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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: The sophomore effort for the Los Angeles-based electronica/lounge duo (down from four members on their first outing) contains 11 new disco/lounge/world/electronica tracks, highlighted by lead single "Divine."
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Mixer
    80
    As good at home as in the clubs, the Beings don't compromise integrity for catchiness, managing to offer healthy helpings of both. [Sep 2002, p.76]
  2. As improbable as it sounds, imagine if Goldfrapp teamed up with Jamiroquai and you have a sense of what DOS sounds like -- seductive, ebullient, unabashedly retro, infectiously uptempo and wrapped up in the kind of maneater theatrics most pop music has shied away from since Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" heyday.
  3. Divine Operating System has something for everyone (unless, of course, you have a rabid hatred of disco... then you might not dig it too much).
  4. Urb
    60
    Predominately shimmering and languid, at its raciest Divine Operating System achieves a poppy, disco canter that trades ass-slapping soul for sleek sensuality. [Sep 2002, p.104]
  5. Blender
    40
    You've heard it all before--at least twice. [#10, p.128]
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. JackT
    Mar 13, 2005
    10
    Amazing! So good.
  2. notafanofyou
    Sep 13, 2004
    0
    boring, what happened to the songwriting?