Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
1969 Ratings: #2 / 144
User Score
1969 Rank: #210
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Pitchfork

Trout Mask Replica is the work of a collective—a serendipitous line of charged neurons that wired together to make something truly magical.

100
AllMusic

Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon.

100
Rolling Stone

Trout Mask is a staggering double album about three steps beyond beyond some combination of delta blues and free jazz.

100
Q Magazine

The acme of true psychedelia and the most liberated music ever recorded ... few musicians have ever worked so hard at bucking the perimeter of the fence of the rock song.

BradTasteMusic
71

I survived 62 seconds

Edit: over a year later I see I offended people. Funny enough I ended up hearing 20 minutes of material from this thing and I think it is one of the worst albums I have ever heard

Fhhgvnjscvbbg
100

For my 100th review, I decided to challenge myself by reviewing “Trout Mask Replica,” one of the most polarizing albums ever made. I’ve had an empty document with just “100th review” for hours. I wasn’t even sure where to start. How do you review an album that actively defies every music convention that we know? How do you review an album that confuses a person even after multiple listens? Well, I tried my best, and writing this review has furthered my ... read more

MickyT
80

Poggers based fishe

Captain Beefhearts 'Trout Mask Replica' is an absolute fucking mess of an album, it's easily one of the most disjointed, malformed, awful sounding and nonsensical albums I've ever heard, but I fucking love it. No, I will not explain why I like it because to put it bluntly, I don't even think I can, mostly because this thing is just so confusing and ridiculous that I can't really put it to words, all I can really put it in is laughter, as 'Trout Mask Replica' is the funniest ... read more

Neotea
NR

You could basically take my Pulse Demon review, shuffle it around a little, and post it here and it'd be the same. Transcends a score so I ain't giving it one.

iamduckm
100

hello

this album changed my life. honestly. It introduced me to Vox, the concept of Albums, the concept of music theory and it gave me another perspective to look at music as a whole. Doesn't need to sound good, but be good at what it's trying to portray. Id love to give this album a try, but my earbuds are just not ready for this mess. Thank you but fuck you, Trout Mask

JacobHingst
78

Alright gamers, I took my meds. I do like this style of music, but like my medication I can only take so much before i overdose.

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Added on: May 13, 2013