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9.0
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9.0 |
Spin
A project dripping in confidence, class, brilliance, and personality
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Quietus
Finally, Banks's talents have gotten the extended spotlight they've deserved. Her singing is almost as accomplished as her rapping
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A brilliant, brutal mind-fuck, in the way that great albums tend to be
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8.3
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8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
No box, corporate or critical, can restrain a talent this promising and an id this formidable
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8.0
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8.0 |
Beardfood
Production is top notch, her energy is contageous and her tunes are memorable
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Music
Broke… isn’t perfect; encompassing two years of tracks the album’s way too long and wildly inconsistent in places – but the peaks far outweigh the troughs
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8.0
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Pitchfork
By the end of Broke With Expensive Taste you’ll come to see Azealia Banks as a dance pop classicist underneath the flailing
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8.0
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The Observer
It’s a contender for album of the year
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7.5
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7.5 |
Crack
It’s the sound of overpriced rent and underground travel. An opulent – albeit fairly one-track – exercise in repositioning rap for Dior-heavy dancefloors
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7.0
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PopMatters
As wildly disparate as it is, with songs culled from a three-year career and innumerable influences, Broke With Expensive Taste is a suitable mission statement from an artist hoping to make an impact
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7.0
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Clash
A bubbly, bright and boisterous affair which packs more sumptuous hits into its 16 cuts than it does even minor misses
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7.0
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NME
Was it worth the wait? Just about
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
This just might be the year's boldest release
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7.0
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musicOMH
Doesn’t quite live up to the hype, what it certainly does do though, is prove that there’s an awful lot of talent beneath the self-generated controversy
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6.0
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Drowned In Sound
Has instances of stunningly original songwriting and there's rarely a dull moment, but it's more a kaleidoscopic 'story so far' than a complete manifesto
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6.0
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The Irish Times
An album of tough, savvy, cheeky and irresistible dance-pop gallivanting
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Sespite the many flashes of wit and inspiration displayed here, Broke with Expensive Taste only provides brief glimpses of the singular intensity of her persona
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5.8
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Earbuddy
It’s not that it’s horrible, it’s just not really worth the time
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