• Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Apr 17, 2012
Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. They've enlisted non-dance musos such as Robert Fripp, Barry Adamson, Nick Zinner and Josh Homme, as well as relative young 'uns Cat's Eyes and Factory Floor, with often delicious results
  2. Mar 28, 2012
    80
    A quality accompaniment and memorial.
  3. Apr 24, 2012
    70
    Just as Cave's Grinderman has toyed with the idea of how older artists should behave, Grinderman 2 RMX toys with the concept of the remix and proves that reworkings need not be danceable, they just need to appear a bit bruised.
  4. Apr 19, 2012
    60
    The individual entries on Grinderman 2 are all over the map quality-wise, from inert and utterly ignorable... to half-brilliant reframings of pretty singular material.
  5. 60
    Ultimately, the peaks and troughs of Grinderman 2 RMX come from magnifying both the good and the so-so qualities of the original source material and from finding the most imaginative or laziest ways to refashion them.
  6. 60
    Sometimes, the changes simply frustrate, as when Josh Homme rations out the hellhound gallop of "Mickey Bloody Mouse" too sparingly. But the additions can bring extra layers of exhilaration.
  7. Mar 28, 2012
    60
    Grinderman 2 RMX provides an enjoyable enough distraction but ultimately this is a collection of material that would have worked better as an EP rather than an album.
  8. Mar 28, 2012
    60
    Where RMX works, it is outstanding, but it is let down by too much flabby excess that for all its artfulness, weighs the album down like a millstone round the neck.
  9. Mar 28, 2012
    60
    There's value in finding their [remixers] take on Nick Cave's already unique sound.
  10. May 9, 2012
    50
    An EP might have worked, but apparently Grinderman had to milk it for all it was worth.
  11. Apr 17, 2012
    50
    When the tracks tend toward the predictable--which is more often than not--Grinderman 2 RMX stumbles.

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