200 Tons Of Bad Luck

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10.0 User Score:

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Album Info

Label: Invada

Release Date: 14 April 2009

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock

Summary

The second album for the supergroup of musicians from such bands as Mogwai, Pantheist, Gonga, and Electric Wizard.

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What The Critics Said

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New Musical Express

The guitar-led epic soundscapes, choral chanting, woeful strings and portent keys on their debut ‘A Love Of Shared Disasters’ are still present.

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Urb

The contrasts, themes, and sheer eclectics of the album make for something that any one person can listen to, and relate to.

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Uncut

Over the course of 80 compelling minutes they roam laggardly through rural post-rock, prog, folk, ambient and doom metal pastures without ever trying your patience. [May 2009, p.80]

Alternative Press

Floyd kick the shit out of 99 percent of the current post-rock crop, so you can't fault CBP for clinging to Picasso's claim that "Good artists copy; great artists steal." [Jun 2009, p.104]

PopMatters

The 77-minute epic is absolutely far too long for some. But it is certainly worth sticking around for, even if the third track--a three-part, 18-minute 'Time of Ye Life/Born For Nothing/Paranoid Arm of Narcoleptic Empire'--appears daunting.

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Mojo

This 77-minute abbreviation includes the 18-minute triptych 'Time Of Ye Life/Born For Nothing/Paranoid Arm Of Narcoleptic Empire, typifying CBP's simmering conflagration of Mogwai, Godspeed! and The God Machine. [May 2009, p.109]

Prefix Magazine

Despite these head-scratching derailments, 200 Tons of Bad Luck brings the gloom in Biblical doses.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

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Smazz K. gave it a10:
Perfect post-rock. The new Floyd....well closest yet.

Carl S gave it a10:
The individual disc is only half as good as the double album (The Resurrectionists & Night Raider), but still chronicles most of the better songs, and works pretty well as a stand-alone. Seek out or download the full double album to get the complete experience though, it won't leave you disappointed.

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