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Desire is a taut and focused work that energizes, packed densely with typically Monch-like quotables that might take a couple listens to catch.
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No matter how smartly sequenced these parts are in Desire’s segmented flow, they remain varying nascent coups without one distinct rallying cry to organize the din.
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Monch stays versatile, political, and intellectual as he uses his many gifts to be at once motivational ("Hold On") and verbally ambidextrous ("The Trilogy"). A winner.
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Desire is most memorable as a collection of amazing verses. Not only is there not likely to be better rapping this year, Desire is the kind of album that reminds one of why emcees matter and just how much they can do.
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Eight years after his last album, Pharoahe's return doesn't disappoint.
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Monch might flounder into familiar indie territory if his music weren't so lucid and lively.
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A magnificent, genre-busting extravaganza specifically designed to make you think and wonder, blink and ponder, hold your head and say, “Damn,” and then pump your fist .
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Desire is an amazing record the story of Monch and his recording career is admirable in its own right.
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Desire’s successes stem chiefly from Pharoahe’s unimpeachably brilliant rhyme skills.
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Monch makes a lean 47 minutes seem epic in the best way.
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What Desire offers instead is at times cerebral and at times depraved, but invariably provocative.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 21
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Mixed: 1 out of 21
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Negative: 2 out of 21
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Apr 25, 2014
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RodneyJ.Dec 6, 2007
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DanA.Sep 23, 2007