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The E.N.D.

Black Eyed Peas

The E.N.D.

More chart-friendly hip hop from the big-selling LA outfit

ADM rating[?]

6.0

Label
Interscope
UK Release date
08/06/2009
  1. 8.0 |   The Observer

    It's out with the soulful hip-hop and in with vocoder-heavy electro-dance... pure 80s-era Madonna-inspired pop brilliance
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  2. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    They're excuses for Will.i.am to go nuts with beats and blips, and to maneuver his bandmates... he does the musical equivalent of the CNN shtick: doing silly, gratuitous, cool things with technology just because, you know, it can be done. As often as not the results are dumb. And that's an awfully good thing.
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  3. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    16 tracks is a fistful too many and with the exception of the Where is the Love? re-write, One Tribe, the second half dips into mind-numbing dross
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  4. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    As on their recent No 1 single, Boom Boom Pow, electronic clicks and buzzes are used lavishly, and the mood is as positive as ever. Just don't expect to love it immediately
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  5. 6.0 |   The Times

    By frontloading the album with all its best tunes, Black Eyed Peas set a standard they simply can’t maintain — and the lacklustre party jams comprising the final half hour of E.N.D. would try the patience of a corpse
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  6. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    The beats are tight, the mood is right, and you’ll shake your ass well into the night. You just may not be able to respect yourself in the morning
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  7. 5.0 |   Spin

    The Peas hone their post-millennial party anthems to an even more piquantly peppy sheen
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