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All in all, Dizzee hasn't gone all out to make an artistic masterpiece, but it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.
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Grime champ steps up to the mark with career-best record.
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There's a party to be had and Dizzee's in charge, but don't forget to engage your brain for at least some of it.
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It unquestionably adds up to a pop record sharp enough to be the bratty but irresistible younger brother of Lily Allen's "It's Not Me, It's You."
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If it's less wilfully uncommercial than his earlier oeuvre, which frequently made the listener feel like they were being mugged in the middle of an amusement arcade, its distorted synthesisers are still edgily thrilling.
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Q MagazineIt's been a long time coming, but Brit-rap's first genuinely huge album is here. [Oct 2009, p.104]
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MojoWhere Dizzee Rascal's deliberately diverse third album "Maths & English" found him flirting with more mainstream pop styles, this leaner, punchier fourth record comsummates that union to entirely gratisfying effect. [Oct 2009, p.96]
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He sounds damn good over trashy, flashy electro that manages to keep pace with cadences as hyperactive as his own, and, above all, he's way more fun than he's often given credit for.
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The beats on Tongue N’ Cheek are still raw, clamorous and unpredictable, but in a springy, primary-coloured way.
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Tongue's paradox is that the more Dizzee and his collaborators don't work, the more the album does.
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Apr 12, 2015
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Dec 31, 2010Brilliant album. He completely represents grime music in a brilliant way.