Outsider
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Overall Rating:
1.9560
Avg. Critic Score:
2.2473
Outsider Rank 2 Reviews
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ShakingThrough
Josh "DJ Shadow" Davis The Outsider is a mix tape. The artful flow that defined Endtroducing and The Private Press has been eschewed in favor of individual tracks, and the album succeeds or fails along these lines.
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Guardian
Call it a draw. Both show flashes of ability, but neither will be carried aloft from the arena.
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Sputnikmusic.com
The legendary underground hip-hop DJ drops his signature sample-driven sound for a more upbeat, club-driven style relying more heavily on vocals and raps that is bound to scratch more heads than wax.
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The Independent
On his third album, DJ Shadow posits himself as a renegade outsider in the music biz, and certainly theres no easy niche in which to pigeonhole the various stylistic strands that comprise The Outsider.
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Guardian
One release date, two titans of turntablism, both releasing album number three. Don King might call it the Match of the Scratchers or the Vinyl Final. In the blue corner stands DJ Shadow, the Californian whose 1996 debut, Endtroducing, was
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Pitchfork
The Outsider sounds like a chore-- to record, to listen to, and to review.
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