Afrociberdelia

Afrociberdelia is a nice album by Chico Science. the songs are energetic rock with hip hop vocal delivery. The quality of the songs varies. Some are rather generic rock and sometimes the song and performance work great. I understand that the front man (Chico Science) died in a car crash after the this album was created, giving it some legendary status. Having non-English contributions is always refreshing, so it will get 4 stars to support our Brazilian friends.

Somehow, the combination of rock, funk, hiphop and Brazilian music is very catchy. Never tot bored while listening to this album

This is great funny fun. I think the version on Spotify is probably a “deluxe” extended edition so I’m choosing to rate the 1st 40mins - which is 5 star for me.

Now we're talking. I'm ashamed to give all my other 5-star ratings before this album on the users' list. This is truly missing in the original list.

Extremely fun if you imagine the singer being animated like Hotel Transylvania, squash-and-stretching all over the stage as he sings. Kinda loses a bit of steam in the second half, but still a gem. 4/5

Sometimes it's pretty "generic rock but this time it's from Brazil". I would give this 3 stars. I like being exposed to music countries/cultures other than my own, but it is *very* run-of-the-mill. Sometimes it veers into Thievery Corporation territory, especially with some of the album-closing remixes. I would give this 5 stars because it completely fucks. So we'll average out to 4 and call it a day, thank you very much.

Felt the language barrier acutely on this one. Sometimes vocals are mostly another instrument but here it was clear the meaning mattered. Lacking that my ability to judge this is limited but the music was great.

This is pretty good, fun. No clue at all about what it's about. Not sure I need to.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Macô, Um passeio no mundo livre, Maracatu Atomico

Lively and interesting... worthy of listening to before you die.

I applaud this for being something interesting. It doesn't work, but it's interesting. It's also way too long. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

It’s cool that all countries have goofy okay hip hop

Rockin

Yeah not made for me

November 11, 2025 HL: "Manguetown", "Maracatu Atômico" (Ragga Mix), "Macô", "Quilombo Groove", maybe "Corpo de Lama" I am grateful to confirm that Brazilian music is more than just MPB and Sepultura. (as the callbacks to Os Mutantes remind me, there's also the psychedelic-leaning Tropicália groups I am still conflicted about this album. The blend of different rhythms & percussion is the best thing about it, however when it turns into 90's rap-rock, I didn't find myself enjoying it any more than Chico Science's English-language contemporaries Fun Lovin' Criminals and Beck. I normally try not to mess with the tracklist if I haven't heard an album previously... but I sprinkled all the Maracatu Atomicos throughout the record in roughly equal intervals. It's a good song but not good enough to hear three times in a row.

It was ok.

It took me a couple of tracks to settle into the groove of this, but this was a pretty fun listen. Funky and musically diverse. Thanks for the submission. Fave Songs: Manguetown, Maco, Um Passeio No Mundo Livre, Quilombo Groove, O Cidadao Do Mundo

Manguebeat, art rock, punk rock. Ni fu ni fa.

Foreign rap/rock that went on too long

This was ok, but didn’t stand out as anything special. Maybe the langue barrier didn’t help.

This is one of the only times I think I've ever said "this isn't what I expected" and meant it negatively. The album cover screams 90s, but the genres and general vibes told me this may be something fun to dive in to, despite its length. However, after the first few tracks the rock influences started to wear on me, just being cheesy, and by the end, despite a couple tracks almost grabbing me, I was ready to be done with the singer's frankly annoying voice and the general repetitiveness of the whole project, despite the small variations between tracks. Maybe if it was a shorter album I would be nicer, but I come away from this just feeling like I wasted my time, but maybe I should've expected that would happen the whole time.

I don't really like hip hop in my own language, you can tell they're having fun with it though.

hahah wtf is this 2

Nice to see some more international picks for the list, but this LP didn't wow me really. There's an interesting blend of hard-hitting French vocals mixed with electronica and traditional styles, but little dynamic contrast means the aggressive delivery starts to blend together after a while. Some more ebbs and flows in the energy could've made this a standout, just kinda blended into the background as it is for me.

This is some pretty generic 90s sounding rock but with a Brazilian twist. I mean outside of not understanding this it just felt like simple alternative from the 90s. There were a few songs that thrashed a bit hard but most of them felt repetitive. Mix that into it being over an hour and you lose me. 2.8/10