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Entertainment WeeklyJun 8, 2015It never sounds disjointed, thanks to the powerful adhesive that is Rocky's dangerous charm. [12 Jun 2015, p.74]
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The SourceAug 4, 2015The rock presence is clear, but Rocky's raps are still where he triumphs. [Jun-Jul 2015, p.93]
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Jun 30, 2015There are a few hollow trunk rattlers here.... At.Long.Last.A$AP is no fashion accessory, it’s practically a reinvention.
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UncutJun 24, 2015Dreamy of atmosphere, and often screwed of tempo. [Aug 2015, p.71]
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Jun 4, 2015It’s tempting to see it being one day considered an “essential listen”: compiling and collating the first half of the decade’s tastes, trends, aesthetics and politics into a cohesive and inoffensive whole.
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Jun 4, 2015A raw masterstroke, A.L.L.A. is a depiction of underground millionaire culture that should have "think of the children" conservatives shitting their pants.
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Jun 2, 2015. On At.Long.Last.A$AP., he takes a creative risk and lets the fans reap the rewards.
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Jun 1, 2015Raw, woozy, profoundly psychedelic and often brilliant, Rocky's second studio album is awash with hallucinogenic texture.
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Jun 1, 2015Playground misogyny aside, ALLA is a thrillingly focused follow-up that betrays its anxieties even as it mostly makes do with extolling the virtues of vice.
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Jun 1, 2015A much more risky, expansive and intriguing listen [than Long.Live.A$AP].
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Jun 1, 2015The bold effort unfolds as it wants and deserves.
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May 29, 2015From its length (18 songs, 66 minutes) to its guest list (Kanye West, Rod Stewart, Danger Mouse, Lil Wayne, Yasiin Bey, M.I.A.), the album is as much a large-scale production as his debut was. But it’s done on Rocky’s terms, with every element enhancing the sound that he laid out on his initial mixtape.
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May 29, 2015For all of the sonic pleasures, much of At.Long.Last.ASAP’s narrative is hard to swallow with a thinking mind--which makes it hip-hop at its finest, and its worst.
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May 29, 2015Its focus on breadth is also part of its charm, and although the project is 18 songs deep it does not feel rushed through, but rather lived through.
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May 29, 2015A$AP Rocky has always been an innovator and his creative attempts have always been bold. At.Long.Last.A$AP is no different there.
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May 28, 2015Some might call it retrograde in the year of To Pimp a Butterfly, but rap is big enough to contain multitudes – including self-regard when it’s this perfectly delivered.
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May 28, 2015All things considered, this is a solid album. Fans of old Rocky will be happy to hear he hasn’t left them behind and new fans will have a plethora of options to choose from.
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May 27, 2015It’s unrelentingly hazy, a state of mind as much as a musical approach. Rocky is a more precise and impressive rapper here than he was on his 2013 debut album, returning to the nimble and flexible form he displayed on his earlier mixtape and Internet releases.
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May 27, 2015There is a lot to take in on this big, bold, madly ambitious album, but Rocky has made a frequently dazzling spectacle, another reminder that hip hop is currently setting the bar very high indeed.
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May 29, 2015At long last, a real sense of identity has begun to coalesce in Rocky’s work.
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Jun 30, 2015A$AP's charisma and finesse mostly compensate for his shortcomings as a lyricist. That, combined with the trippy heaviness of Danger Mouse's production, make "A.L.L.A." an album worth spending time with, even dead sober.
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May 29, 2015A.L.L.A flows well from track to track; it’s well sequenced but long at 18 songs and more than an hour.
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Jun 5, 2015While it may not always work out in his favor, the high points here far outweigh the lows, and the takeaway from At.Long.Last.A$AP should be that Rocky is on his way to something even better once he finds his footing.
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May 29, 2015At.Long.Last.A$AP takes the gritty East Coast classicism and syrup-drippin' Houston screwiness of his killer 2013 debut, Long.Live.A$AP, and adds an extra level of psychedelic sprawl via a newfound taste for acid.
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May 29, 2015Clearly, it’s also a druggy album, and the highs are high--noticeably on “L$D,” whose stunning production turns from submerged to soaring, the jiggy “Excuse Me,” and the sexy, aforementioned “Westside Highway,” which has A.L.L.A.’s only hummable hook. Despite those peaks, the overall tone is more despondent.
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Jun 5, 2015As a collected body of work At.Long.Last.A$AP is far from dreadful, but taken as a whole it lacks the elements of depth and star quality that--having set the bar incredibly high with his debut--many expect from A$AP Rocky.
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Jun 4, 2015If there are few lyrical miracles in these scattershot songs obsessed with sex, drugs and shopping, in this intuitive stylist’s mouth the words themselves are often beside the point.
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Jun 1, 2015It’s a clarification--leveraging an assemblage of evocation, of presentation, perhaps of curation, but one that’s built from the fragments of the most beautifully uninteresting bits of what’s contemporary.
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May 29, 2015The strength of A.L.L.A is when Rocky dodges the conventional diss tracks and instead tells his story without any strings attached.
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Jun 11, 2015If Live. Love. A$AP. was the start of Rocky’s trip, then At. Long. Last. A$AP. makes for one hell of a disappointing comedown.
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Jun 11, 2015Even if we were to give ALLA’s abysmal lyrics a pass, the production doesn't help, either.... Still, Rocky can, at times, be an engaging figure that radiates charisma when he wants.
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Jun 5, 2015Akin to scrolling down a Tumblr dashboard, A.L.L.A as a whole lacks coherence but features some impressive displays of aestheticism.
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May 29, 2015At.Long.Last.A$AP is an unfocused, overlong slog of an album.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 277 out of 302
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Mixed: 14 out of 302
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Negative: 11 out of 302
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