Mundo Civilizado


Mundo Civilizado is the second solo album by American musician Arto Lindsay.

Critical reception

Rock critic Robert Christgau lauded Mundo Civilizado as "a fragile, lyrical, sly, beatwise, embarrassingly beautiful cross-cultural appropriation that just goes to show how people grow up and settle down even when they don't." He named the album his favorite of 1997 in the annual Pazz & Jop poll published by The [Village Voice], and in 2021, he named it among the 10 best albums from the 1990s.

Track listing

  1. "Complicity" – 4:07
  2. "Q Samba" – 3:27
  3. "Simply Beautiful" – 3:59
  4. "Mundo Civilizado" – 4:24
  5. "Titled" – 3:19
  6. "Horizontal" – 3:32
  7. "Mar da Gávea" – 2:43
  8. "Imbassaí" – 3:18
  9. "Pleasure" – 2:38
  10. "Erotic City" – 5:02
  11. "Clown" – 3:50