Cosmic Slop

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. The album was re-released on CD in 1991.

This article is about the album. For the 1994 television film, see Cosmic Slop (film).
Cosmic Slop
Studio album by
Funkadelic
ReleasedJuly 1973
Recorded1972-1973
StudioUnited Sound Studio, Detroit; Manta Sound Studio, Toronto
Genre
Length35:32
LabelWestbound
WB-2022
ProducerGeorge Clinton
Funkadelic chronology
America Eats Its Young
(1972)		 Cosmic Slop
(1973)		 Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Blender
Christgau's Record GuideB
Mojo
Q
Rolling Stone
Spin(9/10)

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.

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".

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