Mundo Civilizado

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

Mundo Civilizado
Studio album by Arto Lindsay
Released	May 20, 1997
Genre	Art pop, bossa nova, tropicália, jazz pop, experimental rock
Length	40:24
Label	Bar None, Rykodisc
Producer	Arto Lindsay with C-n-A (Andrés Levin and Camus Maré Celli)
Arto Lindsay chronology
O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body) (1996) Mundo Civilizado (1997) Noon Chill (1997)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	A+[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A[4]

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."^[3] He named the album his favorite of 1997 in the annual Pazz & Jop poll published by The Village Voice,^[5] and in 2021, he named it among the 10 best albums from the 1990s.^[6]

Track listing

1. "Complicity" – 4:07
2. "Q Samba" – 3:27
3. "Simply Beautiful" (Al Green cover) – 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" (Prince cover) – 5:02
11. "Clown" – 3:50