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Awfully Deep

by Roots Manuva

ALBUM RANKINGS:

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  • All Time
    of 455,637
    8,260
  • 2000's
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    1,052
  • 2005
    of 37,902
    159
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 2.7717 Awfully Deep is ranked overall as 2.7717 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.0833 Awfully Deep has an avg. critic score of 3.0833 out of 4 stars

Awfully Deep Album Reviews

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Excellent
4
 
(4)
Very Good
3
 
(17)
Good
2
 
(3)
Fair
1
 
(0)
Poor
0
 
(2)

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Stylus Magazine
In 2001 Rodney Smith found himself not only nominated for but also hotly-tipped to win the UK’sallegedlyprestigious Mercury Music Prize forRun Come Save Me, his second album as Roots Manuva. ...more
Stylus Magazine
His best [album] yet, his most fully-formed, emotionally engaging and sonically rewarding. ...more
Entertainment Weekly
A thrilling mix of moody ambivalence and soulful reggae-tinged hip-hop
PopMatters
Not a brilliant album, not his best (that remains Run Come Save Me), just a damn fine selection of mood-groove-dub-flavours by one of music's true inimicables. ...more
PopMatters
He got mad style, he strictly Roots Never mind your Mike Skinners and your boys from Bow, Rodney Smith remains the most charismatic, most wilfully eccentric and most sonically adventurous British MC to transform uncomprisingly individual music into ...more
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The Guardian
Smith has crafted an album that is deft, addictive and profoundly musical, and it feels like a fresh-minted classic....read the complete review at The Guardian
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ShakingThrough.net
Awfully Deep is another strong release for Smith, and while it doesn’t sport the effortless flow of his debut or the rich variety of Run Come Save Me, its considered assessment of where he’s been and where he might be heading helps the album more...read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net
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cokemachineglow
It’s a lot of slickness that adds up to little, though, as a culturally myopic Roots Manuva audibly struggles to feel out the changed face of hip-hop; he sounds unsure of what tone to take and what words to say....read the complete review at cokemachineglow
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musicOMH.com
It looks as if Roots Manuva had to travel through some kind of personal hell in the making of this album, and the fact he's emerged the other side with a grin and sense of humour still intact says much about the strength of his personality.Being labeled...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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