- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Release Date: Mar 19, 2002
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A winning combination of hip-hop beats, horns, strings and cinematic soundscapes, the album is spiced with precise scratching and effectively abrupt changes in direction.
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Colossal and cinematic, the fourth record from the Herbaliser is a timely achievement in music, a genre-bending statement of creative poignancy.
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Alternative PressGrooves with uptight downtown funk that's not just for beat freaks. [May 2002, p.88]
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MojoOne of the most cerebral-yet-groovy hip hop albums you'll hear. [Apr 2002, p.104]
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Herbaliser is heavily influenced by American jazz and funk -- and those influences infuse the tracks on their fourth release, Something Wicked This Way Comes with a freshness that hip-hop needs desperately.
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This will be one of the best things you'll hear all year.
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There are tough, commanding rare grooves, fly spy-thriller tracks, big, daft hip-hop tunes, a brilliant lounge-reggae skank, 'Good Girl Gone Bad', and, in 'The Turnaround', and the 'Apache'-like b-boy break-out, 'Battle Of Bongo Hill', two of the funkiest, party starters you'll hear all year.
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The beats are just fine, but they lack the risk or innovation that could potentially make them truly engaging.
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MixerSome cuts get too enamored with their own groove to acutally go anywhere. [Apr 2002, p.77]
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The WirePoorly sequenced instrumental epics and rap cuts leave Something Wicked sounding disjointed. [#217, p.56]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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TonyF.Jun 7, 2002