- alternative rock, rock
- 51 min
- 13 tracks
- Elevator Lady Ltd.
Black Market Music is the third studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo, released on 9 October 2000 by record label Hut. The album took nine months to record, from late 1999 to mid-2000; at the time, it was the longest the band had spent recording an album until 2022's Never Let Me Go.
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Character
Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 65/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Alternative Press4/5 ★
- Christgau's Consumer Guideambiguous
- Drowned in Sound8/10
- NMEunfavorable
- Pitchfork2.4/10
- PopMattersneutral
- Rolling Stone2.5/5 ★
- Q3/5 ★
- Trouser Pressneutral
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Tracks
- 1Taste in Men4:15
- 2Days Before You Came2:33
- 3Special K3:52
- 4Spite and Malice3:37
- 5Passive Aggressive5:24
- 6Black‐Eyed3:48
- 7Blue American3:31
- 8Slave to the Wage4:07
- 9Commercial for Levi2:21
- 10Haemoglobin3:46
- 11Narcoleptic4:22
- 12Peeping Tom5:17
- 13Black Market Blood3:58
13 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Placebo
- Label
- Elevator Lady Ltd.
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- AF
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