Critical reception Online music critic Gino Sorcinelli lauded
Troupeau Bleu's "distinctive sound", stating that "All the drum hits are crisp as fuck, every piano and organ sequence is impeccable, the basslines sit perfectly in the pocket and complement each composition, and Mireille Dalbray's vocals are unbelievable... They sound like they're floating on top of each track."
Opera Mundi lauded the album's diverse, cosmopolitan sense of genre, as well as Dalbray's vocals overlaid over the songs' instrumentation. When asked whether
Troupeau Bleu could be considered "hip-hop's favorite jazz album", American producer-rapper
Cash Cobain stated "It's not an overstatement... It's a fact." (Cobain had been a fan of Tyler, the Creator's sample of Cortex in "Odd Toddlers" from 2009 and went on to produce
Lil Yachty's "Cortex"—another song sampling the band—in 2021.) Mion observed that Cortex was still able to sell thousands of albums in the twenty-first century as a result. By 2022, Cortex made several stops in the
United States thanks to logistical support from
Ali Shaheed Muhammad (a former member of
A Tribe Called Quest),
Adrian Younge, and their label
Jazz Is Dead. At a concert tour stop at
Music Hall of Williamsburg in
Brooklyn on September 28, 2022, "concert-goers of all ages wearing
MF DOOM memorabilia quickly filled the Brooklyn venue... Within 10 minutes, Cortex's
Troupeau Bleu tees had run out."
Rolling Stone also reported that
Tyler, the Creator was in attendance. In 2021, Yachty sampled "Huit Octobre 1971" for "CORTEX", a song released exclusively on
YouTube. In
Pitchfork, writer and critic Alphonse Pierre wrote that the "best" samples of "Huit Octobre 1971" are "One Beer" by MF DOOM and "Visions" by Wiz Khalifa.
Passion of the Weiss, in an interview with Mion, reported that the website
WhoSampled tracked that Cortex's albums had been sampled "164 times" as of October 2022. Specifically,
Troupeau Bleu had been sampled "142 times" as of October 2022. Of the band's discography writ large,
Passion of the Weiss noted that "Each has been used extensively as samples, even as group members left and joined up over the decades." Mion stated in
Rolling Stone that he has always accepted contracts regarding the usage of Cortex's music for sampling purposes and has believed "all of the sampling was ultimately a good thing" even though "rap is still not necessarily his taste". (Mion, however, expressed interest in the rapper
Lupe Fiasco.) Upon being asked why Cortex "has resonated with a younger generation of rap musicians", Mion stated: "People in hip-hop use a lot of soul music... [Troupeau Bleu] has soul, it's particular, it's original, and it's French... It could also be because we're geniuses." == Personnel ==