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| 4 by Rolling Stone |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
Idlewild is a more down-tempo affair than its genre-splitting predecessor, but it wins points with stone-cold psychedelic soul classics such as "Mighty O," "Peaches" and "Hollywood Divorce." |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
With Idlewild you get a sumptuous surface that constantly excites, but reveals its secret charms with repeated listenings. |
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| n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk |
Ambitious but flawed, at turns stunning, maddening and confusing, Idlewild is a curate's egg - but the good parts are implausibly delicious. |
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| n/a by NME |
In any other hands this would have been a total disaster, but yes, things are never quite that simple with these two. |
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| n/a by www.rapreviews.com |
"Idlewild" seems to prove they're two seperate artists even more than the last double album did. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
It'd be easier to overlook the bum tracks if Idlewild boasted a knockout single like "Hey Ya!" or felt more cohesive, but the disc's shifts from upbeat pop to moody blues to noodly experimentation are downright whiplash-inducing. |
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| n/a by www.blender.com |
The two halves of OutKast seem less collaborative than ever. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Imperfect and absurdly oversized it may be, but only OutKast could have pulled off a crazy creative coup like "Idlewild". |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
Deft, flawed, entertaining, thrilling, and disappointing, often at the same time. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Initially, it’s thrilling in the way that any spectacle is. You admire the creative largesse, and there’s no doubt a strong 12-song album here. But at 79 minutes, exhaustion sets in by the midway mark, and the whole of the album takes on the feeling of someone trying to cap a broken water main. |
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| n/a by www.ew.com |
OutKast have stretched rap's boundaries to the breaking point before, but this time their experiments come across as gimmicky or strained. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
The most frustrating aspect of Idlewild is its lack of energy. |
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| n/a by www.calendarlive.com |
"Idlewild" leaves the ears longing for something. Coherence, basically. There's no sustaining mood, no clear message, only Benjamin and Patton's efforts to outdo whatever they came up with last. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Film-specific songs like "Make No Sense at All" and "Call the Law" fall flat out of context. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
The 'Idlewild' experience is mostly regrettable and one that will leave you feeling cheated. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
Idlewild fails in the same places as Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: both feature some stunningly flat crooning and poor pop revisions straight from the mind, body, and soul of Andre Benjamin. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
It's an interesting failure, as OutKast are probably incapable of making boring music, but a failure nonetheless. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
An awkward, uneven record that comes over like something they made in a week instead of something that was continually pushed back for more than a year. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
Their well-honed flamboyance has finally given way to full-blown pretension, the lyrics that used to be an afterthought hidden behind a painfully contrived yet musically unimpressive ragtimey veneer of muted trumpets, shoo-bop, shoo-wahs and happily jingling vaudeville pianas. |
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| 7 by Aftonbladet |
“Mighty-O”, låten som sparkar igång Outkasts väldigt försenade “Idlewild”-album, är första gången André 3000 och Big Boi rappar på samma låt sedan 2000. Det är pressmaterialet ... |
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| 7 by Dagensskiva.com |
“Mighty-O”, låten som sparkar igång Outkasts väldigt försenade “Idlewild”-album, är första gången André 3000 och Big Boi rappar på samma låt sedan 2000. Det är pressmaterialet ... |
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