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  • Summary: Written and produced together for the first time, the latest release for the group that features influences of jazz, R&B, hip-hop and pop was recorded in New Orleans.
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Day to Day
Day to day Its now or never forever The moment is right here for the taking To walk away would be a mistake You give me the feeling I'm... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
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  1. Sep 19, 2016
    80
    Glasper has signaled an impatience with jazz on earlier Experiment ventures, but very definitely not on this one.
  2. Sep 22, 2016
    80
    At this point, Glasper, along with bassist Derrick Hodge, saxophonist Casey Benjamin, and drummer Mark Colenburg, are a well-oiled musical machine. As the Robert Glasper Experience, the quartet embrace jazz as they steer the genre into exciting directions.
  3. Mojo
    Oct 28, 2016
    80
    It's a giddy, breathless swirl of different sounds and styles. [Dec 2016, p.91]
  4. Sep 19, 2016
    76
    ArtScience is the Robert Glasper Experiment’s most realized effort, mainly because they’ve stopped relying on outside talent to get their point across. They’ve created their own vibe, one that needed their own voices to truly resonate.
  5. Sep 19, 2016
    70
    Though an occasional fondness for quiet storm R&B weighs down tracks like “Let’s Fall in Love” and the Herbie Hancock funk ballad, “Tell Me a Bedtime Story,” there’s plenty here to show Glasper’s Experiment is still driven toward discovery.
  6. Sep 19, 2016
    70
    An ingenious blend of soulful tunes and undeniable technique, ArtScience signals a bright, self-reliant future for the Robert Glasper Experiment.
  7. 60
    The Experiment’s increasingly obvious fault, though, is how close they keep to the middle of their many musical roads.

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  1. Nov 1, 2019
    10
    Just a devastatingly dope album....absolutely ridiculous rhythms, drum beats and breaks, vocoder, sax, thumping bass and obviously RG’sJust a devastatingly dope album....absolutely ridiculous rhythms, drum beats and breaks, vocoder, sax, thumping bass and obviously RG’s playing make for an incredible mix....I thoroughly enjoyed this and can’t stop playing it!! Expand