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CrownsDown

Crowns Down
Studio album by Themselves
Released October 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length 40:28
Label Anticon
Producer Jel, Doseone
Themselves chronology
The Free Houdini
(2009)The Free Houdini2009
Crowns Down
(2009)
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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 72/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
BBC Music favorable
Drowned in Sound 8/10
Exclaim! favorable
Pitchfork 6.7/10
Robert Christgau (2-star Honorable Mention)
The Skinny 4/5 stars
Spectrum Culture 3.5/5
Tiny Mix Tapes 3.5/5 stars
XLR8R 8/10

Crowns Down (stylized as CrownsDown) is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Themselves. It was released on Anticon in 2009.

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".

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." 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."

BBC Music named it one of the best albums of 2009.


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