Put the Shine On

Put the Shine On is the seventh studio album by American musical group CocoRosie, released by Marathon Artists on March 13, 2020.

The sisters worked on the album between visits to their mother, Christina Chalmers, who died eleven days after providing backing vocals for the track “Ruby Red".

Sasha Geffen of Pitchfork gave the album a rating of 5.1 out of 10, describing it as an "incoherent melange" and "a return to their maximalist tendencies, piling on drum machines, chintzy synthesizers, over-the-top raps, and nu-metal guitars".

The review stated that the album's "complicated tone... gets blunted in the record's production," and notes the use of "stock hip-hop beats", "clumsy synth bass", "rhythmic elements", "fuzz bass", "distorted power chords", "harp loops", and lyrical content involving concepts like "generational trauma, mental illness, and sexual violence".

[1] The album was criticized by Cracked magazine for "tone-deaf levels of African American cultural appropriation."