What Chaos Is Imaginary
by Girlpool
  • Record Label: Anti-
  • Release Date: Feb 1, 2019
User Score
6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Kiva
    Feb 1, 2019
    6
    It's not a bad album but something feels off. Some songs are pretty good and unique like Hire, Pretty and All black out but most of the songs sound the same. Not a bad listen but not a strong one. Expected more

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. No Ripcord
    Mar 19, 2019
    80
    Songs like All Blacked Out and Chemical Freeze are suffused with melancholic ambiance, where descending minor chords provide a fullness to their otherwise spare arrangements.
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  2. Punknews.org (Staff)
    Feb 12, 2019
    70
    Most of their new venture fits this bill and is actually worth the hype.
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  3. Paste Magazine
    Feb 8, 2019
    67
    Girlpool’s trajectory from Before the World Was Big to What Chaos Is Imaginary proves how an album can be many things: a meticulously cohesive monologue delivered by multiple voices, or a notebook stuffed full of intriguing yet somewhat dispersed ideas. What Chaos falls into the latter category, though its title includes a self-referential wink that implies the band both perceives and embraces the work’s disarray.
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