Bad Vibes (Shlohmo album)

Bad Vibes
Studio album by Shlohmo
Released August 9, 2011
Genre Electronic, instrumental hip hop
Length 57:45
Label Friends of Friends
Producer Shlohmo
Shlohmo chronology

Bad Vibes
(2011)		 Dark Red
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 82/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Beats Per Minute 83%[2]
CMJ favorable[3]
Consequence of Sound [4]
Exclaim! favorable[5]
Fact [6]
Filter 84%[7]
Pitchfork Media 7.8/10[8]
Resident Advisor [9]
XLR8R 7.5/10[10]

Bad Vibes is the first studio album by an American electronic musician Shlohmo. It was released on Friends of Friends in 2011.[11]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Bad Vibes received an average score of 82% based on 7 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[1]

David Dacks of Exclaim! felt that Shlohmo is "a master sound artist with funky, song-oriented underpinnings making it all sound relevant."[5] Ari Lipsitz of CMJ noted that the album is "more melodic and less frenzied" in comparison with Flying Lotus' work.[3]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Big Feelings"   3:30
2. "Places"   5:02
3. "Anywhere but Here"   3:37
4. "It Was Whatever"   4:04
5. "Parties"   5:24
6. "Just Us"   4:06
7. "Sink"   5:08
8. "I Can't See You I'm Dead"   4:40
9. "Trapped in a Burning House"   3:58
10. "Get Out"   4:36
11. "Your Stupid Face"   4:45
12. "Seriously"   3:10
13. "Same Time"   5:45

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bad Vibes - Shlohmo". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ Ryan, Will (August 15, 2011). "Album Review: Shlohmo - Bad Vibes". Beats Per Minute.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lipsitz, Ari (August 12, 2011). "Review: Shlohmo - Bad Vibes (Friends Of Friends)". CMJ.
  4. ↑ Choudhery, Mohammad (September 2, 2011). "Album Review: Shlohmo – Bad Vibes". Consequence of Sound.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dacks, David (August 22, 2011). "Shlohmo - Bad Vibes - Dance & Electronic Reviews". Exclaim!.
  6. ↑ Toland, Justin (August 4, 2011). "Shlohmo: Bad Vibes". Fact.
  7. ↑ Rondeau, Bernardo (August 17, 2011). "FILTER Magazine - Reviews - Shlohmo". Filter.
  8. ↑ Patrin, Nate (August 11, 2011). "Shlohmo: Bad Vibes - Album Reviews". Pitchfork Media.
  9. ↑ Ryce, Andrew (September 2, 2011). "RA Reviews: Shlohmo - Bad Vibes (Album)". Resident Advisor.
  10. ↑ Fallon, Patric (August 9, 2011). "Bad Vibes". XLR8R.
  11. ↑ Weiss, Jeff (April 3, 2013). "Shlohmo Is Blowing Up Before Our Eyes". LA Weekly.

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