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Feb 2, 2012Turns out Odd Future benefits greatly from this duo anchoring their wild universe, as Purple Naked Ladies is one of the collective's more sensual and sensible releases to date.
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Jan 31, 2012The most disappointing aspect about Syd Tha Kid's delivery is her inability to create a remotely compelling protagonist - something Odd Future members have proved themselves more than capable of doing.
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Feb 1, 2012Syd's uninterest in the topic on the dreary, sporadically interesting Purple Naked Ladies is disappointing, if not unforgivable.
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Dec 20, 2011When you boil it down, Purple Naked Ladies' biggest fault is that it's generic.
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Feb 10, 2012An extremely promising debut.
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Jan 13, 2012The album's biggest hindrance is a lack of ruthlessness at crucial moments, eschewing cohesion for broad-stroke stabs at too many genres.
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Dec 20, 2011Syd the Kyd mostly drifts through the music, and is more compelling when getting into trouble--as on Cocaine and Fastlane--rather than lamenting love lost.
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Jan 4, 2012Like many spinoffs from the Odd Future machine, it's a small piece of a larger puzzle, useful for obsessives concerned with keeping their catalogs up to date.
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Feb 14, 2012When the Internet do short and romantic, their songs are tight and purposeful. Other stylistic excursions don't work out as well.
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Jan 12, 2012Ladies is a strong debut and, overall, it presents a pretty unique environment to get lost in.
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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2012The Internet still feels like an important first step, not only for its willingness to test the limits of current hip hop/R&B, but as proof that Odd Future is more than just a one-man show. [Mar 2012, p.108]
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Jun 26, 2012The problem is that it's just too light on hip-hop, and too close to the other experimental work they've already done in other side projects.
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Jan 31, 2012An endearingly scattershot take on spaced-out R&B, complete with drug fetishism and a load of moves apparently copped from the Neptunes.
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Dec 19, 2011This slippery debut from Odd Future's Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians embarks on a journey into Twilight Zone pop, with a lovelorn story arc that transitions from giddy crushing to it's-over melancholia.
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Dec 22, 2011Any halfway interesting endeavor is either quickly discarded or frustratingly bereft of further exploration and expansion.
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Dec 20, 2011Without that blessed cohesion that is the groove, Purple Naked Ladies is an alternately jaggy and listless dream, rather than the narcotic romp it is meant to be.
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Feb 2, 2012Thrilling and original. It's a dense but shifting mist of sound: snatches of vocals, meandering electric piano and guitar figures, synthesisers that move from enveloping warmth to jangling out of tune, topped off with Bennett's sweetly understated voice... [Yet] for all its flashes of brilliance, it sounds more like a free download.
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Jan 4, 2012While the production is woozy, stop-start delirious and off kilter, the lyrics, sung by Syd in an appealing, unpolished style, are cutting.
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Jan 17, 2012This sprawling effort could sorely use some tightening up.
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Jan 26, 2012Most of the songs flatline – ambient, rambling soundscapes that are largely indistinguishable...It's no coincidence that the briefest songs, when Syd really gets down and makes her personality felt, are also some of the best.
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The WireFeb 17, 2012There is a resounding thinness to Purple Naked Ladies and its finest moments sound like a collection of scratch tracks from a lost Erykah Badu/Neptunes session circa 1998. [Mar 2012, p.54]
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