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Mar 24, 2016Regardless of the constantly evolving mood, RJ finds new ways to surprise and engage your ears.
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Mar 24, 2016Dame Fortune is a culmination album with an artist's evolution pushing things forward with all his strengths in tow. Check Dead Ringer for that debut spark, and look to this one for something more skilled, bigger, but just as free-spirited.
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Apr 22, 2016In Dame Fortune, RJD2 engineers a set of compulsions that similarly evolve before you, and while no boundary is pushed here, his acute sense of sonic craftsmanship shows no sign of depreciating.
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Mar 28, 2016Much like the producer’s former offerings, Dame Fortune tries to be everything all at once, making for a good listen with occasional lapses.
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Mar 24, 2016Tracks like "Your Nostalgic Heart and Lung" and "PF, Day One" find RJD2 exploring the depths of his own synth work, without a sample in sight. Granted, they are actually some of the weaker tracks on the album, but it's a step towards a more mature sound that has room to grow.
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Apr 13, 2016The hastiness and outlandishness of the swerving soundscapes are the album’s strengths and it’s weaknesses, simultaneously keeping a listener enticed and running them ragged. Such zeal keeps Krohn’s final destination on the horizon, just out of reach.
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Mar 25, 2016As usual, it features some reliably masterful beat work and production, but, at the same time, falls somewhat short in becoming the grand defining statement that its creator was intending it to be.
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Mar 24, 2016In short, a breezy DJ set attuned for meditative easy listening. When this approach clicks, the results are nothing less than sumptuous, a rich panorama of material organized by an artist whose greatest talents seem to lie in curation.
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Mar 24, 2016The entirety of the record, in fact, feels like it’s trailing a few years behind. It frequently doesn’t quite grasp the soulful, jazz-adjacent vibes of the Brainfeeder crew and similar coastal cool.
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Apr 1, 2016RJD2 has made a bold statement with Dame Fortune but sadly one lacking in much resonance.