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9.0
22500
9.0 |
AU Review
With the confident swagger of a musical authority and a lethal dose of jaw-dropping bass ‘n’ beats, slaps 2011 right on its gyrating arse
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8.5
22197
8.5 |
BBC
The array of producers provide intriguing arrangements that skitter and slide, glitch and glide; that snap, crackle and pop their way into sensory overload
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8.5
22300
8.5 |
Prefix
End It All is Beans’ party. He plays host, friends bring beats
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8.0
22193
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
If you’re not a longstanding Beans/Antipop fan, End It All is a great introduction. If you are, it may give you a whole new appreciation
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8.0
22194
8.0 |
The Skinny
End It All is a focused, streamlined hip-hop album
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8.0
22200
8.0 |
All Music
If all underground rap releases were this good, true hip-hop heads wouldn’t have the time to listen to anything else
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8.0
22201
8.0 |
Subba Cultcha
Musically it's pretty much faultless with the productions dialled down to give Bean's sharp, nasally voice room to breathe
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7.5
22202
7.5 |
The 405
End It All is an unsettling listen, and may have benefited from a few more touches of light to keep the darkness at bay
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7.3
22198
7.3 |
Pitchfork
Another well-earned notch in Beans' solo belt and a testament to the strength of his artistic vision
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7.0
22435
7.0 |
DIY
If you can keep up you’ll realise that this man knows what he is talking about
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7.0
22195
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
End It All can seem like the product of a schizophrenic in the archaic sense, two severed halves of an amygdala that happen to reside in the same body
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7.0
22196
7.0 |
Spin
A cast of collaborators burnish his rhyme schemes into high-tech funk
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7.0
22659
7.0 |
Clash
Quick on the draw, Beans bosses a bite-sized blitz of syllable practice
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7.0
25816
7.0 |
Blurt
Beans has never sounded more feral on the mic
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6.0
22923
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
At their most disjointed, his lyrics can be equally frustratingly obtuse and wryly clever
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6.0
22217
6.0 |
Uncut
Oddly the problem here is Beans himself. Print edition only
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6.0
22222
6.0 |
Q
A dizzying array of instrumental backdrops. Print edition only
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6.0
22481
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Decent enough...just crying out for a few more tracks
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6.0
22199
6.0 |
musicOMH
Beans is a graciously barbaric rapper, and his no-holds-barred verse-attack has a viscerally enchanting quality.
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5.0
22417
5.0 |
PopMatters
These are collaborations worth hearing, but in no way at all do they add up to an end product that is particularly memorable or consistently engaging
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4.0
22586
4.0 |
Drowned In Sound
13 breakneck tracks in just over half an hour is frankly too much for the brain to properly absorb
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