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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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