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72

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  • Summary: The rap duo releases their first studio album in seven years.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. 90
    While CrownsDown is a damn fine album that comes off as a more mature, refined rendition of Them, only time will tell if Themselves have created their own classic. Still, it should silence the cynics.
  2. As ever with Themselves, there aren’t really highlights or many changes of pace – it’s full-on, all the time; you don’t get skits between songs, just a second, third or fourth gabbling vocal line within these ten, unconventionally concise songs.
  3. Under The Radar
    70
    The resultant album is free of the over compensating braggadocio and tired memes of ring-tone rap culture. [Fall 2009, p.75]
  4. CrownsDown certainly achieves its obvious intent, its impeccable production, and untouchable vocal dexterity, firmly reestablishing the group as a definite talent.
  5. I prefer the more minimal style of Them, which was sharply critical--and deeply personal--without being hectoring or bombastic. But listeners who enjoy picking apart seam-bursting sonic worlds will find plenty to explore here.
  6. Q Magazine
    60
    Sometimes brillliant, but often baffling. [Nov 2009, p.107]
  7. Doseone’s rapping is thicketed to the point of impenetrability; whatever he wishes to convey gets lost in his internal rhymes.