Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Surprises are around every turn.
  2. Alternative Press
    60
    This disc contains some intriguing moments. [Apr 2002, p.74]
  3. Magnet
    70
    It isn't always pleasant, but it's always surprisingly pretty. [#54, p.88]
  4. Mixer
    60
    The tracks are often tuneful, but they're too downtempo for anything but the chill room. [May 2002, p.74]
  5. Mojo
    80
    Challenging and sometimes extraordinarily beautiful. [Mar 2002, p.108]
  6. It's Broder's careful balancing act between the traditional and the abnormal that makes his music so interesting.
  7. Like Beck before he developed the Prince fixation, Fog's anti-puritanism makes this a constantly startling, wholly addictive joy.
  8. Broder gently provokes your senses with curious combinations of divergent instruments, creating a collection of progressive musical oddities that is entertaining as well as musically fascinating.
  9. The restless Broder can’t see the problem with shredding flavours as disparate as folk, rock, post-rock, the avant-garde, hip hop, electronica into a powerful, sometimes jarring, sometimes bewitching pulp, and neither should any music fan. Listen and free your mind from convention.
  10. The Wire
    80
    This isn't really the future of HipHop, but as a fleeting reverie on its conflicted present, it makes for a fantastic detour. [#217, p.55]
  11. Uncut
    80
    At its most ascetic, Fog sees Broder kicking down the same fence post of convention as Tortoise, the Beta Band and latter-day Radiohead. [Mar 2002, p.111]

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