Elephants on Acid
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28th September 2018 |
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Label (s) | BMG Rights Management | ||||||||||
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21st |
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51:49 |
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Elephants on Acid ( English for elephants on LSD ) is the ninth studio album by the US rap group Cypress Hill . It was released on September 28, 2018 and is the band's first release on the BMG Rights Management label and the first studio album since 2010.
production
Elephants on Acid , like most of the group's previous albums, was produced entirely by band member DJ Muggs .
Cover design
The album cover is in dark blue-green and gray tones and shows the Hindu god Ganesha , who owns an elephant's head and holds spears, a skull and other objects in his hands. At the top right there are the white writing Cypress Hill and Elephants on Acid .
Guest Posts
In addition to Cypress Hill, other artists are represented on eight songs on the album. The singer Brevi is involved in the songs Oh Na Na , Reefer Man , Crazy and Stairway to Heaven . The Egyptian musicians Sadat and Alaa Fifty can be heard on Band of Gypsies , while the rapper Sick Jacken has a guest appearance in Locos . In addition, the pieces Jesus Was a Stoner and Blood on My Hands Again are collaborations with the singer Gonjasufi .
Track list
# | title | Guest Posts | producer | length |
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1 | Tusko (intro) | DJ Muggs | 0:48 | |
2 | Band of Gypsies | Sadat and Alaa Fifty | DJ Muggs | 3:49 |
3 | Put Em in the Ground | DJ Muggs | 2:21 | |
4th | Satao (interval) | DJ Muggs | 0:29 | |
5 | Jesus Was a Stoner | Gonjasufi | DJ Muggs | 3:25 |
6th | Pass the knife | DJ Muggs | 3:37 | |
7th | LSD (interval) | DJ Muggs | 0:37 | |
8th | Oh well | Brevi | DJ Muggs | 2:57 |
9 | Holy Mountain (interval) | DJ Muggs | 1:15 | |
10 | Locos | Sick jackets | DJ Muggs | 3:18 |
11 | Falling down | DJ Muggs | 2:20 | |
12 | Elephant Acid (Interlude) | DJ Muggs | 0:52 | |
13 | Insane first floor | DJ Muggs | 1:23 | |
14th | The 5th Angel (Instrumental) | DJ Muggs | 2:01 | |
15th | Warlord | DJ Muggs | 3:17 | |
16 | Reefer Man | Brevi | DJ Muggs | 3:22 |
17th | Thru the Rabbit Hole (Interlude) | DJ Muggs | 1:54 | |
18th | Crazy | Brevi | DJ Muggs | 2:52 |
19th | Muggs Is Dead | DJ Muggs | 2:11 | |
20th | Blood on My Hands Again | Gonjasufi | DJ Muggs | 3:20 |
21st | Stairway to Heaven | Brevi | DJ Muggs | 5:41 |
Chart successes and singles
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Elephants on Acid entered the German album charts at number 27 on October 5, 2018 and stayed in the top 100 for three weeks.
As the first single already in 2017, the song appeared Reefer Man as part of the soundtrack to the movie Grow House . Shortly before the album was released, the band of Gypsies , Muggs Is Dead , Crazy and Locos were released . All songs could not be placed in the charts.
reception
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Metacritic | 75% |
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Juice | |
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Elephants on Acid received mostly positive reviews from critics. The Metacritic site calculated an average of 75% from eleven reviews from English-language media.
From laut.de the album four out of a possible five points received. The reviewer Dominik Lippe thinks that "B-Real and Sen Dog still complement each other excellently vocally" and that DJ Muggs get "the most far-reaching development opportunities", which has a positive effect on the production. Cypress Hill would create "their own heaven on earth" with the album.
Vincent Lindig from Juice magazine rated Elephants on Acid three out of a possible six crowns. It seems “like a collection of sketches and skits that you could later condense into a crisp album.” The “versatility of DJ Muggs' productions and the routine delivery of the MCs are positively emphasized.” However, “the really catchy, melodic hooks were missing ", Whereby" less sound experiments "would have been desirable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources (albums): DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Chart tracking Elephants on Acid on officialcharts.de
- ↑ Rating: metacritic.com (English)
- ↑ a b Evaluation: laut.de
- ↑ a b Rating: juice.de
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com (English)