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| n/a by www.playlouder.com |
He doesn't plunder, he interweaves - stuff gets thoroughly snake-charmed into his densely-packed music. |
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| n/a by www.splendidezine.com |
A Healthy Distrust is impressively fluid; Francis fuses his experimental leanings and newer mainstream hip-hop allowances with ease. |
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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
His talents seemingly know no bounds, and A Healthy Distrust is as close as he’s come to fully realising such a dominating on-stage character on a recorded format. |
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| n/a by www.rapreviews.com |
Sage Francis is obviously not for everyone. Though he is a gifted lyricist, he is hard to follow, and the entirety of "A Healthy Distrust" has a rough edge that makes it far from easy listening. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
His style has finally caught up with his intellect, and while his beats are passable but unexceptional, his voice locks onto and scans over them so ferociously they're almost obliterated. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Sage transcends genre limitations and expectations with restless energy and poetic turns of phrase that keep his mystery (or, arguably, his lack of defined answers) intriguing rather than irritating. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
There are certain instances when Francis' politics overreach, like on the annoying "Dance Monkey,” but for the most part, “A Healthy Distrust” is this artist's most impressive album yet. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
Distrust is crucial not only as the resurrection of the passion and soul of hip-hop in the face of the overwhelming monetary success of pop-hop, but as a vital questioning of feudal policy, raising awareness, and sounding good doing it. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
On A Healthy Distrust his delivery has noticeably improved. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
A Healthy Distrust reinforces Sage Francis’ standing as one of the most verbally gifted rappers currently in the game, but it lacks the cohesive flow of Personal Journals and complains about a host of worldly ills without offering much in the way of a positive solution. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
A Healthy Distrust’s production and wordplay have improved to such a large degree that it’s hard to believe that it could happen again on the next outing. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
It is uncompromising, brutally honest... and adroit at melding many genres together without losing sight of the fact it is first a hip-hop record. |
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| n/a by www.adequacy.net |
It’s a virulent mixture of political discourse, political polemic, self-aggrandizement, self-diminution, childish humor, and intelligent irony; but, above all, everything is pulled off with undeniable character. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
His weighty messages are duly noted. Unfortunately, they're delivered so acrimoniously that the overwhelming lack of fun in the music makes his albums a chore to listen to. |
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