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Dec 11, 2013Guest shots from Paloma Faith, Emeli Sandé, Dizzee Rascal, and others make this one crowded album, but figuring out what to drop is nearly impossible as everyone hits the mark.
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MojoDec 18, 2013While reining in the triumphalism, Demonstration suffers from an overbearing sense of its own importance. [Jan 2014, p.97]
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Q MagazineNov 25, 2013So far, so US-obsessed, but scratch below the surface and there's a charismatic quirkiness to Tinie, that makes him an artist apart from his contemporaries. [Dec 2013, p.113]
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Nov 1, 2013To be clear, the good outweighs the bad here, but Tinie has lost a lot of the charm that, when he turns it on, makes him so appealing.
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Nov 11, 2013[A] chaotic, unwieldy mess.
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Nov 1, 2013Sonically, he's plumped for stark electronics that recall his teen years as a grime MC--a period recreated, with fellow rapper-turned-popster Dizzee Rascal, on the chilly Mosh Pit--but essentially the music is there to serve his observant lyrics.
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Nov 4, 2013Some of the fresh-faced charm has gone, but he is sounding more like a bona fide star.
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Nov 1, 2013There are enough decent moments to call Demonstration a success.
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Nov 1, 2013The result is as swaggeringly confident, brash and modern as any mainstream hip hop being produced anywhere in the world right now.
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Dec 9, 2014The stakes were so high, the pressure was on and what makes him interesting was ironed out in favour of low risk, high percentage choruses. Couple that with a mixed bag of lyrics from the rapper himself, and you get a curiously crafted mess that contains a few great songs that you'll end up loving, and lot of numbers that just weren't bold enough or executed with confidence.
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Nov 4, 2013This feels like a wearisome exercise in reasserting his market appeal.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 3 out of 19
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Nov 4, 2013