Mundo Civilizado

Mundo Civilizado
Studio album by
Arto Lindsay
ReleasedMay 20, 1997
GenresArt pop, bossa nova, tropicália, jazz pop, experimental rock
Length40:24
LabelsBar None, Rykodisc
ProducersArto Lindsay with C-n-A (Andrés Levin and Camus Maré Celli)
Arto Lindsay chronology
O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body)
(1996)		 Mundo Civilizado
(1997)		 Noon Chill
(1997)

Mundo Civilizado is the second solo album by American musician Arto Lindsay.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar
Chicago TribuneStarStarStarStar
Christgau's Consumer GuideA+
Entertainment WeeklyA

Rock critic Robert Christgau lauded Mundo Civilizado as "a fragile, lyrical, sly, beatwise, embarrassingly beautiful cross-cultural appropriation that just goes to show how people grow up and settle down even when they don't." He named the album his favorite of 1997 in the annual Pazz & Jop poll published by The Village Voice, and in 2021, he named it among the 10 best albums from the 1990s.

Track listing

  1. "Complicity" – 4:07
  2. "Q Samba" – 3:27
  3. "Simply Beautiful" (Al Green cover) – 3:59
  4. "Mundo Civilizado" – 4:24
  5. "Titled" – 3:19
  6. "Horizontal" – 3:32
  7. "Mar da Gávea" – 2:43
  8. "Imbassaí" – 3:18
  9. "Pleasure" – 2:38
  10. "Erotic City" (Prince cover) – 5:02
  11. "Clown" – 3:50

References

  1. ↑ Anderson, Rick. "Mundo Civilizado – Arto Lindsay". AllMusic. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ Klein, Joshua (July 18, 1997). "Arto Lindsay: Mundo Civilizado (Bar/None) / Hyper Civilizado (Gramavision)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (2000). "Arto Lindsay: Mundo Civilizado". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 177. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ Brunner, Rob (July 11, 1997). "Mundo Civilizado". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  5. ↑ Christgau, Robert (February 24, 1998). "Pazz & Jop 1997: Dean's List". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Christgau, Robert (May 19, 2021). "Xgau Sez: May, 2021". And It Don't Stop. Substack. Retrieved May 23, 2021.