Phrenology | Loppylugs

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 16 February 2013 - 10:27pm

Cover:

Artist:

The Roots

album-ID:

a_63

Nationality:

USA

Year:

2 002

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Phrentrow*Rock You*!!!!!!!*Sacrifice*Rolling With Heat*Waok (Ay) Rollcall*Thought @ Work*The Seed (2.0)*Break You Off*Water*Quills*Pussy Galore*Complexity*Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)*Rhymes And Ammo/Thirsty

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_24

Now-num:

Spotify-URL:

3SZiWQAgalzA34Y2IfFMmW

Grooveshark-URL:

Phrenology/115895

Short-title:

phrenology

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Friday, 20 November 2009

MusicBrainz-URL:

98277141-0f63-3796-894a-11409d1377c4

Wikipedia-URL:

Phrenology_(album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

phrenology/the-roots

Discogs-URL:

Roots-Phrenology/master/39900

Allmusic-URL:

phrenology-mw0000226035

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury

Definately too long but the good tracks are great.
76

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

I seen something / you seen it too / we just can't call its name

2-4-8

6-10-12

This is an album I thought I knew pretty well but I'm not sure I'd previously made it all the way through to the end and hadn't realised it is a bit sprawling and amorphous. What I thought was a fairly straight-ahead old skool style hip-hop album, with touches of rock, does actually contain quite a number of other styles and a few curve balls as well. Something in the Way of Things is an example of that, a freaky old, beat-poetry, weird-out that I quite enjoyed but which definitely felt like it had found its way onto the wrong album.

I felt the album was too long and some songs went on longer than they needed to. If this had been trimmed back to vinyl size this would be a bit of a classic, as there are a number of great songs - songs with a nice, simple mix of instrumentation and a good rap voice. It's largely simple stuff but bang on; vibrant and good 'n' funky.
72

reviewed by

Graham Dawson

shape yer skull

1-4-8-13

not really a hippy-hop sort of bloke, but found this one growing on me. got a few clever ideas happening & i liked the live drums. it will get played again... i can't say fairer than that.
69

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

1-7

13

A surprisingly original and varied album. It has a decent splattering of proper hard no nonsense old school rap tracks in it, but is let down by the predictable modern R&B sound which just seems so common, and lame from a production point of view.

What makes this album stand out from the crowd are the tracks which completely change style with a few moments of psychedelia thrown in, giving it a variation not often found on this type of album. Nice work.