The Return To Form Black Majick Party
by Pop Levi
  • Record Label: Counter
  • Release Date: Feb 20, 2007
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14

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  1. MelissaK
    May 10, 2007
    9
    I just saw Pop Levi's show last night @ the Double Door, Chicago IL. The man has such stage presence, its amazing!! Yea, his dancing might be odd to some...but to me its just another way he expresses himself through his amazing music! Plus what a guitarist!! Jeez! I could go on forever how great the show was!! Plus it was pretty awesome to hang w/him afterwards!
  2. ConorB
    May 1, 2007
    8
    A bubbly album that has the essence of the Scissor Sisters yet more consistent in the same style as opposed to change.
  3. matta
    Apr 12, 2007
    6
    I was pretty underwhelmed by this album. Maybe I bought into the hype a little too much, but I expected more. Sounds like Of Montreal if they were a lot less interesting.
  4. TristramC
    Apr 10, 2007
    6
    I've felt guilty at every stage of my relationship with this record. I felt guilty when I read the first review in Under The Radar. Not sure why. The disc sounded like fun but 'how much more ultra-cool retro homages to years past can we consume' is a question I ask when at the same time Ryan Adam sells way more copies of three different albums in a years time. I passed on I've felt guilty at every stage of my relationship with this record. I felt guilty when I read the first review in Under The Radar. Not sure why. The disc sounded like fun but 'how much more ultra-cool retro homages to years past can we consume' is a question I ask when at the same time Ryan Adam sells way more copies of three different albums in a years time. I passed on the album several times. The cover was so shamelessly obvious as the Marc Bolan mock-up. T-Rex rules and its true Electric Warrior and The Slider have still not gotten old. This however serves to explain why this album was NOT necessary instead of the other way around. So then I 'pop' (get it) the disc in and its fricken great. Of course, its fricken great because if it sucked all I'd have to feel guilty about is that I dropped my fifteen buck but this way I get to be reminded that I'm a predictable unit shifter all year long. As a side, it is actually really impossible to pry "Pick Me Up...Uppercut" from your temporal lobe. So in short, I hate it and like it and dig sometimes when I'm alone and can rock out in the privacy of my own home but I'll drop dead before i ever tell the wor--- oh crap.… Expand
  5. miken
    Mar 31, 2007
    10
    try getting hades lady out of your head. no offense to iraq's shiites, but cordless drills don't do the job. now where's that confouded spare batterie?
  6. MichaelB
    Feb 28, 2007
    7
    Is has all the vibrancy of Marc Bolan, but then so does Marc Bolan. It has the freshness of Beck, but then so does Beck. Etc etc.
  7. Dr.Stringz
    Feb 27, 2007
    10
    A very fun record.
  8. FelipeP
    Feb 27, 2007
    10
    Perfect!
  9. Giterdone
    Feb 22, 2007
    8
    very unexpected and very good. breezy, melodic, gritty, and throwback to the golden era of rock.....recommended

Awards & Rankings

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#58 Best Album of 2007

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Playlouder
    70
    If Simple Kid is too simple for you, if you always liked Supergrass but never thought they pushed their material to its astral conclusion and felt their retro musings were a little too close to the original blueprint, then this baby, is for you.
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  2. Mojo
    80
    No vintage-gear replicator, he's modern-sounding, fresh, fun--a genuine contender for 2007. [Mar 2007, p.105]
  3. Dot Music
    80
    There's barely a dull moment on this album.
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