Delìrium Còrdia

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	65/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Alternative Press	[3]
Pitchfork	5.9/10[4]
Playlouder	[5]
Q	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Sputnikmusic	3.0/5[8]
Stylus	B+[9]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[10]
Uncut	[11]

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Delìrium Còrdia was met with mixed to positive reviews. Review aggregation site Metacritic lists its average score as 65 out of 100, characterising its reception as "generally favourable".^[1] AllMusic gave the album four stars out of five,^[2] and Stylus rated it B+, calling it "a balefully themed exercise in prompting your imagination".^[9] Rolling Stone awarded it three out of five stars, describing the 20-plus-minute end section as "maddening", though noting that it "demands repeated listens, if only to hear the freakish wonder that is Mike Patton's voice".^[7] Pitchfork were more critical, giving the album 5.9 out of 10, calling it "gloomy background music, and little else" though praising the "intensity" of Dave Lombardo's drumming.^[4]

Notes

• The name of the piece is sometimes thought to be "Surgical Sound Specimens from the Museum of Skin" (written on the back of the box) or the Richard Selzer M.D. quote (shown above). However, it is officially known as "Delìrium Còrdia".^[12]

• Mike Patton – vocals, samples, vocal percussion, producer, arrangement, design/layout
• Dave Lombardo – drums
• Buzz Osborne – guitar
• Trevor Dunn – bass
• Max Aguilera-Hellweg – photography (taken with permission from the book The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery, Bullfinch Press, ISBN 0-8212-2377-1)
• S. Husky Höskulds – engineer
• Mott Lange – assistant engineer
• Gene Grimaldi – mastering
• Martin Kvamme – artwork
• Richard Selzer – voices