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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Canadian turntablist Kid Koala is a soundtrack to the board game included with the vinyl release and features guest appearances from Coelacanth, Crayfish, Hammerhead, Lealani, and Manta Ray.
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  • Record Label: Envision Records
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Trip-Hop, Electronica, Club/Dance, Indie Electronic, Underground Rap, Turntablism, Mixed Media
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. 80
    Creatures of the Late Afternoon is a significant evolution since his seminal work Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, showcasing an impressive restraint of oversaturating us with dizzying samples and flashy turntablism and instead focusing on letting the music speak for itself.
  2. Apr 17, 2023
    80
    Kid Koala's music remains as inventive and conceptual as ever, but Creatures of the Late Afternoon is the most stylistically varied, adventurous, and straight-up fun release he's made in ages.
  3. Uncut
    Apr 17, 2023
    80
    Warm, fuzzy and delicious. [May 2023, p.31]
  4. Apr 17, 2023
    70
    All things considered, this may not be the best album ever made by Kid Koala, but it might be one of his most rewarding experiences.
  5. Apr 17, 2023
    40
    The DJing skills are still there and the grooves hold together throughout, though there is rarely much of interest on top of them. ... There are also precisely eight bars in The Cards’ mid-section where the drums hit just right, before they’re replaced with yet more poorly-mixed elements. These moments are so few and far between, however, that it’s hard to justify the album’s raison d’être.