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| Pitchfork |
 As odd as it sounds, it's hard to imagine a new Reflection Eternal album as any kind of comeback. The duo's Train of Thought was one of the reasons indie rap felt so vibrant in 2000, and 10 years later it's an underground classic. But from that point onwards, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek have been doing good for themselves on their own. Ever since Jay-Z pointed to him as a lyrical ideal on The Black Album's "Moment of Clarity", Kweli seems to have treated it as both an honor and a challenge. He's subsequently grown into the role of an uncompromising lifer: spitting double-time, folding internal rhymes in on themselves, toying with meter in a way that would leave other MCs tripping over their own tongues, and building his countless metaphors and punchlines into big-picture politics and vivid narratives. And Hi-Tek's production style has developed a similar non-complacent comfortability, subtly honing down and polishing his intricate club-caliber neo-soul to the point where it sneaks up on you instead of knocking you over.So Revolutions Per Minute isn't as momentous a revival as it might seem-- it's just, well, another good Talib Kweli album with more solid Hi-Tek beats, an example of good chemistry between two artists who happen to have good chemistry with lots of other collaborators. And it might be tempting to take something like that for granted, maybe start picking apart its flaws instead. There are a couple: It's never a good idea to open an album with that old "I'm an escapee from a 1950s educational film and I'm here to tell you how record players work" bit. Someone decided to invite Chester French over for "Get Loose" for some reason. And while the Estelle-featuring "Midnight Hour" makes for a better Black Eyed Peas single than the Black Eyed Peas, farty big-band horns and cornily delivered lines like "We riders on the storm/ Touch me baby, like the Doors" aren't why you are interested in this record....full text |
| Blogcritics |
| I know that most people are clamoring for the Talib Kweli-based duo to release a new album, but people forget that Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek also produced an acclaimed album, Train of Thought, under their Reflection Eternal name. Now the two have collaborated quite a bit together in the ten years since that album, but it was only until their Re:Union mixtape a few months back that they came together to bring back the energy from that album to make a new one, Revolutions Per Minute. In a lot of respects, this album is a continuation of what Talib and Hi-Tek have been doing in their own solo careers.Tek, now working under Dre's Aftermath Entertainment, has been pushing his beats under the Hi-Teknology series of albums, and it shows in certain rhythms here. "Got Work" has an eerie melody over it, while "Ballad of the Black Gold" and "Back Again" have very uplifting ones that is very different than Hi-Tek's normal work.The Motown-inspired rhythms of "Midnight Hour" are downright odd to hear coming from him, but they work really well. There are still tracks that work on the tried and true Tek styling of lo-fi melodies over beats.Songs like "Just Begun" and "In This World" are good examples of of that....full text |
| Wordpress |
| Un album în duo-ul (Talib Kweli & Hi Tech) după care fanii zăbălesc, de la Train of Thought (2000) încoace. Nu pot să spun că m-a încântat în totalitate, însă are destule piese impecabile – revigorante cu mesaj pozitiv. Midnight Hour, In This World, Strangers, la care găsiţi şi videoclipuri… mi se par cele mai reuşite. “please be sure to download this recording from your nearest interent provider which is in itself a shift in the paradigm of music” Căutaţi fişierul pe Google cu termenii: usershare Reflection Eternal – Revolutions Per Minute Tracklist: 01 RPM’s 02 Back Again feat. Res 03 City Playgrounds 04 Strangers feat. Bun B 05 In This World 06 Got Work (Fame) 07 Midnight Hour feat. Estelle 08 In the Red 09 Lift’in Off 10 Black Gold Intro (The Black Gold Countdown) 11 Ballad of the Black Gold 12 Just Begun feat. Jay Electronica, J. Cole and Mos Def 13 Long Hot Summer 14 Get Loose feat. Chester French 15 So Good 16 Ends feat. Bilal 17 Outro...full text |
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