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  • Summary: The Bay Area hip-hop producer (known to his parents as Topher Lafata) teams with vocalist Sue Cie for his second release.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. The Wire
    80
    The sound has a new depth. [#249, p.65]
  2. The result is so refreshing original, it not only cements Gold Chains' position as one of today's best and brightest indie-tech gurus; it also says, coolly and effortlessly, that genre boundaries are "no big thang".
  3. Uncut
    70
    A startling album of high-spirited pick'n'mix pop. [Nov 2004, p.122]
  4. The key flaw with this album is that it doesn’t have any of the bangers that GC can do so well.
  5. These brittle, next-wave-of-new-wave productions plow no new ground and barely serve the lyrics to which they're chained.
  6. Unfortunately, the observational heart of the disc's best rhymes are obscured by manicured eccentricity and musical dilettantism.
  7. When the World Was Our Friend is for third-tier tone-deaf hipsters.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. veronicah
    Dec 12, 2004
    10
    I don't know why these people don't understand the GCSC. I think it is an incredible record. I appreciate how GC is constantly I don't know why these people don't understand the GCSC. I think it is an incredible record. I appreciate how GC is constantly evolving and keeping things fresh. Sue Cie is a great addition to the mix! Expand