Cosmic Slop

Cosmic Slop
Studio album by Funkadelic
Released	July 1973 [1]
Recorded	1972–1973
Studio	United Sound Studio, Detroit; Manta Sound Studio, Toronto
Genre	Funk[2] rock[2] hard rock[2] proto-heavy metal[2]
Length	35:32
Label	Westbound WB-2022
Producer	George Clinton
Funkadelic chronology
America Eats Its Young (1972) Cosmic Slop (1973) Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (1974)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Blender	[4]
Christgau's Record Guide	B[5]
Mojo	[6]
Q	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	(9/10)[9]

Cosmic Slop is the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in July 1973 on Westbound Records. While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album was a commercial failure, producing no charting singles, and reaching only #112 on the Billboard pop chart and #21 on the R&B chart.^[10] The album was re-released on CD in 1991.^[7]

Cosmic Slop is the first Funkadelic album to feature artwork and liner notes by Pedro Bell, who assumed responsibility for the band's gate-fold album covers and liner notes until the band's collapse after 1981's The Electric Spanking of War Babies. Bell's liner notes to Cosmic Slop include small illustrations next to each song's name, summarizing the song in a picture.^[7]

Lloyd Bradley in Q Magazine characterised the album a "cornerstone ... coming just before James Brown sidepersons began defecting to Clinton's outfit' and "a link between fearsomely dark musings and out-and-out strangeness".^[7]