Carboniferous (album)
Encyclopedia
Carboniferous is a studio album from the Italian
band Zu
. It was the group's first album for Ipecac records.
, which assigns a normalized
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average
score of 83, based on ten reviews.
Music of Italy
The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources. Music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in...
band Zu
Zu (band)
- Biography :Hailing from Ostia, a town near Rome, Zu are an atypical trio made of drums, electric bass, baritone saxophone and electronics. Formed in Rome in 1997, they began as composers and players for theatre performances. The band is composed of three members: Luca Mai on baritone saxophone,...
. It was the group's first album for Ipecac records.
Reception
Initial critical response to Carboniferous was very positive. At MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, which assigns a normalized
Standard score
In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average
Weighted mean
The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...
score of 83, based on ten reviews.
Track listing
- "Ostia" – 4:55
- "Chthonian" – 6:48 (feat. King Buzzo)
- "Carbon" – 4:24
- "Beata Viscera" – 3:57
- "Erinys" – 3:43
- "Soulympics" – 5:05 (feat. Mike PattonMike PattonMichael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
) - "Axion" – 5:21
- "Mimosa Hostilis" – 4:09
- "Obsidian" – 6:29
- "Orc" – 5:20 (feat. Mike PattonMike PattonMichael Allan "Mike" Patton is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the metal/experimental rock band Faith No More. He has also sung for Mr...
)