Miss Anthropocene
by Grimes
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Feb 21, 2020
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
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  1. PopMatters
    Feb 24, 2020
    60
    When Grimes's impeccable production skills are given a chance to shine, the ideas behind Miss Anthropocene's slow-burners begin to come into focus.
  2. The Skinny
    Feb 21, 2020
    60
    Miss Anthropocene is an uneven record, and one that arrives with considerable baggage that threatens to turn it into a punching bag. But Grimes' proven abilities as a producer win out. There are superfluous, overlong passages, especially when the brightness in her music drains away.
  3. Rolling Stone
    Feb 19, 2020
    60
    Miss Anthropocene is no doubt a work of ambition, and Boucher’s aims at bringing further awareness to the climate crisis are noble. ... Yet what the album actually has to say about climate change is often lost under the admittedly beautiful, meticulously composed wreckage. By the album’s end, Boucher has abandoned the muddled villainous pretext in favor of her own utopian fantasies.
  5. Paste Magazine
    Feb 21, 2020
    56
    Where these two songs [“Darkseid” and “4ÆM”] burst with fervor, Miss_Anthropocene’s other tracks often stumble and limp.
  6. Under The Radar
    Apr 16, 2020
    50
    For an artist whose past two albums were as impeccably curated as they were produced, the non-cohesiveness of Miss Anthropocene is bit of a disappointment, in spite of the record’s highlights.
  7. The Quietus
    Feb 21, 2020
    50
    Miss Anthropocene is a Kanye West of a listening experience. Strengthened by listening less hard and chilling out. Weakened by due diligence and the artist’s cerebral disconnect between what she's great at making and who she believes she is.

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User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 377 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 342 out of 377
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 377
  3. Negative: 15 out of 377
  1. behzatgoren
    Feb 21, 2020
    10
    Grimes would f*ck me if she saw me listening the album.I was like horny or something like that
  2. brainz48
    Feb 22, 2020
    0
    Almost unlistenably bad, the epitome of fake deep and essentially just an uninspired rehash that sounds like an unintentional parody of herAlmost unlistenably bad, the epitome of fake deep and essentially just an uninspired rehash that sounds like an unintentional parody of her earlier work. What a let down after four classics.… Full Review »
  3. archismanm
    Feb 21, 2020
    9
    IDORU is the perfect way to end the album, so I'd say skip the deluxe version when you are listening to the album as a whole. While I did likeIDORU is the perfect way to end the album, so I'd say skip the deluxe version when you are listening to the album as a whole. While I did like 'We Appreciate Power' as a single it just doesn't fit into the album as a whole, so I'm glad they left it out. As an album this is everything I expected it to be. Didn't disappoint at all.
    Highlights: Love how 'Delete Forever' sits in the album. Flipped when I heard the 'Deewani Mastani' sample in 4AM; that song's a belter. So is 'My Name is Dark' - the NIN influence is unmistakable. The pre-chorus from IDORU is one of my favourite moments from the album. The way she sings 'this is what I aaaam' and '...understaaaand' is just love. That's the thing about this album: she blends the familiar and unfamiliar, simple and experimental, mellow and harsh, rage and helplessness, pain and euphoria so seamlessly and beautifully in this album.
    Hence I don't think We Appreciate Power belongs here. Disrupts the flow of the album.
    There are however a couple of tracks I end up skipping once in a while. But they're still pretty good in the whole scheme of the album so I won't really have a go at them.

    8.5/10 (rounded to 9 for Metacritic)    … Full Review »
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