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MartyrLoserKing

Saul Williams

MartyrLoserKing

Sixth album from New York poet, songwriter and rapper

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7.0

Label
Caroline International US
UK Release date
29/01/2016
US Release date
29/01/2016
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  1. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    MartyrLoserKing may not just be one of Saul Williams' best, but it could also find itself among the most important albums of this year
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Williams remains the data-age Gil Scott-Heron
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  3. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    A true revolutionary in a world that needs one but doesn't know it yet
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Music with something to say is out there; you just have to know where to look
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  5. 8.0 |   Spin

    It’s not rap, it’s whatever form slam poetry takes in 2016, and it’s not rock
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  6. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    MartyrLoserKing may be a call to 21st-century activism, but it also seems anachronistic
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  7. 7.0 |   Clash

    After listening it dawns there’s been a real absence of these overtly political records of late, and you realise that is truly a terrible shame
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  8. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Concept albums should be a narrative, not just variations on a theme, especially when it gets this repetitive
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  9. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    MartyLoserKing is the ‘annotated middle finger’, wise and strong enough to reinvigorate those who thought rap had lost its conscience
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  10. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It would be nice to hear his ambition translated to a record less fragmented than the society he’s reflecting
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  11. 6.0 |   NOW

    His musical output has always freely crossed genre boundaries, a pattern that continues on MartyrLoserKing, with its mix of hip-hop, industrial, electronic, punk and African influences
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