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- Summary: The second full-length release from the alternative R&B duo features guest appearances from Taylor Brown, Meshell Ndegeocello, Porter Ray, and Shabazz Palaces.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Rap, R&B, Alternative Rap, Left-Field Hip-Hop, Alternative R&B
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Feb 24, 2015It’s an album that engages with the history of black culture while challenging the political, cultural, and musical status quos at every turn.
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Feb 24, 2015EarthEE may not have the direct, off-the-cuff quality of AwE NaturalE, but its all-around richness is incontestable.
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UncutFeb 19, 2015EarthEE feels both comfortingly familiar and thrillingly alien, without striving too hard to be either. [Mar 2015, p.83]
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MojoMar 19, 2015Both otherworldly and intensely human, it's hard to resist THEESatisfaction's singular charms. [Apr 2015, p.95]
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Mar 2, 2015Tinged with jazz and various world music, this is aware and absorbing music, conscious in a broad sense, sometimes circuitous, but mostly questioning and satisfying.
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Mar 18, 2015It's a challenging album in both substance and aesthetics, layered and looping sounds colliding with themes of black liberation and environmental justice, all unfolding at a hyper-mellow pace.
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Feb 19, 2015Their debut was already loose enough, but EarthEE slackens to a level of shapelessness, and is gloomier with it to boot.
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