Free Your Mind
by Cut Copy
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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  1. Mojo
    Nov 22, 2013
    60
    It's time for Cut Copy to free its own mind too. [Dec 2013, p.89]
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  2. The Quietus
    Nov 18, 2013
    60
    The result is that you're having fun--on tracks like the stellar title-track and the popping candy overload of 'Let Me Show You Love' you can't help it--but increasingly it feels hollow... almost kitsch, and deep down you know that you, and the band, can really do better.
  3. Drowned In Sound
    Nov 8, 2013
    60
    Like most earnest attempts to reimagine the past, it’s an entertaining indulgence. One that exists to stave off the nagging question: what comes next?
  5. DIY Magazine
    Nov 1, 2013
    60
    It's a 'take it or leave it' kind of record, but invest in Cut Copy's deranged aims and it'll feel like being part of a free-spirited cult.
  6. musicOMH.com
    Nov 11, 2013
    50
    While their venture into psychedelia was a failed experiment, everything about Free Your Mind, from its title to its monotonous songs, is undeniably lazy.
  7. Slant Magazine
    Nov 4, 2013
    50
    Considering their rather straightforward musical blueprint, every Cut Copy album is a bit of a recycle job, but Free Your Mind seems excessively so, almost to the point of motorized lifelessness.
  8. PopMatters
    Nov 6, 2013
    40
    The major misstep on Free Your Mind is eschewing those decent lyrical impulses in favor of rather limp and unaccomplished (and repeated!) inanities such as “free your mind” and “shine on,” phrases that should be confined, respectively, to the lexicons of aging hippies and Roger Waters.
  9. Spin
    Nov 5, 2013
    40
    The record is so one-note it makes its predecessor sound like an entire season at the London Philharmonic.
  10. The Guardian
    Oct 31, 2013
    40
    Without the trippy grit you're left in a happy hippy wonderland, conscious that the melodies are thin, the lyrics trite ("You've got to live your life today, tomorrow is a world away") and the composite elements dully familiar.

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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 28
  3. Negative: 2 out of 28
  1. WadeVS
    Nov 5, 2013
    5
    It's all just a bit bizarre. 90s cheese-rave. Somewhere between Ace Of Base and James Blake. Doesn't sound like the band we know and love.It's all just a bit bizarre. 90s cheese-rave. Somewhere between Ace Of Base and James Blake. Doesn't sound like the band we know and love. Just odd.................................................................................................… Full Review »
  2. Blendycat
    Nov 7, 2013
    10
    This album is filled to the brim with Madchester-style goodness. Imagine if someone invited New Order, The Orb, KLF, Happy Mondays, and PrimalThis album is filled to the brim with Madchester-style goodness. Imagine if someone invited New Order, The Orb, KLF, Happy Mondays, and Primal Scream to their house and threw one hell of a party. The 808 State birds I especially enjoyed. This is the sort of music I remember from when I first fell in love with electronic music, before EDM was reduced to vapid electro four on the floor goo for the masses. [I'm looking at you Calvin Harris and David Guetta..you ruined music!]

    Meet Me In A House Of Love is the BEST song on the album and possibly the greatest song they have written to date. Corner of the Sky and So Haunted being tied for second.    … Full Review »
  3. Fernando_lerma
    Sep 13, 2020
    9
    If In Ghost Colors is a masterpiece inspired by the 80's, Free Your Mind sounds like a masterpiece set in the 90's, it is direct, powerful andIf In Ghost Colors is a masterpiece inspired by the 80's, Free Your Mind sounds like a masterpiece set in the 90's, it is direct, powerful and solid. I have listened to this album for a long time.… Full Review »
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