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Feb 17, 2015Sour Soul is sublime. Rather than standing around starstruck, BBNG have more than proven their worth as Ghostface’s backing band.
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Mar 20, 2015Call it experimental muzak, call it cultured post-bop fueled by the internet. Either way, it’s interesting to hear Ghostface sink so smoothly into their rhythms.
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Feb 24, 2015Sour Soul is an evening album, like all good jazz albums should be. The kind you turn on over lamplight or bump on your headphones.
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Feb 23, 2015On the impressive Sour Soul, the Canadian trio that built its profile through Odd Future and Gucci Mane covers bangs out rich blaxploitation-invoking live instrumentals, providing a perfect canvas for the Wu-Tang Clan vet's vivid rhymes about dodging police, jewelry and, oddly enough, yoga.
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The Independent (UK)Feb 23, 2015Wu-Tang's most reliable rhymer here hooks up with Toronto hip-hop jazz trio Badbadnotgood, whose vibes, piano and grooves, augmented occasionally with strings, drape a 1970s symphonic-soul sound around his street missives. [21 Feb 2015, p.18]
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Feb 23, 2015One of this even more classy album’s appeals is the juxtaposition between the elegance of the music and the grimness of the rhymes.
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Q MagazineFeb 17, 2015The Canadians [Badbadnotgood] deliver in spades.... Even when Ghostface doesn't bring his A game, he gets by with a little help from his friends. [Mar 2015, p.108]
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MojoFeb 13, 2015A vivid, pulsing rhyme banquet that's out-there, edgy and kaleidoscopic. [Mar 2014, p.96]
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Feb 13, 2015With everybody involved sharp and on point, Sour Soul is a contemporary classic.
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UncutFeb 13, 2015The trio [Badbadnotgood] create nuanced, immersive contexts for the rapper's narratives: occasionally dialed in, at times surprising. [Mar 2015, p.71]
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Mar 18, 2015Sour Soul eschews the Tony Starks comic book concept narrative of the past two efforts in favor of some good old-fashioned coke rap and braggadocio.
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Feb 18, 2015The manner in which they've appropriated and recreated the early Wu-Tang vibe is practically Tarantino-esque. It may be a knockoff, but it's one of the most fun Wu-affiliated records of the past decade.
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Mar 10, 2015Sour Soul isn't the best album in Ghostface's discography, but it is a fine effort.
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Feb 25, 2015The inclusion of a small handful of featured emcees spices up the pot appropriately and where and when they cook are choiced well.
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Feb 24, 2015In James Bond terms, Sour Soul is the almost addendum-ish Quantum of Solace as it offers adventurous fans the same opportunities for a quick fix while sacrificing a bit of weight. In Toronto jazz terms, it's verygoodgoodnotbad.
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Feb 23, 2015Sour Soul doesn’t quite push any boundaries, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter, because even if there was potential for it to be so much more, it still just about ticks the right boxes.
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Feb 13, 2015Attempts at the rapper-live band album are risky, and while it has some qualifiers, this one has to be counted as a success. It’d be a wild success, though, if the instrumental half of this collaboration were to take a truly equal share of the spotlight.
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Feb 17, 2015Both the scant material and under-inspired lyricism are symptoms of the same problem: a dearth of unexpected ideas from an MC once seemingly capable of endless ones. Ghost’s done worse, but he used to be so excitingly unpredictable. Now you pretty much know what you’re going to get.
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Positive: 55 out of 65
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Mixed: 5 out of 65
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Negative: 5 out of 65
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