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Zootime Image
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: The UK band's American debut takes seven of the tracks from first album 'Making Dens' and adds five new songs.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Honestly, none of it makes a lick of sense, but unlike, say, the Beta Band -- whose entire shtick was that the parts of their music never fit into a coherent whole -- there's a shapeliness to Zootime that suggests the record was constructed from some inscrutable blueprint that's just naggingly out of reach.
  2. Spin
    70
    There's enough promise here to rattle more cages soon. [Jun 2007, p.94]
  3. Under The Radar
    70
    There is promise in these [new] tracks; however, they fail to truly add anything to the band's already impressive debut. [#17, p.86]
  4. It is an energetic, powerful, and enjoyable album where occasionally pretty invention is marred by the suspicion that a hit-making producer is on deck.
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