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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
The Private Press is more solid an album than anyone dared expect from an older, wiser DJ Shadow, and though it won't be televising another revolution, I'd be lying if I said its celebratory pleasure centers didn't communicate directly with my own. |
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| n/a by NME |
'The Private Press' isn't a remarkable record - it lacks that startling and instinctive excitement capable of pushing music into the realm of the era-defining. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
An aurally hypnotizing collection that is comparable to, if not better than, Endtroducing. |
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| 3.5 by Rolling Stone |
Line up for "Attack of the Clones" if you want -- for a totally different breed of science-fiction geek, the long-awaited follow-up of the summer belongs to DJ Shadow. Shadow, otherwise known as Calif... |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
The Private Press is a more diverse collection of styles and sounds, and still surpasses anything else out there. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
Few approach this style of record making with as much playfulness and gravity. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Accomplished and occasionally great as this album is, Endtroducing still casts the biggest shadow on it of all. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
In essence, it's a younger, fitter and infinitely hipper version of what Moby is doing. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
It's all good folks but let's be clear. IT'S NOT GENIUS. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
An intentionally loose-strung concept of hip-hop and psychedelia, which at times loses focus. |
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| n/a by www.dotmusic.com |
It feels like the work of a man groping his way, fastidiously but uncertainly, towards the next level. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
The record sounds like it came a year or so after Endtroducing--which is to say, it goes a little deeper in summoning Gothic textures and awesome drum samples, and arrives as a delayed, well-fitting follow-up to a landmark. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
The Private Press is full of rollicking beats, spectral tone colors, and enough subtle textures and supple surfaces to fill a textile warehouse. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
At first, The Private Press plays like a bland kiss-off to followers expecting a big-time event record. But once its blood has time to flow, the album swells from a strained capillary to a coursing vein. |
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| n/a by www.nudeasthenews.com |
The Private Press does not break ground like Endtroducing... did, but it showcases a wiser, more versatile Shadow, and in many ways it is a better record than its predecessor. |
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| n/a by www.almostcool.org |
The Private Press is not only more ambitious, but simply more all over the place as well (which makes for brilliant moments as well as some inconsistent ones). |
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| n/a by www.newyorkmag.com |
It's less rootsy than its predecessor, as Shadow moves from the bohemian, jazzy hip-hop he's come to be associated with to more synthetic sounds like electro and synth pop. |
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