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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Big Boi's Speakerboxxx coolly upstages its counterpart: though it, too, provides the world with one earthshaking single, it differs from The Love Below in that it also manages to maintain consistent brilliance and emotional complexity throughout. |
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| 9 by Aftonbladet |
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| n/a by NME |
Two Technicolor explosions of creativity that people will be exploring, analysing and partying to for years. |
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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
OutKast's Big Boi sees the sharks circling, sniffing for blood. On "Tomb of the Boom," from his half of the duo's new album, he raps, "They say, 'Big Boi, can you pull it off without your nigga Dre?'/... |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Imperfect and ambitious, sometimes startling and always smart. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
You could of course, if you like, rip the best tracks from each album and burn them together into some kind of RIAA-baiting SuperLoveBoxxx CDR that creams all opposition with its x-ray vision, amazing strength and ability to leap multiple genres in a single bound, but that would be missing the point. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
Both albums are sublime. Taken together they're hip-hop's Sign o' the Times or The White Album: a career-defining masterpiece of breathtaking ambition. |
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| n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com |
Combining the two discs might have insured an unbeatable follow-up; however, the flawed, fascinating separation reveals what makes this partnership so special. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
Double the pleasure, double the fun? Definitely, definitely. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
If you can name me just one rapper that made a more complete record in 2003 than either of these two Southern boys' efforts, I’ll call you a liar. |
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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
No one musical entity, or group in the world comes close to the sum of their parts. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
It's like Lennon and McCartney solo albums: plenty of solid tunes, but the pen held together is mightier than a solo sword. |
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| n/a by www.dotmusic.com |
Their records sound very different, but they're both astounding. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
Where Dre twists Prince remnants to his own astroboyish amorous ends, Big Boi holds up OutKast's P-Funk revival tent. |
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| n/a by www.theonionavclub.com |
What's lost is considerable: namely, the justly vaunted lyrical chemistry between Andre 3000 and Big Boi. But what's gained is even more remarkable: the powerful, singular, undiluted visions of two of rap's most fearless sonic explorers. |
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| n/a by www.nudeasthenews.com |
Flaws aside, Speakerboxxx more than lives up to its billing.... The Love Below, however, is a revelation. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
[Speakerboxxx:] A worthy addition to the impressive OutKast catalogue.... [The Love Below:] Unfortunately, Attention Deficit Disorder just isn't a workable substitute for craft, nor is a preoccupation with sex quite the same as art. |
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| n/a by www.flakmag.com |
The discs are dense, musically diverse, sometimes phenomenal, sometimes foolish and long-winded, elegiac and uneven. It's a singularly interesting failure -- a noble miss along the lines of Radiohead's last three albums and Steve Earle's Jerusalem. |
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| n/a by www.newyorkmetro.com |
Speakerboxxx--by itself the album of the year--makes the failings of The Love Below all the more evident. |
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| 9 by Metica |
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| 8 by Dagensskiva.com |
Årets trevligaste hiphop-trend har ingenting med demonproducenter eller underjord att göra. Det är istället att albumen blivit kortare. Istället för att trycka in allt som bara går på en cd har de fle... |
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