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Jun 20, 2012It's a running dialogue with stylistic annotations, and it combines with Pemberton's fantastic wordplay to make for a compelling musical product.
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Jun 1, 2012The result is a smoother, more mature sound that varies with each song evoking hints of soul, funk, old-school hip-hop and some dance music for fun.
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May 29, 2012As a genre that's saturated with trends, micro-trends, and anti-trends, it's rare to find someone doing something that makes a legitimate claim at being totally unique.
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May 29, 2012Another solid and easy to recommend effort in a discography that already has a couple.
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May 29, 2012Hope In Dirt City is the most soulful and hazy he's ever sounded.
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May 29, 2012Hope is brought together by Pemberton's distinct vocal style and lyrics, which perfectly capture the disaffected, post-millennial, iPod-DJ, over-tweeted, quarter-life-crisis condition.