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Aug 24, 2015DS2 finds a hellish, motivating power by articulating how it’s possible to have the best time of your life during the worst time of your life. And it all sounds so good.
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Jul 28, 2015DS2 is a uniformly awesome album, remarkable for the singularity of its vision, and it comes at absolutely the right time, when all eyes are on Future.
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Jul 22, 2015In place of Pluto and Honest’s love songs are emissions from the depths of Future’s psyche where light is unable to penetrate and whose denizens are twisted and ferocious.
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Jul 22, 2015Future was always straightforward, never ashamed to confess his depression or infatuation, but the narratives never felt so focused, nuanced, or vulnerable than here.
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Jul 28, 2015Smartly abandoning the sappy balladry that alienated many on his debut album, Pluto, and trimming all the excess fat that made Honest, an otherwise solid sophomore effort, feel largely uneven, Future goes for the gut and DS2 can pack a wallop.
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Jul 21, 2015DS2 is his strongest campaign yet, and it’s the first time a new Future album has met all expectations.
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The SourceOct 20, 2015The album is sonically pleasing. [#267, p.92]
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Jul 28, 2015Self-mythologizing aside, the music on DS2 is worthy of the praise lauded on Future.
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Jul 27, 2015Dirty Sprite 2 doesn’t survey any new territory for the croaking crooner, but it magnifies the depth of his distress and channels it into an even richer multilayered sonic experience.
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Jul 22, 2015Dirty Sprite 2 is a tremendous compendium of everything you want from a Future album in 2015.
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Jul 21, 2015DS2 is a relentless, dud-free hour that adds in most of his recent highlights to complete the story of his last year.
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Jul 20, 2015Four years after dropping his breakout mixtape, the follow-up is an exultant street album.
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Jul 20, 2015A coherent, consistent album--both thematically and sonically--that captures where hip-hop’s resident astronaut is residing these days.
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Jul 20, 2015With the release of the album DS2--Dirty Sprite 2, named after his hit mixtape -- he becomes a hip-hop version of Lee "Scratch" Perry, a strange and yet in command figure standing at the center of a slick, inventive swirl of music.
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Jul 20, 2015If you've followed Future's recent moves, DS2 is not unprecedented, but it greatly enhances the brooding ambiance of his recent work, a dive further into the abyss.
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Jul 20, 2015The majority of these beats hit to hurt, and though the emotional Future that listeners have come to know through past cuts "Throw Away" and "My Savages" has been dialled back, the honesty and vulnerability come through when it counts.
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Jul 24, 2015[A] foggy, glorious mess of an album.
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Aug 12, 2015It has little of the far-reaching ambition of Honest, but what it lacks in bold strokes, it more than makes up for in consistency.
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Jul 21, 2015Produced by a handful of trusted Atlanta trap producers, DS2 is gothic, narcotic and full of overcast skies.
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Oct 8, 2015Dirty Sprite 2, Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn's third album, is his most epicurean work yet.
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Aug 11, 2015If you can get into the fantasy and ignore the reality then DS2 might be good escapist music for a little while.
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Jul 22, 2015In lieu of artistry or any semblance of lyrical spark, DST offers monotonous production and relentless chanting.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 140 out of 176
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Mixed: 15 out of 176
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Negative: 21 out of 176
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