Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints
by RP Boo
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Resident Advisor
    Jul 8, 2015
    86
    This new LP is understated by comparison, with fewer jarring moments and more shifting grooves.
  2. Pitchfork
    Jul 7, 2015
    80
    Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints is a nice reminder that footwork's version of classic rock still overflows with bizarre juxtapositions and high-wire pileups.
  3. Mojo
    Jul 6, 2015
    80
    This "new" RP Boo set feels like a deeper, warmer work. [Aug 2015, p.98]
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  5. Spin
    Jul 6, 2015
    80
    These tracks don’t bear the outward signs of mourning of Rashad’s release, but at their heart there’s a sort of solitude that only occasionally makes its way onto the dance floor.
  6. The Quietus
    Jul 1, 2015
    80
    [Fingers is] fifteen tricksy, itchy, endlessly inventive footwork belters, which do little more than uphold the finest tenets of the genre, and are perfectly laudable for that.
  7. The Guardian
    Jul 1, 2015
    80
    Typical of a producer who makes music for battling, there’s more swagger than a pair of John Wayne’s chaps.
  8. AllMusic
    Jul 27, 2015
    70
    Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints is another thrilling, occasionally confounding collection that demonstrates why RP Boo is one of Chicago's most unique, innovative producers.
  9. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Jul 2, 2015
    70
    It’s a dedicated focus on the materials that compel bodies and minds into motion that make RP Boo a continuously shining light in the ever-growing discourse he helped invent.
  10. Clash Music
    Jul 1, 2015
    70
    Across its 14 tracks, Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints twitches with endless inventiveness and energy, finding Boo tinkering with vocal snatches as frequently as he skews the beats into ever-more queasily unusual formations, drawing from soul, soundtracks and classic dance music along the way.
  11. PopMatters
    Jul 1, 2015
    70
    Fingers, Bank Pads, and Shoe Prints is a much harsher, more trying listen, but well worth the effort, at least as a frame of reference.
  12. Uncut
    Jul 28, 2015
    60
    Challenging, sure--but when it comes together, as on Kenny Loggins-sampling "Your Choice," exhilarating also. [Sep 2015, p.80]
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  13. PopMatters
    Jul 8, 2015
    60
    Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints can get predictable at times, RP Boo’s comfort zone of vocal sample, rattling percussion and synth interludes becomes obvious by about four tracks in.

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