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Dec 18, 2012It's unfortunate that Vicious Lies has come out after everyone has finished compiling their year-end lists, but it's already a contender for best record of 2013.
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Dec 10, 2012He makes like the great funk weirdos of yesteryear, plunging his purple psychedelic prose beneath creamy seas of keyboard, two-stepping funk, and indie flotsam.
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Jan 29, 2013Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors has a much more electronic feel to it, with a plethora of synthesizers. The brassy street thump of past Big Boi releases is still present, it's just more centralized.
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Dec 13, 2012For two solo albums now Andre Patton has not merely proved that he's a capable solo artist, he's helping to redefine what a hip-hop album can sound like.
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Dec 11, 2012Big Boi might have already seen his career peak, but he certainly is at his most selfless, honest, and exploratory now.
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Dec 20, 2012It's really working out for him.
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Dec 13, 2012This isn't an immediate album. It's one that will take a few listens, but your patience will be rewarded.
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Dec 12, 2012Big Boi goes a long way in carving out an individual identity while still waving the Outkast flag.
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Dec 12, 2012With his latest effort, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, the 37-year-old Dungeon Family elite again tackles fresh sonic landscapes while remaining nimble with verbal wizardry.
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Dec 11, 2012Bringing these new jacks together in harmony is impressive enough; the ease with which Big Boi insinuates his smack-talking, game-kicking self into their midst, even more so.
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Dec 10, 2012Even in Outkast, Big Boi was never merely a macho cartoon; now, he's revealing he's a grown-up.
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Dec 10, 2012General Patton walks a fine line between putting his troop of featured artists in their place, while still showcasing his own five star pedigree.
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Dec 10, 2012Vicious Lies may not be revolutionary in its sonic palette, but the very excellence of the music on its own merits seems like an industry bellwether, the ante upped on production expectations going forward.
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Dec 10, 2012Fascinating speed-bumps aside, it's a mission still very much accomplished.
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UncutFeb 4, 2013It's not as scintillating as we've come to expect from the OutKast camp, but plenty of fun nonetheless. [Mar 2013, p.67]
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Jan 30, 2013Despite the heterogeneous nature of the album as a whole, Patton is never out of his depth, even when paired with unusual collaborators.
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Dec 18, 2012Despite its excesses and missteps, the album gives Big Boi room to be Big Boi.
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Dec 13, 2012Some may bemoan the "been here, done that" vibes that invariably come with a sequel album such as this one, but so be it: we're still left with one of the most fascinating, surprising, and entertaining rap albums you're going to hear all year.
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Dec 11, 2012With Lies, Patton doesn't merely get weirder; he pushes the weirdness in a different direction, turning down the club bombast and horns of Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty in favor of electronica dreamscapes courtesy of indie acts such as Little Dragon and Phantogram.
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Dec 13, 2012Vicious Lies isn't a bad album by any means, but it suffers when held up to the expectations of the past.
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Dec 10, 2012Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is on the one hand a genre-busting statement of artistic restlessness but it's also a mess.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013While My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was anchored by Kanye's galactic ego, Big Boi often gets lost in the crowd. [Feb 2013, p.102]
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Jan 7, 2013Curiously, it gets better as it goes on.
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Jan 7, 2013Big Boi is the best thing about the album--and double props for staying true to his entire career's quest of never making the same album twice. But Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors as a whole? It's all over the place.
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Jan 3, 2013While Killer Mike, Jai Paul and Big KRIT all earn their places, Kelly Rowland, Kid Cudi and Bosco are unnecessary decoration, and contribute to the overall sensation that this is a good album in need of a brutal trim.
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Dec 20, 2012It feels rushed, like it needed more time for its many ingredients to blend.
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Dec 13, 2012The disparate guest list means the record lacks some cohesion, but Big Boi--ambitious, effusive and still a remarkably lithe rapper--holds it all together.
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Dec 13, 2012Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is much more compilation than album album, more than any of Big Boi's solo efforts to date.
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Dec 11, 2012Everything about this record is a shame: it explores new creative territory, the rhyming is solid and syntactically delightful (Big Boi's pronunciations are always more quotable than his lines), and it's a deserving outcast trying to make good as one-record-every-two-years lifer. And it simply does not work.
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Jan 8, 2013Without a single in sight, even by Outkast's loosey-goosey standards, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors feels like three or four different records surgically stitched together illicitly by some cross-eyed back alley quack.
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Dec 11, 2012In his quest to impress, Big Boi short-changes the street-level swagger that always kept his partner Andre 3000 here on Earth.
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Dec 10, 2012Big Boi adapts to the unfamiliar surroundings with little effort and often sounds comfortable, but the fusions are short on power.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 53
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Mixed: 8 out of 53
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Negative: 3 out of 53
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Jan 4, 2013
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Dec 12, 2012Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors takes you to many places