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  • Summary: This is the second full-length album for the hip-hop producer.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Aug 5, 2011
    73
    Each one is solid, and some of the vocal samples allow him to showcase the stilted sort of sense of humor that's constantly on display in his Twitter feed.
  2. Aug 8, 2011
    70
    The result is a woozily involving mood piece that encompasses everything from the shimmering heat of daytime ('Lifesized Stuffed Animal', where music box chimes rub up against disoriented square wave bass) to the dead of night, caught in the lairy drunken lurch of 'Kitties'.
  3. Jul 29, 2011
    70
    Baker pretty much only has one idea, and although it's solid, he could benefit from a shift in approach.
  4. The Wire
    Aug 12, 2011
    70
    Baker's style is physical, thick, dense: woozy bass, murky keys and drums that kick hard enough to stir up dust and gleam in the dim light coming in through the basement windows. [Jun 2011, p.60]
  5. Jul 29, 2011
    63
    It's "Sam Baker's album" by name and ownership, but it's also another beat tape in a very crowded field, one where it's easy to get lost amidst the increasingly innovative producers working now.
  6. Jul 29, 2011
    60
    All in all, most every cut on Sam Baker's Album is solid in its own right, but maybe 40 minutes is just too much, considering that the lines which box in the instrumental hip-hop genre become only more clear as the album pushes on.
  7. Uncut
    Aug 3, 2011
    60
    It sounds more like sketchbook of snippets rather than fully formed tracks. Even so, it still tickles the pleasure zones with its goodtime swing and verve. [Aug 2011, p98]

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