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| 4.0 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | June 20th 23 |
Yeeeehaw soulful'n'jazzy hip hop is always a winner for my solipsist heart. Warm basslines and smooth key lines deliver the musical goods while energetic rapping brings intensity to the mix.
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| 4.0 excellent | cjbizzlebizzle | December 31st 23 |
For only 28 minutes 'Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?' accomplishes more than most musicians produce in albums more than twice as long as that. The record starts out with a fairly unassuming reading setting the stage for many great moments that follow. 'Sun, I Rise' shines a light on both Dixon's powerful lyricism and bold delivery as well as the instrumentation on the album, in that case a wonderful string section and live drums accompany the lyricists. 'Mezzanine Tippin' gets a bit weird reminiscent of something like Atrocity Exhibition before a battery of some of the best jazz rap songs of recent memory come through. Personally, it feels like 'Live! From the Kitchen Table', with wonderful rap + saxophone + keys interplay, is the triumph of this record but you can make the case for many of the songs here. 'Tyler, Forever' deserves a bit of a shoutout too, bringing in a less jazz focused style to help give the album a bit more variety and flow.
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| 4.5 superb | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | September 22nd 23 |
This goes industrially hard, but still manages to stay ethereally blissful. Damned if this ain't hip-hop record of the year.
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| 4.5 superb | afterthenight | July 31st 23 |
feels like a mini tpab, love itrmckinley dixon also displays an incredible potential here, look forward to anything he makes next
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| 3.5 great | ajcollins15 | June 14th 23 |
There is a lot to love from this sophomore McKinley Dixon album, but there is also a small dip in quality from his bombastic debut a few years ago. The jazz rap album has booming and sophisticated jazz instrumentals that have that modern jazz-rap flair of a TPAB or an Avantdale Bowling Club, but it has the energetic and fast-paced rapping of a JID. However, the breath of the track list really tracks feel like he is getting into a flow with Tracks ending as fast as they start. Overall, it?s still a really enchanting and promising record that continues to build McKinley?s sound to extreme heights, just needs some more tuning in the future.
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| 3.0 good | jmh886 | January 10th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Araz | December 30th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dubboop | December 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | alamo | December 26th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | meto | October 1st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gillie | September 15th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | tellah | September 3rd 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Emo | August 27th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Handers | August 19th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | iGuter | August 15th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | SadLad | July 18th 23 |
| 3.5 great | vult | June 27th 23 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | June 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | NBA | June 20th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | June 17th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh-D | June 10th 23 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | June 9th 23 |
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