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Where Subtle use many words to convey many things, I will use one: perfection.
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Intelligent, melodic, poetic and funny, so this is what Now sounds like eh?
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Dose’s clever, rich, image-gorged writing is at that forefront more than ever, and, mercy, does he ever slam down the goods.
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Even more than their last record, the fine A New White, For Hero: For Fool is a wonderfully sprawling mess.
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Alternative PressThe sextet take glitchy electronics, nerdy psychedelic rock and various forms of hip-hop to create a completely over-the-top concept album--and it works perfectly. [Dec 2006, p.208]
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For Hero: For Fool is a complete work from artists working at the top of their game.
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The chemistry has changed, the music is harder, the frustration's more palable, and you can hear that this is some kind of a make-or-break moment. And this time they made it-- just.
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UrbIt'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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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.
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Bewildered newcomers will soon be entranced, old fans won't be disappointed.
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UncutRunning over with ideas. [Nov 2006, p.128]
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Small problems aside, For Hero: For Fool is a worthwhile album.
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Q MagazineAbsorbing. [Jan 2007, p.153]
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SpinSubtle... 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]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 37
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Mixed: 1 out of 37
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Negative: 3 out of 37
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JustinB.Sep 21, 2007This is a true 10. what an album, it seems like it was overlooked by many.
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Mr.HankeyApr 3, 2007The greatest album of 2006. A beautiful extravaganza of rap, rock, and electronica. Not many albums are as dark and loud as this.
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DtrainH.Apr 2, 2007