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Q MagazineOct 24, 2017The sound of an artistic slump coming to an end. [Dec 2017, p.107]
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Oct 19, 2017Freed from the obligations a full album would have entailed, Wu-Tang are free to make their best music in over ten years.
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Oct 18, 2017The Saga Continues is not the home run that Wu-Tang Clan fans have been waiting for, but to keep the baseball analogy, it’s an RBI double. Mathematics does some much-needed course correction.
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UncutOct 23, 2017Even if the production pores over old memories, when they fire on all cylinders the combination of their best MCs creates more than a nostalgia trip. [Dec 2017, p.33]
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Oct 16, 2017As a Wu-Tang album, The Saga Continues is good but not great, but it's a fine calling card for Mathematics, and makes the case that he should be given an album of his own more often.
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Oct 16, 2017It’s low-stakes stuff, but if you’re enough of a Wu fan to read this far, you’ll be happy the saga continues--at least for now.
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Nov 7, 2017The Saga Continues falls hazily to the side. While the project's title indicates the "saga continues"--featuring solid rhymes from each member and sample-heavy beats from Mathematics--it's not the opus that will surpass the classics in Wu's already established legacy.
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MojoOct 24, 2017Strip away the wearying kung-fu skits and there'a s hard-boiled 12-tracker at The Saga Continues' core. [Dec 2017, p.90]
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Oct 23, 2017Despite the excellent lyricism and genius flow, there are still hiccups. Most notably, these come from the Wu’s collaborators.
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Oct 17, 2017At its best, The Saga Continues captures some of the old Wu magic but unfortunately these moments are few and far between.
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Oct 16, 2017While The Saga Continues engenders enough wistful reminiscences to satisfy the core, it provides shockingly little in the way of memorable moments.
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Oct 16, 2017The Saga Continues, despite being a passably entertaining listen, is a grimmer entry, as there seems to be no concern for their legacy left.
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Dec 21, 2017The Saga Continues is lacklustre. At times it ventures into sellout territory. It’s not a terrible album (maybe I’ll add a few tracks to my ‘Chill’ playlist) but it never breaks new ground and it never touches the magic of 36 Chambers. Instead, it settles in a slightly anaemic midpoint between nostalgia and commercial compromise.
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The WireDec 19, 2017The Saga Continues is a somewhat unwieldy collection of Wu offcuts with seemingly no concept. Less an album than a collection of outtakes. [Dec 2017, p.64]
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Oct 16, 2017Enjoying this album will depend on your tolerance for Wu-Tang at its most generic.
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Oct 23, 2017The Saga Continues is full of competent if forgettable rapping straight out of the Wu-Tang manuscripts, and each Wu rapper does a serviceable job mustering up shades of their primes, in function. The verses don’t do what they used to, but at a distance they move in the same ways.