Cocoa Sugar | ||||
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Released | 9 March 2018 | |||
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Length | 36:45 | |||
Label | Ninja Tune | |||
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Singles from Cocoa Sugar | ||||
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Cocoa Sugar is the third studio album by Scottish indie group Young Fathers. It was released on Ninja Tune on 9 March 2018. It won the Scottish Album of the Year Award for 2018.[2] It peaked at number 28 on the UK Albums Chart.[3]
The album art, designed by Tom Hingston and photographed by Julia Noni, features band member Alloysious Massaquoi and is a direct homage to the Waldemar Świerzy's Polish poster for the 1969 drama film Midnight Cowboy.[4][5]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 8.2/10[6] |
Metacritic | 87/100[7] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [8] |
The A.V. Club | B+[9] |
The Guardian | [10] |
The Independent | [11] |
Mojo | [12] |
NME | [13] |
The Observer | [1] |
Pitchfork | 7.3/10[14] |
Q | [15] |
Uncut | 8/10[16] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 87, based on 21 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[7]
Clayton Purdom of The A.V. Club described the album as "a worthy progression, a tight stretch of otherworldly melodies, ramshackle percussion, and buzzing clouds of woozy ambient sound."[9]
Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
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NME | Albums of the Year 2018 | 24
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PopMatters | 70 Best Albums of 2018 | 1
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The Skinny | 50 Best Albums of 2018 | 1
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Stereogum | 50 Best Albums of 2018 | 40
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All tracks are written by Kayus Bankole, Timothy London, Graham "G" Hastings and Alloysious Massaquoi, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "See How" | 2:01 | |
2. | "Fee Fi" | 2:41 | |
3. | "In My View" | 3:15 | |
4. | "Turn" |
| 3:36 |
5. | "Lord" | 3:34 | |
6. | "Tremolo" | 3:08 | |
7. | "Wow" | 4:00 | |
8. | "Border Girl" | 4:01 | |
9. | "Holy Ghost" | 2:32 | |
10. | "Wire" | 1:40 | |
11. | "Toy" | 3:13 | |
12. | "Picking You" |
| 3:04 |
Total length: | 36:45 |
No. | Title | Length |
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13. | "Just a Kid" | 3:01 |
14. | "Out of My Mind Sometimes" | 2:04 |
Total length: | 41:50 |
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[22] | 37 |
UK Albums (OCC)[3] | 28 |
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[23] | 4 |
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[24] | 1 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[25] | 173 |