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8.0
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The Guardian
Younge’s lavish, jazz- and soul-tinged production providing the aural red carpet for one of rap’s greatest yarn-spinners
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8.0
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NME
His third album in as many years shows he’s on a streak that’s both prolific and high quality
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8.0
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8.0 |
The FT
The music with which a bloody tale of vengeance plays out is a superb pastiche of old movie scores
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Suggests that breaking new ground might be a futile undertaking if there's this much juice left in the good old tricks
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8.0
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Clash
The focus from all concerned makes the convincingly grisly fiction a lot of fun
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
The whole album is well-thought through, full of imagination and tightly executed
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7.5
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The 405
The legend of Ghostface Killah has most certainly continued mercilessly, gifting us with twelve more reasons to spin the wax he's immortalized on
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7.2
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Pitchfork
Ghostface is the visible star at the center of the production, but he is backed by Adrian Younge, the silent star who stitches TRTD II together at the seams with his evocative soul samples and crisp live drums
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7.0
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The Music
Hyper-visual ‘70s crime-sploitation, Mafioso, eye-for-an-eye retribution and supernatural schlock
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7.0
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PopMatters
While quality control can only help Ghostface Killah (four albums in three years) so long as he keeps working with producers as talented as Adrian Younge, he’ll keep delivering solid albums
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7.0
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Exclaim
In the future, Ghost should do more of that heavy lifting, taking a cue from producer Adrian Younge, who provides his signature analogue flavour to sumptuous effect throughout
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6.7
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Consequence Of Sound
It’s natural that the album’s best cuts are the ones where the performers work overtime with their words
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6.5
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Spectrum Culture
12RTDII serves up new technology, but it fails to fly from its predecessor, retreading ground that can be painfully familiar
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6.0
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NOW
What it lacks is an interesting emotional – and thus truly cinematic – dimension
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6.0
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The Irish Times
No one can spin a tale like Ghost and these brilliantly outlined and occasionally outlandish yarns are perfectly matched with Younge’s sweeping, swaying, swaggering jazz and soul-bedecked soundscapes
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6.0
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Spin
Younge takes a predictable franchise and goes rogue, scraping together a more listenable half hour than anything else Ghostface has released in the 2010s
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6.0
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Gig Soup
Succeeds when its approach to storytelling telling is direct; it also feels larger, more epic than its predecessor
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Skinny
Though equal parts soulful and silly, Part Two still gets weighed down in stage blood
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