Dirty Gold
by Angel Haze
  • Record Label: Republic
  • Release Date: Dec 30, 2013
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Jan 9, 2014
    90
    Dirty Gold feels like a statement, an arrival.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Jan 10, 2014
    83
    When she's in her comfort zone, Haze proves she's worth the hype. [17 Jan 2014, p.67]
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  3. CMJ
    Jan 13, 2014
    80
    Haze proves that she can write, rap and sing really well.
  5. The Guardian
    Jan 8, 2014
    80
    It's a flawed debut, but it's also a brave and individual one: its best bits are flatly great, its attempt to harness pop-rap to serious topics is a pretty intrepid move.
  6. AllMusic
    Feb 5, 2014
    70
    Dirty Gold is certainly a flawed debut, and yet it's not what's inside that's flawed, it's just the container's inability to hold such OCD-ish genius.
  7. Uncut
    Feb 3, 2014
    70
    Her weakness is the occasional lapse into 12-step blandness on the big--and rather underwritten--choruses. [Mar 2014, p.69]
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  8. musicOMH.com
    Jan 21, 2014
    70
    All in all, Dirty Gold is a solid first major-label album, one that is graced with several moments of brilliance.
  9. Consequence
    Jan 8, 2014
    70
    Dirty Gold is plenty inviting, sonically speaking, with patches of rock, EDM, and pop. It’s problematic, however, that the album zones in on those genres with about as much specificity as those designators have.
  10. The 405
    Jan 23, 2014
    65
    She's played it safe, probably on her label's whim, when really, perilous rule-breakers would have been better suited to her lyrical style.

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User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 35
  3. Negative: 3 out of 35
  1. JORDYZOLANSKI
    Jan 15, 2014
    10
    This album is bursting with inspirational lyrics and great beats. An example is “Angels & Airwaves”, a song about self-harming but also “BlackThis album is bursting with inspirational lyrics and great beats. An example is “Angels & Airwaves”, a song about self-harming but also “Black Dahlia”, a song about Angel’s troublesome relationship with her mother. This album is a must buy and worth a 10/10.… Full Review »
  2. pianoh
    Jan 9, 2014
    10
    where is everyone? angel haze is the bomb. this album is easily one of the greatest hip hop albums to come out in the last many years. i guesswhere is everyone? angel haze is the bomb. this album is easily one of the greatest hip hop albums to come out in the last many years. i guess i'm confused. where is everyone?… Full Review »
  3. Arteezy
    Jan 19, 2014
    7
    Angel Haze has dope lyrics, it's just that I knew her as a rapper but she overdid the singing... There are songs that were well executed...Angel Haze has dope lyrics, it's just that I knew her as a rapper but she overdid the singing... There are songs that were well executed... She has also shown to all the Devil-worshipping rappers that she worships the Lord and she showed it in Rose-Tinted Suicide...… Full Review »
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