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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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The WireMay 15, 2015Its feel is psychedelic but strong. [Apr 2015, p.60]
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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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Q MagazineFeb 25, 2015EarthEE finds that magic spot where the feet are grounded but the head's floating on a cloud. [Apr 2015, p.111]
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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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Feb 23, 2015There are few artists who are as artistically uncompromising, and while EarthEE may not garner the duo many new fans, its quality will ensure it outlives the kind of transient hype they might have shot for.
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Feb 19, 2015EarthEE is not an album you can listen to passively. It demands engagement, demands you to meet it on its terms sonically and politically. The returns for that investment, and the paths it can open up, are many.
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Feb 19, 2015Despite the undercurrent of anger and frustration in some songs, the album is rich with the triumph of black womanhood. The overall result feels positive.
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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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Feb 19, 2015You can hear Badu’s influence across EarthEE, which flows as freely as its predecessor, but is more sonically detailed and rich.
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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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Feb 25, 2015EarthEE makes one think more than feel.
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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, 2015It has too much surface ambiance to demand your attention--it’s a pleasant background album--but it welcomes and rewards it.
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Feb 23, 2015It doesn’t necessarily stay in your head all day but when the drawling rhymes cut in there is attitude and thought provocation in buckets.
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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.