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10.0
123338
10.0 |
A.V. Club
Arranged by Four Tet, the producer’s stunning album is poignant and sincere, combining beats, jazz, reggae toasts and vocal snippets into a kind of folklore
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9.0
123343
9.0 |
Vinyl Chapters
It’s modern, it’s innovative and it’s the very reason why they have as many fans as they do
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8.0
123363
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
This record further cements his status as one of the most creative and inspirational producers of today
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8.0
123339
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The wildly inventive rapper-producer teams up with electronic musician Four Tet to create an album that lives in the space between the past and the future
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8.0
123340
8.0 |
Beats Per Minute
Sound Ancestors is a realisation of what the Madlib and Hebden are capable of in tandem. It’s bold, different, and takes the genre of instrumental hip hop to the next level
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8.0
123494
8.0 |
Sungenre
Having these two producer titans – one specialising in hip-hop, one in electronic music but both interested in the other’s boundaries – is its own reward
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8.0
123554
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Sound Ancestors is Madlib revelling in his love of music
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7.9
123341
7.9 |
Pitchfork
On his collaborative album with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, the producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and archivist remains masterful by simply turning what he hears into something new and revelatory
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7.0
123342
7.0 |
Exclaim
A mixed bag if ever there was one. It's funky, it's psychedelic, it's jazzy, dirty, clean, and mean. It's Madlib
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7.0
123374
7.0 |
All Music
Eclectic, long-gestating full-length drawn from hundreds of Madlib beats and studio sessions, edited and arranged by Four Tet
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7.0
123474
7.0 |
Albumism
Madlib has certainly started 2021 on the right foot musically
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6.0
123505
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Sound Ancestors amounts to cool sonics that fail to leave a lasting impression
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