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90You may say, with all its funky breaks and organ spells, that The Mix-Up is the last album you'd expect the Beastie Boys to make; but really, it could've been the first.
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80The Mix-Up is the best record collection ever thoroughly digested and re-imagined by a bunch of guys in love with sound.
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80Maybe The Mix-Up woks simply because it does nothing terribily wrong.
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A satisfyingly uneven, agreeably overreaching hodgepodge of sounds and styles a la Hello Nasty or Ill Communication.
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The Mix Up is not a major statement, but that's the nice thing about the record: it's as personal and idiosyncratic as any old funky soul-jazz LP that you'd find deep in the crates of a second-hand record store.
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The Mix-Up doesn't present anything innovative, nor is it any sort of triumphant career coda; it just sounds good.
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The Mix-Up may not be the cure for 2004's disappointing "To the 5 Boroughs," but it grooves nicely in the meantime. [Summer 2007, p.79]
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The Beasties could have knocked out all twelve jams in a lazy weekend in 1992, 2007 or anywhere in between.
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60"The Mix-Up" is thematically sound and feels like a comprehensive piece instead of a self-indulgent scheme. [30 Jun 2007]
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Low-fi, hazy and lightweight.
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"The Mix-Up" is all about groove and texture, sometimes at the expense of hooks.
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60There's very little about The Mix-Up not to like, yet there's also very little that will be remembered in five months.
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Who'd have guessed that a Beastie Boys record could be too subtle?
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It's purely incidental material that goes nowhere for a dozen tracks and ends with just as much fuss as it began, i.e. none.
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50It's the sound of a group treading water. [Jul 2007, p.110]
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50It's slight and, even at its liveliest, inconsequential. [Jul 2007, p.92]
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For an album that truly has nothing to say and risks suggesting nothing more need be said, The Mix-Up sounds merely satisfactory now, but I can't wait until some turntablist uses it to drop the science.
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Tossed-off, underdone, monotonous, unfinished, and redundant maybe, but not bad.
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46There's a distinct lack of fun in the instrumental wankage of The Mix-Up, a bad sign for a band that has seen their results fade in direct proportion to how seriously they take themselves.
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There's 100 reasons to worship the Beastie Boys. But, plugging in a wah-wah pedal and writing an album of indulgent jazz-funk instrumentals is certainly not one of them.
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40The Beasties have neither the musical chops nor the compositional skill... to hold listeners' interest for the length of an album.
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For fans only.
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