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Relax

Das Racist

Relax

First "official" album from the satirical alternative hip hop outfit, featuring beats from producers Diplo and El-P

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Red General
UK Release date
12/09/2011
US Release date
13/09/2011
  1. 9.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Das Racist are smart enough to know exactly how dumb their repetitive stoner slogans sound. They’re also smart enough to make them catchy as hell
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  2. 8.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    It becomes apparent after a few spins of Relax that lyrics are still Das Racist’s staying power, despite the record’s accessibility and pop-leaning aptitude
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  3. 8.5 |   Prefix

    Two of the most entertaining MCs out today
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  4. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    They have pulled off the coup of elevating their game without changing their nature
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  5. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Encyclopedic rhymes and referential material abound. The beats are wily, far too glitchy to be considered straight rap, yet much too grounded lyrically to be written off as just weird dance music
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  6. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Relax finds Das Racist operating as both consumers and creators of pop culture, spawning an endless pomo cycle of criticism and observation
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  7. 8.0 |   Spin

    We join Das Racist in the Hey, These Guys Are Actually Really Good phase of their inexplicable career
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The hip-hop jokers have grown into acerbic satire hustlers
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  9. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    It’s knowing, tongue-in-cheek rap whose energy feeds off constant connectivity to the Internet: It’s accountable and hyper-aware
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  10. 6.3 |   Pitchfork

    While they've made great use of deconstructive syntax, repetition, gibberish, and in-jokes in the past, too much of Relax simply feels like dead air
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  11. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Where once they might have been subtle in criticising the predomination of pop culture, Relax shows Das Racist wanting to now be a part of it. In doing so, Das Racist has traded in the currency that made them so special
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  12. 5.0 |   No Ripcord

    They sometimes touch upon socio-political themes, but their lyrics are nowhere near as quotable as on their mixtapes
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