10th Avenue Freakout

10th Avenue Freakout is the third studio album by American indie rock band Fog. It was released on Lex Records in 2005.

10th Avenue Freakout
Studio album by
Fog
ReleasedMarch 22, 2005 (2005-03-22)
GenreIndie rock experimental rock, ambient, indietronica, jazz fusion
Length58:32
LabelLex Records
ProducerAndrew Broder, Tom Herbers
Fog chronology
Ether Teeth
(2003)		 10th Avenue Freakout
(2005)		 Ditherer
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic78/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Billboardfavorable[3]
Cokemachineglow61/100[4]
Pitchfork6.8/10[5]
Stylus MagazineC+[6]
XLR8Rfavorable[7]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, 10th Avenue Freakout received an average score of 78% based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Ben Peterson of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "a rhythmic, up-front electronic-pop album, much less pensive and subdued than Fog's previous full-length, Ether Teeth."[2] He called it "consistently imaginative and never predictable."[2] Liz Cordingley of XLR8R said: "Volleying between forceful and quirky, the avant-garde approach of this album gets closer to the human side of jazz than any digitized hip-hop beat."[7] Ron Hart of Billboard called it "the most adventurous work in the Fog catalog yet."[3]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Can You Believe It?"2:58
2."We're Winning"3:31
3."10th Avenue Freakout"4:38
4."The Rabbit"4:39
5."Song About a Wedding"4:15
6."Holy! Holy! Holy!"4:57
7."The Small Burn"6:15
8."Hummer"3:19
9."O Telescope"3:24
10."Goody Gumdrops"3:00
11."The Poor Fella"6:12
12."A Murder"5:11
13."The Hully Gully"6:13

References
  1. "10th Avenue Freakout by Fog". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  2. Peterson, Ben. "10th Avenue Freakout - Fog". AllMusic. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  3. Hart, Ron (April 21, 2005). "Fog, "10th Avenue Freakout"". Billboard. Archived from the original on April 22, 2005. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  4. Betz, Chet (March 23, 2005). "Fog: 10th Avenue Freakout". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on December 11, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  5. Howe, Brian (March 20, 2005). "Fog: 10th Avenue Freakout". Pitchfork. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  6. Merwin, Charles (April 15, 2005). "Fog - 10th Avenue Freakout". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on October 27, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  7. Cordingley, Liz (May 10, 2005). "Fog: 10th Avenue Freakout". XLR8R. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
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