Paranormal

AlbumJul 28 / 201718 songs, 1h 7m 36s
Hard Rock
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Pushing 70, Alice Cooper still knows how to have a good time. Produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, *Paranormal* recalls the golden age of albums like *Billion Dollar Babies* and *Welcome to My Nightmare*: campy, expertly calibrated hard rock, filled with sinister intimations and gleefully dumb jokes. Just listen to the roadhouse blues of “Fallen in Love” (featuring ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons), where Cooper bites off lines like “I’ve fallen in love and I can’t get up” without a flinch. Elsewhere, he riffs on societal degeneration (the soul-injected “Dead Flies”) and gender fluidity (“Genuine American Girl”), a subject on which the mascara-soaked Cooper was ahead of the curve by decades.

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Tyler, The Creator, Flower BoyGrade: A-

7.5 / 10

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4 / 5

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7.0 / 10

Paranormal, Cooper's first studio album since 2011's Welcome 2 My Nightmare, is a welcome surprise.

8 / 10

Alice Cooper's first studio release in six years shares many of the same elements as 2011's "Welcome 2 My Nightmare", which was a reimagination of Alice's first solo effort, 1975's "Welcome to My Nightmare". The album was intended as a collection of standalone songs to contrast with the previous "co...

Alice Cooper’s Paranormal is a reminder that loud, lumbering rock never goes out of style.

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Not pushing it too far is probably best

3.5 / 5

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