Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The A.V. Club	B+
Entertainment Weekly	B+
Robert Christgau
Pitchfork Media	7.4/10
The Guardian	(Burgess) (positive) (Empire)
Mojo
The Phoenix
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Crazy Itch Radio is the fourth studio album by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. The album features Linda Lewis and Swedish popstar Robyn among the guest vocalists.

The album was listed on several publications' year-end lists, including The Observer and PopMatters.

Simon Ratcliffe's also preparing, along with his wife, for the arrival of his first child. It's working out all right. We've been on tour around Europe for much of the summer. The baby is due on the twenty-ninth of September and the tour finishes in five days. So the timing is about right. I don't know how much of anything I'll do once the baby is born.

"The Crazy Itch of life is the thing that inspires and motivates you to act," explains Felix Buxton about the title of the album.

The duo ended up making about 40 songs for the album. "And then towards of the process of the album, we're like 'Okay, we got to focus on some now and get them finished.'"

The duo incorporated Balkan horns on the album.

It was originally scheduled for an early 2006 release but the release date was put back.

"Hush Boy" and "Take Me Back to Your House", were released as singles. "Hey U" was released as a single to digital download services in March 2007.

Compared with traditional songwriting, the band approach to creating music might appear to work backward. For example, on "Hush Boy", they created the song's melody with vocalist Vula Malinga over a basic track. Once it was recorded, they kept only Vula's vocal and rebuilt all the music under her voice from scratch. The band says this approach allows for a tremendous amount of freedom to explore different sounds.

The album was given a score of 73 out of 100 by Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews", although less-so than Basement Jaxx's previous records.Allmusic gave it 4 out of 5 stars, writing "at this point, it's impossible to imagine them topping themselves; an album that is merely deeply engaging and wildly entertaining cannot be considered a flop in any way." In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a two-star honorable mention (), stating, "Interchangeable ladies detail interchangeable ups and downs over beats whose changeabilty supposedly renders them indelible," and picked out two songs from the album, "Take Me Back to Your House" and "Run 4 Cover".

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