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Expektoration (Live)
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: The live album contains recordings from the rapper's New York City show on September 24, 2009.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. AllMusic
    70
    Anyone who bought the limited edition of MM..Food? has the video proof, as much of this album is an audio rip of that package's bonus DVD. Redundancy aside, this is a fantastic show fans won't mind revisiting.
  2. RapReviews.com
    70
    This isn't the album to introduce the uninitiated to his unique and often oddball style and flow, but long time fans will appreciate this slice of history as proof that Dumile really does rap his own concerts and doesn't send out impostors under his famed Metal Face.
  3. The A.V. Club
    67
    Nothing on Expektoration trumps the studio versions, but the disc serves as a potent reminder of the depth and richness of DOOM's catalog, while interludes, plus an intermission involving the difficulties of learning Klingon, illustrate DOOM's warped sense of humor.
  4. PopMatters
    60
    In the final analysis, none but the most diehard fan will find this to be a more pleasurable listening experience than any of the excellent studio records he's put out over the past decade. It's not bad, necessarily. It's just inessential.
  5. Pitchfork
    60
    Expektoration is DOOM at his live-show peak, and people who go into this knowing this set's from six years back might feel a bit more charitable. But releasing a concert album with an "Act 1"/"Intermission"/"Act 2" structure instead of a telltale tracklist, and obscuring its actual place in a years-distant history? That's not supervillainy, that's antagonism.
  6. Tiny Mix Tapes
    50
    Expektoration offers a strong tracklist, heavy with fan favorites (opener "Hoe Cakes," "Accordion," "Rhymes Like Dimes") and peppered with rarities ("People Places & Things," "Change the Beat"), but it's not the type of strength you can't feel from going back to the originals.
  7. The Wire
    Dec 22, 2010
    40
    As a prank or a statement, Expekoration is a particularly lazy one. [Dec 2010, p.50]
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  1. KoolMoT
    Aug 21, 2015
    0
    This is two sections of pre-recorded live shows spliced together. The material is old. The only theme is that you might have heard it at aThis is two sections of pre-recorded live shows spliced together. The material is old. The only theme is that you might have heard it at a DOOM show. This is barrel scraping on a scale only Gold Dust / K7 can be bothered to do.… Expand

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