by
Quasimoto
- Record Label: Stones Throw
- Release Date: May 3, 2005
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 30 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 30
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Mixed: 1 out of 30
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Negative: 2 out of 30
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TAOct 24, 2006Takes a couple of listens to get into it but well worth the little effort to do so. BRILLIANT
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[Anonymous]Oct 3, 2006This album makes The Unseen feel mainstream, to bad there arn't more jazz samples, that was what made Unseen so great, anways it definatly worth the money and a great great album
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JeffLJun 15, 2006I expected a weaker safer album following the unseen, but instead found a bolder more risky album that's simply fantastic.
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SimonNov 2, 2005Initially it seems overproduced and too layered. Reveals itself after repeated listenings. I had to go back to it a month after I initially got the album to actually enjoy it. Worth the work.
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salomeySep 18, 2005i love this album. perhaps it actually helps me that i have the attention span of a peanut, but this album keeps me entertained for over an hour and i already tend to dislike when an album crosses the 50 minute mark. superior production. insanely entertaining
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mattaJul 27, 2005
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TonyHJul 9, 2005The greatest album I've ever heard. NME is clearly lamer than I could imagine. Madlib is the MAN!!!
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BaahirKJun 7, 2005This is the true manifestation of what hip hop is!!!!!!!
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ArniSMay 31, 2005This is the best hip hop album in years. Madlib is the most creative man on earth right now and anything he touches just seems to turn to gold. On this album he uses soft fusion music from bands such as Weather Report and turns the into this incredible groove like you've never heard before. Bartender talk just blows your mind, as do so many other tracks on this album.
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BretronMay 21, 2005Ill Loop Digga' in true form. Madlib is today's Lee Perry/ Herbie Hancock. A true scientist of sound...
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CosmosKingMay 20, 2005pretty good album! nice concept! Creativity is second to none! the raps are pretty gud but not the best! it gets 10 for concept 9 for music vibes 10-for consistency 8.5 for lyrics! well its somewhere between 9.0-9.5. overall its a pretty dope album but its definately not better than madvillainy.
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j-olMay 17, 2005peerless
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rikrMay 17, 2005Dope shit man.....there's all kinds of things you need to listen between the lines to actually hear......eg. why does the track bus ride keep breaking up with old willies cries? It's cuz he's on a bus ride......bus' stop and go......ingenious......madlib is the man......buy this album
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vincentxMay 16, 2005I don't really care much for hiphop, but i like to make exceptions. excellent album!
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LamonteFMay 15, 2005Almost as good as The Unseen.
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jackgMay 12, 2005wow, just wow... if you liked madvillain... the is 10x better
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johnMay 12, 2005album of the year
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If Madlib were somehow to commandeer a time machine, kidnap Sly & The Family Stone, Prince Paul, The Firesign Theater, Melvin Van Peebles, Redd Foxx, Negativland, and The Last Poets, lock them in a studio together on Haight Ashbury during the Summer Of Love with Hunter S. Thompson's drug supply, then force them to record an album together, the result might sound a little like The Further Adventures of Lord Quas.
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Madlib has formed a tighter frame around his productions than ever before.
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What's beyond doubt is the magical blend of the surreal and the fantastical that made 'The Unseen' so memorable is once again in the fullest effect on this showcase of fearlessly skewed production, dense organic vibes and hemp & helium-fuelled raps that make up this smoked-out saunter through the back streets of the cosmo-according-to-Lord Quas.