Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
Critic Score
Based on 18 reviews
2016 Ratings: #442 / 1004
User Score
Based on 195 ratings
2016 Rank: #371
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Clash

That a record so dark and ripe with nuance can also harbour such blatant pop sensibility belies the duo’s young age while serving as a testament to their rampant eccentricities.

90
The Line of Best Fit
The end result is consistently wonderful. Let’s Eat Grandma have made one of the most intoxicating, inventive and original records of the year.
80
Loud and Quiet
It’s not without the missteps you’d expect from a debut this wild (‘Sleep Song’ is overlong; ‘Chocolate Sludge Cake’ annoying in part) but it seems reductive to denounce ‘I, Gemini’ on account of its lack of focus when we’ve grown so tired of young musicians obsessed with a nostalgia they can’t remember but we can and are sick of.
80
The Guardian
At a time when every major album release is a fastidiously managed event designed to be as bleeding-edge as possible, we should be thankful for Let’s Eat Grandma, two multi-instrumentalist 17-year-olds from Norwich who seem to have zero interest in tailoring their outsider pop to current tastes.
80
No Ripcord

The more you listen to this record, the more it impresses you, even if their name is downright awful.

80
NME
While their pop sensibilities are clear, the music is surreal and dense, with guitar, synthesiser, saxophone, glockenspiel, recorder and vocals that lurch from sugary to shouty.
73
Pitchfork
The teenaged duo Let's Eat Grandma explore the nightmarish whimsy of nursery rhymes and folktales with a distinctly English flavor on their chilling and impressive debut.
70
SPIN

Not everything works, and the second side maybe gets bathed in one too many foggy organ dirges, but I, Gemini is like the chorus subject in weirdo-pop single of the year “Eat Shiitake Mushrooms”: Never invincible, but never predictable.

70
AllMusic

At times, Hollingworth and Walton's freewheeling experimentation gets a little too chaotic, but I, Gemini is an adventurous debut filled with moments of surprising beauty and humor.

65
Under the Radar

Their debut LP may be underpinned by the exuberance of youth, but the U.K. duo's inventive sonic range—including massive gyrating synths, tender glockenspiel chimes, and even a spot of (perhaps ill advised) rhyme spitting—points to unexpectedly ripened ears.

60
Tiny Mix Tapes

I, Gemini is an exorcism of youth, pointing at grandma’s history and consuming it, an echo of pop’s past and an ahistorical shriek of arrival.

40
DIY
Let’s Eat Grandma clearly have the potential to merge fantasy and instant fix pop, but this debut is more a showcase of their peculiarities than anything else.
Slush_Puppy
69

It sounds so widdle.

mikehermida
80

What an absolutely fantastic debut album from two so young. I will be following these guys from this point onwards. They sounded a little like Bjork at times and have an exciting progressive sound.

Interesting.

Essential Track - Rapunzel

yottifferent
NR

The cutest and most adorable album I’ve ever listened to

Suburban_dorm
80

Pretty good music to chill to. Found it through the cyberpunk song (don't judge me please). I liked shitake mushrooms and the ukelele song at the end.

dridri
90

Whimsical, creative and heartfelt.

KneesofBees
81

I don't know what to say about this album other than it's so adorable and fun. The artists behind Let's Eat Grandma were so young when this was released, and yet it's such a unique and entertaining project. Sure, some of the intros last too long and a couple songs overstay their welcome, but the instrumentals are amazing and the vocals are eccentric and unpredictable. I want to cuddle and watch Netflix with "Eat Shiitake Mushrooms"; it's such a cute song, I particularly love the ... read more

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Added on: April 30, 2016