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For his second solo studio record, the Quannum Projects godfather veers left from his sample-centric background and into something that should be highly pleasing to anyone who enjoyed hip-hop in 1988.
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The album truly is everywhere at once, and for that it at least deserves a taste.
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He’s still expanding his vocal range, but this hour of soulful, sugary funk will accompany your summer parties quite well.
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Everywhere at Once is an improvement over his debut from start to finish.
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Like Big Boi and Andre 3000, Lyrics Born is on a mission to expand the boundaries of the genre. He doesn't always succeed, and the result is an album that is a little inconsistent, but it is damn good more often than not.
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But with only two weak tracks and some deletable skits outweighed by a dozen good-to-great cuts, Everywhere at Once is one of the best albums to come from a Solesides alumnus in a long time.
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Like any party, it loses steam toward the end, but it's worth attending for at least a while.
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So here we are, with the record Shimura smartly did not title Same Shit, Five Years Later…, because that would've made it slightly easier to tell he's stuck in his own brain.
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Alternative PressIt's a fun album, full of off-kilter, electro-tinged grooves. Trouble is, backpacker/conscious/positive hip-hop is every bit as cliched as the most unthinking gangsta rap. [Apr 2008, p.163]
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FilterWhile the record does nothing to offend listeners, it's excessively broad and does little to dramatically impress. [Winter 2008, p.94]
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UrbEverywhere At Once, LB's Anti-debut, is also a practice in nostalgia--but it's decidedly more me-centric in execution. [Mar/Apr 2008, p.109]
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SpinThe result is less an uncommonly danceable indie-rap disc than it is an uncommonly thoughtful groove album. [May 2008, p.100]
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There are many moments here when the good times roll effectively enough, but rarely as well as past Born efforts.
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Q MagazineThis slick set taps the same pop bounce of 2004's "Calling Out."
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Under The RadarLyrics Born is capable of a game-changing album, but Everywhere At Once seems like a step backwards. [Spring 2008, p.85]
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Everywhere at Once is reminiscent of what's already been done, either by the rapper himself or by another artist, almost derivative of itself, and as a whole, altogether disappointing.
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Truly hyph-lite, LP four, Everywhere at Once, drops more fizzle than pop over a rote canvas of 1980s B-boy stance and 'Hott 2 Deff' breaks.