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Awfully Deep Image
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 18 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the third album for London-based rapper Rodney Smith.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Smith has crafted an album that is deft, addictive and profoundly musical, and it feels like a fresh-minted classic.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    90
    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]
  3. 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.
  4. Smith’s tracks are both banging and self-effacing, yet the two opposite impulses never seem fully at odds with each other.
  5. Uncut
    80
    THe good stuff is terrific. [Mar 2005, p.104]
  6. 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.
  7. Spin
    58
    His third album mostly shelves the wit and sui generis style-clash. [Jun 2005, p.108]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Jimmy
    Jan 12, 2006
    10
    Pure Goodness
  2. AndrewO
    Mar 30, 2005
    10
    At times....dark, bright, sad, happy, serious, playfull...but entirely honest. Almost a "Brand New Second Hand."
  3. DerekL
    Feb 10, 2005
    9
    Awfully Deep, is an awfully good third album. Witness the Fitness.
  4. RadekL
    Feb 8, 2005
    9
    Awfully deep & awfully great!!!
  5. CornaldM
    Feb 12, 2005
    9
    This is the most inventive artist I've heard in years. Great wicked beats and vague lyrics whith an incredible flow.
  6. ChickenSupreme
    Apr 14, 2005
    9
    One 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.
  7. SpencerB
    Feb 8, 2005
    8
    A truly brilliant album. In strictly lyrical & musical terms probably his best yet, however in terms of fun and surprises, that accalade A truly brilliant album. In strictly lyrical & musical terms probably his best yet, however in terms of fun and surprises, that accalade remains with Run Coem Save me. Collapse

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