Fist of God is the second album by Mstrkrft, released on 17 March 2009 by Last Gang Records and Dim Mak Records/Downtown Records.

Fist of God
Studio album by Mstrkrft
Released	17 March 2009
Genre	Electro house
Length	38:45
Label	Last Gang Dim Mak / Downtown
Producer	Mstrkrft
Mstrkrft chronology
The Looks (2006) Fist of God (2009) Operator (2016)
Singles from Fist of God
"Bounce / Vuvuvu" Released: 1 April 2008 "Heartbreaker" Released: 26 July 2009

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	58/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Clash	7/10[3]
NME	[4]
Pitchfork	6.0/10[5]
PopMatters	3/10[6]

Initial critical response to Fist of God was average. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 58, based on 122 reviews.[1] Jesse F. Keeler told Clash that he expected the mixed reception:

I expect a lot of people to not like the record, but I expect a lot more people to like the record now that we’ve reached a way bigger audience making it. It might sound like a calculated business move, but it was mainly a musical thing. We kinda knew what the reaction’d be, and we even told a lot of the kids on the message boards: ‘Well, a lot of you are gonna hate it’. It’s difficult, too, you know, because a lot of people have just discovered us, and they’re going to go on this record initially; but we didn’t want to make a record that was too ‘now’. We could have got a lot of the rappers - like The Cool Kids, Spank Rock and Kid Sister - but we tried to choose things and people that were more timeless. And, anyway, I love bad reviews, they’re my favourite things.[3]

Track listing

Charts

References