Monkeytown

Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2011 Ratings: #679 / 1068
User Score
Based on 72 ratings
2011 Ratings: #322
October 4, 2011 / Release Date
LP / Format
Electronic / Genre
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Critic Reviews

74
Pitchfork

The album may be scattershot, but perhaps that doesn't matter so much when it's delivered out the barrel of a 12-gauge.

60
PopMatters

Modeselektor know how to light up the dance floor, and despite Monkeytown’s misfires, it doesn’t seem that talent will be going away any time soon.

85

Ignore the other review from noonoo97 as he clearly doesn`t know what he is talking about (maybe too young to understand?)

So Monkeytown is their best album and in fact it comes fully during the golden age of electro, it`s worth mentioning also that it`s after this album that Thom York himself declared that Modeselektor where now his favourite band. The style is purely german experimental, similar to the sound of siriusmo or digitalism, but i dare to say that their creativity here goes even ... read more

VeraBlyat
80

Una combinación rara de muchos géneros de la electrónica pero que extrañamente conectan bastante bien.

noonoo97
75

As an album its all over the place Modeselektor need to create albums that flows not this chaotic and unorganised mess saying that there are some amazing songs and beats on here. (Thom Yorke - Shipwreck is 100/100)

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Track List

1Blue Clouds
6:00
73
2Pretentious Friends
3:32
feat. BUSDRIVER
52
3Shipwreck
6:09
65
4Evil Twin
3:59
62
5German Clap
6:29
64
6Berlin
4:43
71
7Grillwalker
4:02
63
8Green Light Go
4:45
with PVT
72
9Humanized
4:26
60
10This
6:17
68
11War Cry
4:51
69
Total Length: 55 minutes
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