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- Artist(s): Nick Sylvester, Shamir Bailey
- Summary: The debut full-length release for the Las Vegas dance-pop artist was produced by Nick Sylvester.
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- Record Label: XL
- Genre(s): Electronic, Rap, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Club/Dance, Alternative Dance, Alternative Rap
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On the Regular | |
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Hi, hi, howdy, howdy, hi, hi While everyone is minus, you can call me multiply Just so you know, yes, yes, I'm that guy You could get five fingers... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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May 20, 2015Ratchet is one of the most purely pleasurable records I’ve heard so far this year, and one of the strongest debuts in several years.
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May 19, 2015Ratchet refines the rawness of the EP only slightly, its punky minimalism echoing some of the outsider edginess evinced by early '90s house innovators such as Green Velvet.
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May 18, 2015Ratchet is a fully realized, entertaining portrait of an artist who knows where he's from and where he's going.
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May 15, 2015Shamir is unquestionably the star, but the interplay between artist and producer is palpable; it’s a musical match made in heaven (or, perhaps, hell: Sylvester has likened his role to the relationship between the poet Virgil and his protagonist Dante), and the finest moments here have Sylvester providing the trampoline for Shamir to bounce on.
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May 19, 2015n album of movement that reaches toward the sublime.... Ratchet meanders a bit near the end, but its haze also mirrors the slow awakening that marks the end of a night spent reaching for dance-floor ecstasy.
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Q MagazineMay 29, 2015Mostly this debut sidesteps the freakish in favour of pop immediacy. [Jul 2015, p.113]
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UncutMay 15, 2015This one needed longer in the incubator. [Jun 2015, p.81]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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May 27, 2015
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