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- Summary: This is the third album for London-based rapper Rodney Smith.
- Record Label: Big Dada
- Genre(s): Rap
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Positive: 16 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Smith has crafted an album that is deft, addictive and profoundly musical, and it feels like a fresh-minted classic.
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New Musical Express (NME)A set of immense maturity that never rubs your nose in its thematic complexity, compositional innovation and thunderous thump-beats. [29 Jan 2005, p.58]
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Awfully Deep is another strong release for Smith, and while it doesn’t sport the effortless flow of his debut or the rich variety of Run Come Save Me, its considered assessment of where he’s been and where he might be heading helps the album more than live up to its title.
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Smith’s tracks are both banging and self-effacing, yet the two opposite impulses never seem fully at odds with each other.
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UncutTHe good stuff is terrific. [Mar 2005, p.104]
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Awfully Deep, on the whole, is a bold, ambitious swing for the fences. But, like it or not, the game's done changed, and Manuva '05 sounds way too much like Manuva '01.
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SpinHis third album mostly shelves the wit and sui generis style-clash. [Jun 2005, p.108]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 9
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Mixed: 0 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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JimmyJan 12, 2006Pure Goodness
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AndrewOMar 30, 2005At times....dark, bright, sad, happy, serious, playfull...but entirely honest. Almost a "Brand New Second Hand."
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DerekLFeb 10, 2005Awfully Deep, is an awfully good third album. Witness the Fitness.
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RadekLFeb 8, 2005Awfully deep & awfully great!!!
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CornaldMFeb 12, 2005This is the most inventive artist I've heard in years. Great wicked beats and vague lyrics whith an incredible flow.
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ChickenSupremeApr 14, 2005One of the albums of the year for sure as Mr Smith once again matches dub up with electro squelches to create a very personal and touching album.
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SpencerBFeb 8, 2005
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