Juice B Crypts
by Battles
  • Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Oct 18, 2019
User Score
6.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. JaneMetascore
    Dec 18, 2019
    5
    The fabric of this album is absurdly mediocre. This band in its own little world is terrible. These guests are just bizarre performers who just get paid to act out being weirdos. This band is terrible at shows. Their audience needs something else and should avoid this at all costs.
  2. Spoonyon
    Feb 9, 2020
    6
    The drop in quality from their magnum opus in my opinion, Gloss Drop, is very noticeable and sad. This album isn't without great moments but too often are the songs over stuffed with musical passages and phrases that just overwhelm the listener. Nothing downright terrible though.

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Paste Magazine
    Oct 24, 2019
    88
    To be sure, Juice B Crypts contains many moments of unabashed oddness as well, but in allowing for a sharper contrast between the odd and the beautiful this time, Battles ultimately get further with both.
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  2. The Wire
    Oct 23, 2019
    80
    This is a record that doesn’t sound like it emerges from hermetic isolation, rather it feels as extrovert and joyous and intriguing and intrigued as the city that inspires it. New York City made sound flesh.
  3. The 405
    Oct 22, 2019
    60
    Juice B Crypts is certainly a decent-enough math rock album, but when you have people as experienced and talented as Williams and Stanier “decent-enough” doesn’t cut it.
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