Metascore
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. It’s a one-trick pony album sure, but what a trick.
  2. Blender
    60
    The album's final third is useless... Fortunately, the rest is bracing permutations of the lopsided, much-sampled post-disco rhythms that helped define NYC art-funk 25 years ago. [Oct 2006, p.135]
  3. Offers taught electro evidence that conviction and innovation can be found in the most minimal environment.
  4. Mojo
    80
    Better still [than 'Stepp Off']. [Sep 2006, p.98]
  5. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    [It] can't top the early stuff. [5 Aug 2006, p.29]
  6. This album's every percussive aspect has been honed to impart the maximum amount of pleasure.
  7. Q Magazine
    60
    You'll waste time expecting actual songs to arrive, but the obligation to trance out is irresistible. [Sep 2006, p.107]
  8. Despite their influence on younger bands (you can hear LCD Soundsystem's knobbly grooves on Insane), ESG still sound like nothing else.
  9. Uncut
    80
    An astonishingly primal album. [Aug 2006, p.93]
  10. Vibe
    40
    Something's off... ESG's doe-eyed charm... is missing. [Oct 2006, p.148]

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