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Showtime

by Dizzee Rascal

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Overall Rating: 3.3381 Showtime is ranked overall as 3.3381 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.3322 Showtime has an avg. critic score of 3.3322 out of 4 stars

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It was Mogwai who once said: "Blur are shite." Wonder then, what they would think of Dizzee Rascal, whose delivery lies somewhere between unintelligible and uninhabitable, and who revels in sonic and lyrical territory which can only be described ...more
Pitchfork
The album naturally lacks the shock of the new, the jolt of Boy in Da Corner-- instead, it's a consolidation of his strengths, lyrically and sonically, and a more satisfying listen than its predecessor. ...more
Pitch Fork Media
Ah, moaning about celebrity. Even when the complaints of the rich and famous are valid, they're still often insufferable. It's no surprise that films about the horrors of being chased by the paparazzi or how awful it is for poor Julia Roberts to ...more
RapReviews.com
Do NOT approach this as a rap album, or you will be perplexed to no end. This is cerebral, intricate and inventive electronically-based music that is certainly hip-hop in ethic and inspiration, but channelled through a uniquely British conduit, ...more
cokemachineglow
While Showtime has one or two more duds than its shock-assault of a predecessor, its continued siege is of essentially comparable caliber. ...more

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Billboard
This is hip-hop for another era, one that makes the present day commercial U.S. material seem even more flat than it already is. ...more
Village Voice
A brash, dazzling dispatch from a parallel universe. ...more
New York Magazine
On Showtime, Dizzee doesn’t give up his sonic adventurousness, but he is a lot more disciplined about it. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)
A fattened-up answer to 2003's Boy In Da Corner, Showtime finds Rascal brooding over matters great and small without sounding overly ponderous or somber. ...more
Neumu.net
It's a disc in which Dizzee diz, lyrical wiz, is more forthright as lyricist, using the blank canvas of an "album" to sketch together a thoughtful, carefully-sequenced set in which his voice, and its elastic accent, ring clear. ...more
Splendid
Dizzee's voice still sounds like a helium-inflected hiccup, and the beats still sound like they were recorded directly from a Nintendo, if not an Atari. ...more
Stylus Magazine
Significantly altering the sound that won him critical praise and sold a quarter of a million albums takes some nerve. And that's what Showtime is about: Dizzee's newfound confidence. ...more
Playlouder
Bottom line: One dimensional ghetto fodder this is not. ...more
Uncut
If the excitable Boy In Da Corner thrust teenage MC and producer Dizzee Rascal to unthinkable heights, Showtime proudly posits the UK's leading grime ambassador back where he started: vexed, 10 storeys up, in Bow, E3. There is now much for Dylan ...more

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