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Return to Cookie Mountain

by Tv On The Radio

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All Time

of 455,330

252
2000's

of 265,621

10
2006

of 33,755

1
Genres
- Alternative Rock
  - Alternative Rock
    
    of 49,115
    
    68
  - Alternative Styles
    
    of 8,671
    
    24
  - Indie & Lo-Fi
    
    of 13,594
    
    15
  - Rock
    
    of 7,788
    
    22
  - Indie Rock
    
    of 12,318
    
    13
  - Experimental Rock
    
    of 3,229
    
    12
- Dance & DJ
  - Dance & DJ
    
    of 40,769
    
    18
- Miscellaneous
  - Miscellaneous
    
    of 67,794
    
    99
  - Experimental Music
    
    of 4,200
    
    9
- Pop
  - Pop
    
    of 263,730
    
    239
  - Pop Rock
    
    of 64,982
    
    144
- Rock
  - Rock
    
    of 107,652
    
    146

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.5597 Return to Cookie Mountain is ranked overall as 3.5597 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.4213 Return to Cookie Mountain has an avg. critic score of 3.4213 out of 4 stars

Return to Cookie Mountain Rank 4 Reviews

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Stylus Magazine

Letâs just be out with it, because weâre all friends here. Youâve heard some version ofReturn to Cookie Mountainalready, and you already know how great it is. You leapt on it immediately, even knowing it was bootleg and mislabeled. ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes.com

Sometimes it’s really hard to write about a record you absolutely adore. There’s a certain sadistic glee associated with ripping a personally maligned piece of work into much-deserved shreds, and in these cases, all the bile, ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes

Return To Cookie Mountain is one for the ages. ...more

The Onion (A.V. Club)

TV On The Radio previously seemed content to roam the open horizon; here, it's intent on exploring the far side. The journey is, once again, enthralling. ...more

Harmonium

...An album that has soul and rhythm as well as musical beauty. ...more

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This is not an album. It's a manifesto or a mood; a statement or a lifestyle. It all depends on which side of the art fence you fall on: Are you consumer or contributor? Cynic or romantic? Taken in from afar (the cynic's view), Return to ...more

ShakingThrough.net

Return to Cookie Mountain validates the promise of TV on the Radio, an outfit that heretofore had displayed more potential than actual returns. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

The savvier arrangements, brimming with unsettling sound effects, put Cookie Mountain several steps ahead of its fine 2004 predecessor, Desperate Youth, Bloody Thirsty Babes. ...more

Pitchfork

Maybe that's why this album has such an incredible pull: It doesn't make an atmosphere so much as a space to spend time in, and Adebimpe doesn't become a narrator so much as a witness. ...more

Rolling Stone

On their 2004 debut,Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, TV on the Radio tended to put the art before the rock, which made the idea-packed disc more interesting than it was appealing. For their major-label follow-up, the Brooklyn art rockers have ...more

Slant Magazine

Their name says it all, really. Unsatisfied with simply putting two-dimensional music on the airwaves, TV On The Radio strives to produce music with the intent of giving just as much depth and subtext as their own personal artwork. Though the move to ...more

PrefixMag

When TV on the Radio releasedDesperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babesin 2004, I was one of the first in line to herald it as a modern-day classic. I talked about it endlessly, attempted to convince skeptical friends, wrote a fawning review for my school ...more

Drowned In Sound

Return To Cookie Mountain is a party soundtrack for a fucked-up generation and an opus that inhabits the midpoint between the scarcely conjoining circles of eclecticism and enjoyability whilst maintaining consistency throughout. ...more

Neumu.net

Whichever way you look at it, as avant-pop or cubist soul, Return to Cookie Mountain remains an intoxicating, intriguing but accessible album. ...more

The New York Times

It’s more experimental yet catchier, more introspective yet more assertive, by turns gloomier and funnier, and above all richer in both sound and implication. “Return to Cookie Mountain” is simply one of this year’s best albums. ...more

NOW Magazine

A densely tangled masterpiece that floods and floors by straddling swaggering grooves and boggling cacophony. ...more

Amazon.com

Almost wholly brilliant. ...more

The Phoenix

Experimental without sacrificing anything in terms of hooks or melody, passionate yet never overbearing, and clever without giving in to the urge to indulge, it places TV on the Radio on a plane with no peers. ...more

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