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10.0
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The Skinny
Working with an array of collaborators with impressive cohesivity, on his latest album, billy woods reflects on race and class through surrealist, horror-inspired soundscapes
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9.0
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Clash
An abrasive, demanding album with a beautifully singular vision
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
The album is intensely confrontational and makes no effort to hold your hand
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Golliwog may be filled with allusions to the cannon of Black horror but its setting is the real world, a horror story created by our own loud silences. That’s about as scary as it gets
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9.0
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Exclaim
Full of horror and self-described Afro-pessimism, GOLLIWOG is frequently grim. And yet, it's not a difficult listen, since woods is simply too clever of a writer for him not to tickle my sense of humour
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9.0
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Spectrum Culture
billy woods is the premier lyricist of his generation, and the details that flow out of his pen sharpen with every album he releases
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9.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
woods’s golliwog is the rare symbol that truly awakens from the dead on what seems like his twentieth stellar full-length, given breath by the cursed voodoo that permeates the entirety of the album
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9.0
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musicOMH
The American rapper dwells on scary things – both fictional and real – for his latest album
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8.9
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8.9 |
Paste Magazine
Irreversible, unavoidable self-destruction at the foot of power is a tale as old as humankind, but rarely is it captured so poignantly, or as comprehensively, as on the Brooklyn MC's latest
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8.8
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8.8 |
Northern Transmissions
Dislocated ends this record in a crushing and emotionally expressive way with the jagged instrumentation reacting to the flows and bars of Billy with some gorgeous strings floating in the background. A stunning end to a beautiful record
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8.7
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Pitchfork
The Brooklyn rapper’s new solo album is a twisty horrorcore masterpiece where history and nightmares are indistinguishable. The spooky backdrop is a perfect showcase for his craft
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8.3
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8.3 |
Beats Per Minute
Assisted by his producers, he spotlights the absurdity and nightmare of human existence while lauding the magical properties of art
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8.0
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The Guardian
The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanity
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8.0
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All Music
Even more so than woods' other albums, GOLLIWOG is a challenging work dealing with grim yet truthful subject matter, but it's fascinating and enjoyable due to the rapper's brilliant writing and focused delivery, as well as innovative production from his collaborators
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8.0
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The Quietus
This is the kind of album that rewards repeat visits
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8.0
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PopMatters
n GOLLIWOG, billy woods explores the endlessly shifting shades of horror. It’s not an easy listen, but it’s a stunning achievement
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