Released June 28, 2011 Producer Knife Knights Black Up
(2011) Live at KEXP
(2012) Release date 28 June 2011 Genre Experimental hip hop | Length 36:01 Live at Sasquatch 2010
(2011) Black Up
(2011) Artist Shabazz Palaces Label Sub Pop | |
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Black Up is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Shabazz Palaces. It was released on June 28, 2011 in the United States on Sub Pop. The album was produced by "Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands."
Contents
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Critical reception
Black Up received widespread critical acclaim; many commented on the experimental song structures and intricate lyricism. Review aggregator Metacritic gave the album a normalised rating of 83, indicating "universal acclaim". Metacritic included Black Up in its "Midyear Report: The Best Music of 2011 So Far."
In his review for MSN Music, music critic Robert Christgau said that, misleading titles notwithstanding, the album "improves mightily when the volume is high enough to break the beats into components so they're impossible to ignore." Jon Pareles, writing in The New York Times, viewed the album as proof that hip hop "still has an audacious progressive fringe." Kitty Empire of The Observer wrote that, although it is not game-changing, Black Up resonate with listeners in a way the conventional hip hop cannot because each track is "lean and muscular, never losing sight of the fact that hip-hop should writhe inexorably forward."
Personnel
Songs
1Free Press and Curl4:16
2An Echo From the Hosts That Profess Infinitum3:15
3Are You… Can You… Were You? (Felt)4:48