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Broke With Expensive Taste

Azealia Banks

Broke With Expensive Taste

Belated digital release for the NY rapper's debut full length release, originally scheduled for 2012

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Prospect Park
UK Release date
06/11/2014
US Release date
06/11/2014
  1. 9.0 |   Spin

    A project dripping in confidence, class, brilliance, and personality
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 8.0 |   Beardfood

    Production is top notch, her energy is contageous and her tunes are memorable
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  6. 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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  7. 8.0 |   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. 8.0 |   The Observer

    It’s a contender for album of the year
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  9. 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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  10. 7.0 |   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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  11. 7.0 |   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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  12. 7.0 |   NME

    Was it worth the wait? Just about
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  13. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    This just might be the year's boldest release
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  14. 7.0 |   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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  15. 6.0 |   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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  16. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    An album of tough, savvy, cheeky and irresistible dance-pop gallivanting
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  17. 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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  18. 5.8 |   Earbuddy

    It’s not that it’s horrible, it’s just not really worth the time
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