording and performing their records throughout their career, and this here is no exception - they've picked a formula, have stuck by it and continue to use it no questions asked. A project created to let the duo's hair down has remained exactly that after all these years, and they sound all the better for it!

    Album Highlights - “Complexity”, “Silverlake (K.S.O.F.M.)”, “Save a Prayer” and “The Reverend”.    … Expand

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73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PopMatters
    Oct 30, 2015
    70
    The record closes in synergy to how it opened: fast and fun.
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  2. Punknews.org (Staff)
    Oct 9, 2015
    60
    Zipper Down on its own is a single short burst of energy stretched too thin.
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  3. Q Magazine
    Oct 6, 2015
    60
    Everything here sounds like a happy accident and that's part of the appeal. [Nov 2015, p.108]
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