Czarface Meets Metal Face | ||||
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Released | March 30, 2018 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 43:37 | |||
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 6.6/10 [1] |
Metacritic | 75/100 [2] |
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The 405 | 6.5/10 [3] |
AllMusic | [4] |
The A.V. Club | B− [5] |
The Guardian | [6] |
HipHopDX | 4.3/5 [7] |
NME | [8] |
Pitchfork | 6.4/10 [9] |
RapReviews | 8.5/10 [10] |
Vice (Expert Witness) | [11] |
Czarface Meets Metal Face is the first collaborative album by American hip hop supergroup Czarface and British-American rapper MF Doom. It was released on March 30,2018 through Get On Down,a Boston-based record label. The album features guest appearances from Vinnie Paz,Open Mike Eagle,Blacastan and Kendra Morris. It was the last release by MF Doom before his death on October 31,2020.
The two previously collaborated on the song "Ka-Bang!" on Czarface's 2015 album Every Hero Needs a Villain ,and 2017's First Weapon Drawn .
Czarface Meets Metal Face received generally favourable reviews upon its release. At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,the album has received an average score of 75,based on 9 reviews,indicating "generally favourable reviews".
All music is composed by The Czar-Keys (George Andrinopoulos, Jeremy Page & Todd Spadafore)
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Take Your Medicine" | 0:52 |
2. | "Meddle with Metal" | 3:26 |
3. | "Badness of Madness" | 2:56 |
4. | "Close Talker" | 0:50 |
5. | "Forever People" | 3:20 |
6. | "Captain Crunch" | 3:57 |
7. | "Don't Spoil It" | 1:39 |
8. | "Phantoms" (featuring Open Mike Eagle) | 4:19 |
9. | "Bomb Thrown" | 4:32 |
10. | "You Masked for It" | 1:22 |
11. | "Astral Traveling" (featuring Vinnie Paz) | 3:50 |
12. | "Nautical Depth" (featuring Blacastan) | 3:31 |
13. | "Stun Gun" | 2:03 |
14. | "MF Czar" | 3:22 |
15. | "Captain Brunch" | 2:29 |
16. | "Sleeping Dogs" | 1:09 |
Total length: | 43:37 |
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [12]
Musicians
Production | Design
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Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Scottish Albums (OCC) [13] | 76 |
US Billboard 200 [14] | 134 |
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [15] | 37 |
US Digital Albums (Billboard) [16] | 18 |
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [17] | 5 |
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [18] | 1 |
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [19] | 5 |
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