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- Summary: The British artist's debut album was one of the nominees for the 2007 Mercury Prize.
- Record Label: Caroline
- Genre(s): Rap
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 19
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Mixed: 6 out of 19
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Negative: 2 out of 19
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Experimental yet poppy, awkward yet unforced, Panic Prevention is a minor masterpiece from a truly bar-raising new talent.
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Panic Prevention is no classic, but a wonderful testament to intuition, which boisterously, and rightfully, posits Jamie T in that rare class of pioneering artist, one who has created a piece of work to stand with any of the other notable records released so far this year.
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A cheeky, delirious romp that's rife with humor and originality, this debut channels the euphoric sound of an underdog finding his voice and gaining his glory.
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Fact is, though, the best metropolitan records are part gutter reality, part romantic fantasy, and so it goes with Panic Prevention.
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What Treays has in abundance, and what Allsopp lacks, is original ideas and memorable hooks.
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Panic Prevention isn't much better than its best three or four songs, and it's due to Jamie T.'s stubborn insistence on being understood only by himself, or perhaps a precious few in his coterie.
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The little things are annoying, of course, like the “that'll do” pointless pop culture punnery namedrops that litter (“Starz in Their Eyes”/”Alicia Quays”), or the way they take up so much time with vocal samples from (old documentaries/self-help tapes) in the same way that a struggling student quotes increasingly large and irrelevant passages of text in a desperate attempt to meet a word count.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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MikeDec 23, 2007This album is fantastic, one of the best of the year. So much fun to listen to and so varied. Not sure why it is only a 71.
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WillCDec 17, 2007Wildly inventive pop genius. Jamie T is a legend.
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KomradAAug 11, 2009
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