- Record Label: Macklemore
- Release Date: Feb 26, 2016
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Mar 4, 2016The album isn’t necessarily a classic, or better than The Heist, but it does prove Macklemore is here to stay.
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Feb 25, 2016The bookends are tracks that aim to be masterworks and fall just one step short, but everything in between is delightful, stunning, or both, making the album's title less than one-tenth apt, and Macklemore & Lewis both emo under-promisers and Grammy-worthy over-deliverers.
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Mar 3, 2016The title harbors on his crash-landed placement in the mainstream where he simply wants to co-exist while the music, albeit a times disjointed, makes up one of the most self-aware, socially conscious rap albums in recent memory, if not ever.
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Mar 15, 2016Despite some lyrical flaws here and there, it still shines.
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Mar 3, 2016Four years later, with This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, he’s dropped the album that Kanye haters wanted Kanye to make.
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Feb 26, 2016While Macklemore wants to provoke thought, the album’s real strengths are its mindlessly amusing tracks.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 87 out of 153
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Mixed: 32 out of 153
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Negative: 34 out of 153
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