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End It All

Beans

End It All

Fifth album from rapper / producer and one of the founding members of New York-based Antipop Consortium

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Anticon
UK Release date
21/02/2011
US Release date
15/02/2011
  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 8.5 |   Prefix

    End It All is Beans’ party. He plays host, friends bring beats
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  4. 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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  5. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    End It All is a focused, streamlined hip-hop album
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 7.0 |   DIY

    If you can keep up you’ll realise that this man knows what he is talking about
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  11. 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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  12. 7.0 |   Spin

    A cast of collaborators burnish his rhyme schemes into high-tech funk
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  13. 7.0 |   Clash

    Quick on the draw, Beans bosses a bite-sized blitz of syllable practice
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  14. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Beans has never sounded more feral on the mic
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  15. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    At their most disjointed, his lyrics can be equally frustratingly obtuse and wryly clever
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  16. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Oddly the problem here is Beans himself. Print edition only

  17. 6.0 |   Q

    A dizzying array of instrumental backdrops. Print edition only

  18. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Decent enough...just crying out for a few more tracks
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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