Worldwide Underground
- Erykah Badu
- Band Name: Erykah Badu
- Record Label: Motown
- Release Date: Sep 16, 2003
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90An astonishing album... a nu soul master that should ride high on any 21st century 'best of' lists. [Dec 2003, p.109]
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Most of this succeeds. [19 Sep 2003, p.86]
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80This time around, she and her collaborators have also figured out how to blow away the incense without losing her mystique.
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80For the first time in her career, Badu is wearing her own voice.
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Although sometimes her reliance on mood threatens to get the better of Worldwide Underground, Badu remains faithful to the old school of flow, a blend of drums and rhythm designed to service soul's best instruments: its vocalists.
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May 27, 201175At times sprawling and eccentric enough to have her schooling a fictional audience on the flute-accented "Woo," this melding of old-school funk, jazzy instrumentation and dancey bleeps nevertheless flows well.
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70Frequently intoxicating. [Jan 2004, p.103]
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As easy as the disc is to slide into, it's far and away the least commercial R&B release of the year.
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70Some songs are just completely uninspired.... There are definitive highlights on Underground, however, that make this collection essential. [Nov 2003, p.147]
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67Badu keeps the proceedings here buoyant and relaxed with that supple-lipped scat of hers, stretching out scant syllables at her lounging, loopy leisure.
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The sad fact is that this rarely makes good on the promise of 2000’s masterful Mama’s Gun.
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60There's rambling, digital fiddling and self-indulgent sprawl here, but a sense of purpose, too, even as her lips move on autopilot. [#20, p.114]
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40There's nothing unlistenable... but nothing hugely inspiring, either. [Dec 2003, p.120]
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Erykah Badu still hasn't found her way through the haze.
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