Crowns Down

Crowns Down
Studio album by Themselves
Released October 20, 2009
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length 40:28
Label Anticon
Producer Jel, Doseone
Themselves chronology

The Free Houdini
(2009)		 Crowns Down
(2009)		 Crowns Down & Company (2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (72/100)[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
BBC Music (favorable)[3]
Drowned in Sound (8/10)[4]
Exclaim! (favorable)[5]
Pitchfork Media (6.7/10)[6]
Robert Christgau [7]
The Skinny [8]
Spectrum Culture (3.5/5)[9]
Tiny Mix Tapes [10]
XLR8R (8/10)[11]

Crowns Down (stylized as CrownsDown) is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Themselves. It was released on Anticon in 2009.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! said, "Themselves may not have snatched the crown but they've certainly thrown down the gauntlet with CrownsDown, their confident and comfortable return to the royal rap court."[5]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Back II Burn" (co-written with Pedestrian) 4:06
2. "Oversleeping"   3:15
3. "The Mark" (featuring D-Styles) 4:54
4. "Gangster of Disbelief"   3:50
5. "Daxstrong" (featuring Jordan Dalrymple and Markus Acher) 3:37
6. "You Ain't It" (featuring Dax Pierson) 3:48
7. "Roman Is As Roman Does"   4:00
8. "Skinning the Drum"   3:34
9. "Deadcatclear II"   5:30
10. "Gold Teeth Will Roll"   4:00

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Crownsdown - Themselves". Metacritic. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Anderson, Rick. "Themselves - Crownsdown". Allmusic. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ Kennedy, Adam (2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown - Review". BBC.
  4. ↑ Tudor, Alexander (October 22, 2009). "themselves - CrownsDown". Drowned in Sound.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Quinlan, Thomas (December 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". Exclaim!.
  6. ↑ Howe, Brian (October 20, 2009). "Themselves: CrownsDown". Pitchfork Media.
  7. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Consumer Guide Album". Robert Christgau. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ Maloney, Ali (October 29, 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". The Skinny.
  9. ↑ Hanover, Nick (November 19, 2009). "Themselves: Crownsdown". Spectrum Culture.
  10. ↑ Rovinelli, Jeffrey Dunn (October 29, 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  11. ↑ Fallon, Patric (October 20, 2009). "CrownsDown". XLR8R.

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