Crowns Down

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Crowns Down
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Studio album by
Themselves
ReleasedOctober 20, 2009 (2009-10-20) [1]
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length40:28
Label Anticon
Producer Jel, Doseone
Themselves chronology
The Free Houdini
(2009)		Crowns Down
(2009)		 Crowns Down & Company
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
BBC Music favorable [4]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [5]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [6]
Exclaim! favorable [7]
Pitchfork 6.7/10 [8]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Spectrum Culture3.5/5 [10]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT half.svgTMT empty.svg [11]
XLR8R 8/10 [12]

Crowns Down (stylized as CrownsDown) is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Themselves. It was released on Anticon in 2009. [1] A remix version of the album, Crowns Down & Company , was released in 2010. [13]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.7 out of 10 and described it as "a back-to-basics album from a group who probably needs one, having ventured so far afield." [8] Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! said, "Themselves may not have snatched the crown but they've certainly thrown down the gauntlet with CrownsDown, their confident and comfortable return to the royal rap court." [7]

BBC Music named it one of the best albums of 2009. [14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Doseone and Jel, except "Back II Burn" by Doseone, Jel, and Pedestrian

No.TitleLength
1."Back II Burn"4:06
2."Oversleeping"3:15
3."The Mark"4:54
4."Gangster of Disbelief"3:50
5."Daxstrong"3:37
6."You Ain't It"3:48
7."Roman Is As Roman Does"4:00
8."Skinning the Drum"3:34
9."Deadcatclear II"5:30
10."Gold Teeth Will Roll"4:00

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Themselves

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Crownsdown by Themselves". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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  4. ↑ Kennedy, Adam (2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown - Review". BBC Music . Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Themselves". Christgau's Consumer Guide . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Tudor, Alexander (October 22, 2009). "themselves - CrownsDown". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  7. 1 2 Quinlan, Thomas (December 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". Exclaim! . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  8. 1 2 Howe, Brian (October 20, 2009). "Themselves: CrownsDown". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 19, 2014.
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