Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 82/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| BBC Music | favourable |
| Drowned In Sound | 7/10 |
| Entertainment.ie | |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| The Observer | |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.9/10.0 |
| PopMatters | 9/10 |
| Q | |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Sputnikmusic | 4.0/5 |
| Stylus Magazine | B+ |
The album received very positive reviews from most music critics.
- Spin (p. 64) – Ranked #4 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of 2005" – " vivid, spastic concept album about the last primates to survive the apocalypse"
- Spin (p. 105) – "Albarn still has great taste in other people's music. His new accomplice, copyright pirate Danger Mouse, fills in suggestively dubby spaces with choirs, staggering synths, and MCs ranging from De La Soul to Roots Manuva to MF Doom." – Grade: B
- Entertainment Weekly (No. 821/822, p. 136) – " follow-up is spookier, blippier, and more on edge." – Grade: B
- Uncut (p. 106) – 4 stars out of 5 – "Dazzlingly clever – great beats, brilliant production, top tunes and some of Albarn's best singing."
- CMJ (No. 914, p. 4) – "...an immensely absorbable experience with plenty of rhymes and funked-out marching beats to bite into."
- Vibe (p. 143) – "s original – and just as much fun – as the first."
- Mojo (p. 18) – Ranked #18 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" – " genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone."
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