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  • Summary: The Anti-Pop Consortium returns to release their first album together in six years.

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
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  1. All Music Guide
    90
    None of this is going to sell enough records to bother Jay-Z, and a track or two veer too close to MF Doom for comfort, but Fluorescent Black is easily one of the best rap records of the year.
  2. Austin Chronicle
    89
    After almost eight years, APC couldn't jump back in too soon. Every aspect of this disc is delivered with blinding urgency, from the hook of "C Thru U" to the pseudo-prayer delivered toward the end of "Reflections."
  3. Uncut
    60
    Big Dada, Beans, Sayyid, Earl Blaize and High Priest riffle through more fresh ideas in the opening six tracks than contempoary hip hop will in as many months. [Oct 2009, p.91]
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  1. deanc
    10
    Up there with Mos Def's Ecstatic and Willie Isz's Georgiavania as the hip hop album of the year. A sublime hybrid of sounds created to both challenge the listener and make them move.… Expand
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