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8.0
19170
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Evening Standard
The E.N.D. confirmed The Black Eyed Peas as the planet's hip-hop pop band of choice. And this sixth album shows there's been no mistake
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7.0
19335
7.0 |
Spin
A glimpse of what the Top 40 could sound like in the not-too-distant future
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6.0
19374
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
If you do wish to escape it, please avoid bars, open windows, doctors' waiting rooms, sporting events, sitcom montages, preschool graduations and your grandma for the next year or so, because it's gonna drown 'em all in rhythm and sound
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6.0
19176
6.0 |
The Guardian
It's a densely packed, busy record – getting to grips with all the samples and clubby beats takes dedicated listening
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6.0
19180
6.0 |
The Independent
This surely comprises the party album of the year, one you're probably going to become thoroughly familiar with over the festive season
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6.0
19588
6.0 |
Rave Magazine
If you’re one of those people who hate The Black Eyed Peas on principle, this won’t be the album to turn you around, but if not, then enjoy
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6.0
19880
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It is in no way anything to dissect or to look for hidden meanings in. Sometimes you just need to let loose and enjoy the beat
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5.0
19494
5.0 |
The Observer
There's nary an inch of non-AutoTuned vocal to be heard here, and far too many tracks are harried by a trigger-happy finger on the stutter-effect button
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4.0
19532
4.0 |
BBC
It betrays a contempt for its audience, and disquietingly low levels of self-belief on the part of corporate American pop
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4.0
19182
4.0 |
The Irish Times
The Beginning doesn't pack the wallop of previous releases, but there's still some state-of-the-art stuff here
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4.0
19203
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
A relentlessly efficient stadium-pop hit machine into which market data can be fed, and the optimum product pops out the other end
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4.0
19319
4.0 |
Slant Magazine
Toward the album's climax, Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap repeatedly insist, "This is the best one yet." They're telling themselves. The club is empty
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3.0
19370
3.0 |
musicOMH
If The Black Eyed Peas want to sing, dance and rap about having good nights and getting laid, that's fine; but expecting a discerning audience to buy this bottle-rocket crap as an album is pure delusion
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2.0
19488
2.0 |
Eye Weekly
A bromidic example of cheap hook-writing on autopilot
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1.0
19550
1.0 |
A.V. Club
The Beginning’s shameless hit-mongering and MOR club stance gives this set about as much oomph as Cher’s Believe
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