Put the Shine On

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Put the Shine On
CocoRosie - Put the Shine On.png
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 13, 2020 (2020-03-13)
Length54:32
Label Marathon Artists
CocoRosie chronology
Heartache City
(2015)
Put the Shine On
(160)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 58/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 5.1/10 [5]

Put the Shine On is the seventh studio album by American musical group CocoRosie, released by Marathon Artists on March 13, 2020. [6] [7]

Contents

Recording

Put the Shine On was recorded primarily in San Francisco, California. Early performances were tested at their brother Nathan's ranch on the Big Island of Hawaii, where the sisters spend much of their time writing. The songs "Aloha Friday" and "Lamb and the Wolf" were both inspired by watching lambs on the ranch, including an episode where their brother had to kill an injured lamb. [8] [9]

The album's sound has notable hip hop influence, as the Casady sisters had worked with rapper Chance the Rapper on his album The Big Day prior. The sisters worked on the album between visits to their mother, Christina Chalmers, who died eleven days after providing backing vocals for the track “Ruby Red". [10]

Critical reception

Put the Shine On received mixed reviews. Sasha Geffen of Pitchfork gave the album a rating of 5.1 out of 10, describing it as an "incoherent melange" and "a return to their maximalist tendencies, piling on drum machines, chintzy synthesizers, over-the-top raps, and nu-metal guitars". The review stated that the album's "complicated tone... gets blunted in the record's production," and notes the use of "stock hip-hop beats", "clumsy synth bass", "rhythmic elements", "fuzz bass", "distorted power chords", "harp loops", and lyrical content involving concepts like "generational trauma, mental illness, and sexual violence". [10]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 58, based on 5 reviews. [1]

The album was criticized by Cracked magazine for "tone-deaf levels of African American cultural appropriation." The song "Hell's Gate" incorporates elements from traditional slave songs, which the magazine called a "bewildering" choice. [11]

Track listing

Put the Shine On track listing
No.TitleLength
1."High Road"4:06
2."Mercy"4:00
3."Restless"5:48
4."Smash My Head"4:26
5."Where Did All the Soldiers Go"4:44
6."Hell's Gate"5:18
7."Did Me Wrong"3:40
8."Lamb and the Wolf"4:32
9."Slow Down Sun Down"4:30
10."Burning Down The House"4:38
11."Ruby Red"4:30
12."Aloha Friday"4:20
Total length:54:32

Charts

Chart performance for Put the Shine On
Chart (2020Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [12] 76
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [13] 44

References

  1. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  2. Phares, Heather. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. Wydle, Nicoletta (March 11, 2020). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  4. Mackay, Emily (March 16, 2020). "CocoRosie: Put the Shine On review: a return to core idiosyncrasies". The Observer . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  5. Geffen, Sasha (March 18, 2020). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  6. Straus, Matthew (October 30, 2019). "CocoRosie Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  7. Gregory, Allie (October 30, 2019). "CocoRosie Announce New Album". Exclaim! . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  8. "CocoRosie Expand on the Art and Aesthetic of 'Put the Shine On'". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  9. "CocoRosie Returns With New Single "Aloha Friday," Announces Tour Dates". Ghettoblaster Magazine. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  10. 1 2 "CocoRosie: Put the Shine On". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  11. "Put the Shine On". Cracked Magazine . Retrieved 2023-07-06.
  12. "Offiziellecharts.de – CocoRosie – Put the Shine On" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  13. "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 20, 2020.