Own Your Ghost

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Own Your Ghost
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Studio album by
13 & God
ReleasedMay 12, 2011 (2011-05-12)
Studio
  • Alien Research Center
  • Shipwreck
Genre
Length38:31
Label
13 & God chronology
13 & God
(2005)		Own Your Ghost
(2011)
Singles from Own Your Ghost
  1. "Oldage"
    Released: 2011

Own Your Ghost is the second studio album by 13 & God, a collaboration between American hip hop group Themselves and German rock band The Notwist. [1] It was released on Anticon and Alien Transistor in 2011. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
CMJ favorable [4]
Cokemachineglow 83/100 [5]
Exclaim! favorable [6]
Filter 81% [7]
Impose unfavorable [8]
Pitchfork 6.0/10 [9]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Spin 7/10 [12]
URB Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [13]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [3]

Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.0 out of 10, saying: "It's still a neat project with many moments of interest, but it's disappointing that the second album doesn't cohere overall any better than the first." [9] Eric Hill of Exclaim! commented that "Own Your Ghost wins with a rare combination of velocity and depth to track and tackle these troubled times." [6] Mary Kosearas of Filter gave the album a rating of 81%, stating: "Ten tracks mixed with complex beats and sharp vocals gradually mature into a harmony of both fresh and electronically manipulated sounds." [7]

Cokemachineglow named it the 42nd best album of 2011. [14]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Adam Drucker and Markus Acher; all music is composed by 13 & God

No.TitleLength
1."Its Own Sun"2:44
2."Death Major"4:26
3."Armored Scarves"4:30
4."Janu Are"3:32
5."Oldage"3:24
6."Et Tu"3:18
7."Death Minor"3:56
8."Sure as Debt"3:49
9."Beat on Us"5:07
10."Unyoung"3:39
Total length:38:31

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

13 & God

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

Charts

ChartPeak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [15] 96

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References

  1. ↑ Mehan, Brendan (March 29, 2011). "Video Premiere/Q&A: 13 And God". CMJ . Archived from the original on October 30, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Own Your Ghost - 13 & God - Releases". AllMusic . Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Own Your Ghost by 13 & God". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Mehan, Brendan (May 17, 2011). "13 And God - Own Your Ghost". CMJ . Archived from the original on November 21, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Betz, Chet (May 5, 2011). "13&God - Own Your Ghost". Cokemachineglow . Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Hill, Eric (May 17, 2011). "13 & God - Own Your Ghost". Exclaim! . Retrieved March 23, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Kosearas, Mary (May 20, 2011). "13 & God: Own Your Ghost - Anticon". Filter . Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ Happel, Anthony Mark (April 27, 2011). "13 & God, Own Your Ghost". Impose . Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  9. 1 2 Howe, Brian (May 17, 2011). "13 & God: Own Your Ghost". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  10. ↑ Fairall, Jer (June 12, 2011). "13 & God: Own Your Ghost". PopMatters . Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  11. ↑ Carle, Darren (April 26, 2011). "13 & God – Own Your Ghost". The Skinny . Retrieved November 21, 2014.
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  15. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – 13 & God – Own Your Ghost" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 6, 2018.

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