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For Hero: For Fool
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Metascore
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Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 37 Ratings

  • Summary: The anticon crew that includes Doseone--and, fortunately, the nearly-killed Dax Pierson--makes the jump to a more major label (EMI/Astralwerks) for the first time.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Drowned In Sound
    100
    Where Subtle use many words to convey many things, I will use one: perfection.
  2. Playlouder
    100
    Intelligent, melodic, poetic and funny, so this is what Now sounds like eh?
  3. cokemachineglow
    90
    Dose’s clever, rich, image-gorged writing is at that forefront more than ever, and, mercy, does he ever slam down the goods.
  4. BBC collective
    80
    Bewildered newcomers will soon be entranced, old fans won't be disappointed.
  5. Urb
    80
    It's almost like Subtle, as a collective, is afraid of letting loose or having too much fun. [Oct 2006, p.130]
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  6. AllMusic
    80
    Part experimental rock, part electronica, and part hip-hop, Subtle's For Hero: For Fool is a complex, innovative, sometimes bizarre, and usually utterly confusing journey into the minds of lyricist Doseone and his five bandmates.
  7. Spin
    60
    Subtle... build their hybrid from a quarter century of pop and college radio, then animate it with a megawatt jolt of race/class anxiety. [Dec 2006, p.100]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 25
  3. Negative: 1 out of 25
  1. NXO
    Oct 6, 2006
    10
    Best hip hop album of the year
  2. JustinB.
    Sep 21, 2007
    10
    This is a true 10. what an album, it seems like it was overlooked by many.
  4. BrianF
    Oct 12, 2006
    10
    Nothing short of brilliant. This record has more of a hip hop feel then past subtle releases. The music is textured and creates a musical Nothing short of brilliant. This record has more of a hip hop feel then past subtle releases. The music is textured and creates a musical landscape that takes several listens to fully appreciate. I LOVE this album. I have been listening to it over and over again on my ipod all week.… Expand
  5. TC
    Nov 6, 2006
    10
    For me this is the album of the year. I even heard it today in my hairdressers. They normally play albums by pop Brit guitar bands. It For me this is the album of the year. I even heard it today in my hairdressers. They normally play albums by pop Brit guitar bands. It didn't sound so out of place, Not as much as you'd have thought, The hairdresser said he just thought it was like Outkast. He hadn't heard of Clouddead or Themselves and had bought it off the back of a newspaper review... For me this was a really unexpected highlight of the year. Massive electro pop rap like The Mercury Craze and a complete monster outro that rivals B Boy Bouillabaisse.… Expand
  6. JonathanM
    Dec 2, 2006
    10
    This is an amazing record. "Nomanisisland," in particular... WOW.
  7. MichaelC
    Dec 31, 2006
    9
    This is a very good album, I took it all in on the first listen, every time I thought about skipping a track, it started somthing lush and This is a very good album, I took it all in on the first listen, every time I thought about skipping a track, it started somthing lush and beutiful and made me want to listen more. My one complaint it the end of the album is a bit to ambitious, and is a bit unfocused, but this is based on the first listen, who knows what cool stuff i'll discover with some repeated listens.… Expand
  8. JuiceM
    Nov 11, 2006
    0
    This must be a joke...this may be the biggest joke in music history, My 2-year old daughter would slaughter these guys with her dope ass This must be a joke...this may be the biggest joke in music history, My 2-year old daughter would slaughter these guys with her dope ass crazy don't mean anything lyrics...you get what I'm saying??… Expand

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