Selling Live Water - Sole
  • Band Name: Sole
  • Record Label: Anticon
  • Release Date: Jan 21, 2003
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Metascore
77 out of 100

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9.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

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  • Summary: This is the latest challenging release for Sole, one of the founders of the anticon collective of underground hip-hop artists.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Dusted Magazine
    100
    Bottle of Humans was an amazing album, immediately hailed as a classic. Selling Live Water improves upon that album in every identifiable category.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    80
    The production is progressive, but not difficult; the mixture of sampled melodies and live instrumentation gives the whole record a submarine clarity and (as with many Anticon releases) the more listens the listener gives, the more content the album returns.
  3. Uncut
    80
    A worthy West Coast counterpart to El-P's superb Fantastic Damage. [Apr 2003, p.108]
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  4. All Music Guide
    50
    Selling Live Water follows the Anticon party line (double-timed, singsongy half-sensical ramblings countering slow, lumbering beats) through to conscious hip-hop's most logical dead end.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. chris
    10
    Is this guy white because I thought he was Black that is what I heard. What I also heard was this was a masterpiece with sick beats and even Fresher lyrics. This was one of the best from 03.… Expand
  2. TheIncredibleHullks
    9
    Anticon are the only label that can compete with the Def Jukies at the moment. Sole and Murs are trading blows on my box at the moment and honours are even. Strictly Hip Hop.… Expand

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