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Oct 17, 2013Carve out the ultimate party EP, or consider the highlights too high to miss, because this is Dizzee at his breeziest and is best taken in little bits.
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Q MagazineOct 16, 2013The Fifth sounds like half a dozen different [albums] squashed onto one record. Not good. [Nov 2013, p.115]
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Oct 15, 2013Not so much a victim of his own success, but an unwillingness to take risks in the name of music.
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Oct 4, 2013The list of guest stars includes Jessie J, Robbie Williams and will.i.am, and the album is as overproduced as those names suggest. Worse still, on The Fifth Dizzee Rascal succumbs to the worst stereotypes of rap music.
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Oct 3, 2013As his flow goes off at a regular double time that his chart-scaling peers can only dislocate their jaws for, Dizzee’s personality shrinks into a tediously shallow pool of female ogling, obeying your thirst and his latest holiday snaps.
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Oct 2, 2013The Fifth sees Dizzee dropping his aitches between generic, anthemic, autotuned American choruses.
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Oct 2, 2013Generally though, The Fifth‘s “dance” tracks--‘Bassline Junkie’, ‘Something Really Bad’, et al--just seem too limp to succeed as radio hits, and they’re certainly not good or interesting songs in any other capacity.
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MojoOct 1, 2013Mills' slightest work by some distance, The Fifth is evolution in reverse. [Oct 2013, p.88]
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Oct 1, 2013If only the rest of the album was as inventive [as 'Spend Some Money'], instead of a derivative box-ticking exercise that features Dizzee going on about his "willy" a lot.
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Oct 1, 2013It isn't art, but it is a hit-packed, goofy album that may prove impossible to dislike.
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Oct 1, 2013The fairly routine nature of the backing tracks means that The Fifth lacks some of the distinctive berserker spirit that characterised its predecessors.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 31
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Mixed: 2 out of 31
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Negative: 23 out of 31
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