- Record Label: 4AD
- Release Date: Jun 12, 2012
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Jun 11, 2012[The album offers] an easy, accessible entry point into this Dark Knight's world.
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Jun 13, 2012If you avoid Mysterious Phonk during the impatient daytime hours, you'll find it impressively dark and uncomfortable.
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Jul 19, 2012He may not have superstar charisma on the mic, but his ability to create an enveloping, dungeon-like sphere of sound practically guarantees you'll be seeing his name pop up on plenty of great releases for years to come.
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Jun 11, 2012It's scattered, without a singular vision, and successful nonetheless.
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Jun 11, 2012His singular sound gives the project a wonderful sense of cohesiveness and gels Purpp's vision together with a maturity beyond his young years.
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Jun 14, 2012An obsession with sex that's rarely heard outside Lil Wayne albums is combined with the woozy sizzurp lilt of A$AP Rocky and his own stunningly sinister devil's whisper delivery to create something remarkably dark and original.
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Jun 13, 2012SGP's ability to create a quarantined universe explains why Mysterious is often absorbing rather than oppressive.
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Jul 20, 2012A plenty addictive listen.
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Jun 11, 2012Like A$AP Mob and Odd Future before him, Purrp arrives fully formed, with his own unique, fully realized aesthetic vision.
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Jun 25, 2012An air of menace and depression hangs over this album, embodied in SpaceGhostPurrp's stream-of-consciousness raps, leaning on sneering boasts and mantralike chants. This single-mindedness can be invigorating.
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Jul 19, 2012Mysterious Phonk feels extremely private in ways that are powerful but not entirely sorted out yet. Purrp finds numerous occasions to talk about smiling in the face of a cold world, but even a facetious smirk never really cracks, and the world is cold in only the most brightly-lit, fantastical, and dystopic ways.
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UncutJul 5, 2012A nifty wordsmith whose drawled delivery complements the menace of his woozy productions. [Aug 2012, p.80]
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Jul 17, 2012There's something about it--the entire album has such a tone you can't help but get sucked into its slowed down world.
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