Crowns Down

Crowns Down (stylized as CrownsDown) is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Themselves. It was released on Anticon in 2009.[1] A remix version of the album, Crowns Down & Company, was released in 2010.[13]

Crowns Down
Studio album by
Themselves
ReleasedOctober 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)[1]
GenreAlternative hip hop
Length40:28
LabelAnticon
ProducerJel, Doseone
Themselves chronology
The Free Houdini
(2009)		 Crowns Down
(2009)		 Crowns Down & Company
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
BBC Musicfavorable[4]
Christgau's Consumer Guide[5]
Drowned in Sound8/10[6]
Exclaim!favorable[7]
Pitchfork6.7/10[8]
The Skinny[9]
Spectrum Culture3.5/5[10]
Tiny Mix Tapes[11]
XLR8R8/10[12]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72% based on 7 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.7 out of 10 and described it as "a back-to-basics album from a group who probably needs one, having ventured so far afield."[8] Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! said, "Themselves may not have snatched the crown but they've certainly thrown down the gauntlet with CrownsDown, their confident and comfortable return to the royal rap court."[7]

BBC Music named it one of the best albums of 2009.[14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Doseone and Jel, except "Back II Burn" by Doseone, Jel, and Pedestrian.

No.TitleLength
1."Back II Burn"4:06
2."Oversleeping"3:15
3."The Mark"4:54
4."Gangster of Disbelief"3:50
5."Daxstrong"3:37
6."You Ain't It"3:48
7."Roman Is As Roman Does"4:00
8."Skinning the Drum"3:34
9."Deadcatclear II"5:30
10."Gold Teeth Will Roll"4:00

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Themselves

  • Doseone – vocals, production
  • Jel – vocals, production

Additional musicians

Technical personnel

  • Odd Nosdam – mixing
  • Yoni Wolf – mixing
  • Mike Wells – mastering
  • Doseone – photography
  • Matthew Scott – photography
  • K Photo – photography
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.
gollark: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/348702212110680064/896356765267025940/FB_IMG_1633757163544.jpg
gollark: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
gollark: Frankly, go emit muon neutrinos.
gollark: If your study produces no result you just won't publish it, which leads to some bias.

References
  1. "CrownsDown". Anticon. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  2. "Crownsdown by Themselves". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  3. Anderson, Rick. "Crownsdown - Themselves". AllMusic. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  4. Kennedy, Adam (2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown - Review". BBC Music. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  5. Christgau, Robert. "Themselves". Christgau's Consumer Guide. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  6. Tudor, Alexander (October 22, 2009). "themselves - CrownsDown". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  7. Quinlan, Thomas (December 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  8. Howe, Brian (October 20, 2009). "Themselves: CrownsDown". Pitchfork. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  9. Maloney, Ali (October 29, 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". The Skinny. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  10. Hanover, Nick (November 19, 2009). "Themselves: Crownsdown". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  11. Rovinelli, Jeffrey Dunn (October 29, 2009). "Themselves - CrownsDown". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  12. Fallon, Patric (October 20, 2009). "CrownsDown". XLR8R. Archived from the original on October 26, 2013. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  13. "CrownsDown & Company". Anticon. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  14. Diver, Mike (January 6, 2010). "BBC Music's Best Albums of 2009". BBC Music. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
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