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- Summary: The underground rapper/poet returns with his second album for Epitaph, joined by guests Buck 65, Jolie Holland and Mark Isham.
- Record Label: Epitaph
- Genre(s): Indie, Rap
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 4 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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Alternative PressHe rhymes like a champ. [Jun 2007, p.160]
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FilterYou can call it emo or you can call it hip-hop, but you have to call it some kind of wonderful. [#25, p.94]
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The weird, nuanced Rhode Island-based MC burns his references, punchlines and cold truths through a batch of X-acto-sharp beats, focusing his strong opinions, sense of imagery and lyrical abstraction inward.
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He's still one of the most enjoyable lyricists in hip-hop, and he successfully communicates what he's feeling in a dark and enlightening fashion.
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BillboardMuch of "Human the Death Dance" goes for something deeper—the sound of an artist afraid of what he almost became. [12 May 2007]
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As a primer, a first Sage Francis purchase, it’s fine; in light of his previous achievements, less so.
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SpinHe falls into mawkishness far too often. [Jun 2007, p.93]
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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[Anonymous]May 14, 2007great album by Sage. No one does it better than him!
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JamieAMay 8, 2007Freakin amazing..ingenious some of the most intelligent writing since Roger Waters.
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RichardHMay 10, 2007
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BillJul 31, 2007
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KennyM.Aug 1, 2007
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