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A.V. Club
The real triumph of We’re New Here is that it doesn’t feel like an album-length remix. Instead, it’s a collaboration done the way Scott-Heron’s best team-ups always are
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9.0
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BBC
A cohesive, considered masterpiece in its own right
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9.0
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The Fly
Age and experience collide and swap roles, and it’s beyond exciting to listen to
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The Quietus
'New York Is Killing Me' is an awesome, beautiful complaint of urban entrapment worthy of Scott Heron's entire back catalogue, and it will remain a career high for Jamie
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Jamie ‘xx’ Smith chops, twists and bends Scott-Heron’s vocals, before placing them in entirely new musical terrains that bear little or no resemblance to the skeletal cuts on I’m New Here
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8.0
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PopMatters
A point of collision between old and new, of influence and those influenced
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8.0
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The Observer
While Smith's productions are consistently excellent, they aren't really there to augment Scott-Heron's words, but rather to keep appetites whetted for what Smith will do nex
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8.0
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The Guardian
Scott's old-soul narratives are reborn through Smith's atmospheric beats
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8.0
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The Irish Times
Much more of a meeting of equals than it might at first seem
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8.0
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Uncut
Reveals a meverick production talent in Jamie Smith that his band's records have only hinted at
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8.0
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Mojo
I'll Take Care Of You's makeover as a hands-in-the-air floor-shaker is garnished with genius. Print edition only
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State
Built around the enigmatic voice of Gil Scott-Heron, Jamie xx repositions that unmistakable sound amidst a wash of deeper-than-deep bass and propulsive beats
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
A loving homage to Gil Scott-Heron
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7.8
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Pitchfork
The residue of death that lingers on I'm New Here is wiped clean from We're New Here. It's replaced with brightness, an energy, and a historical milieu
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7.8
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Beats Per Minute
Whether you prefer Scott-Heron’s gritter and more unrefined sound, this collaboration feels like the ultimate compendium of New York’s music scene
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Under The Radar
Thanks to Jamie xx—40 years his junior—Scott-Heron has now had two comebacks in two consecutive years. Next step should be for Jamie xx to produce Scott-Heron from the ground up
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No Ripcord
A member of Britain’s best new band of the last couple of years is also potentially the best remixer and producer too. Not fair, is it?
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7.0
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Spin
Smith's skittering beats and ghostly soul divas put Scott-Heron right where he belongs
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NME
Shows a producer so in love with the music of now that he not only preserves the power of his source material, but makes it more relevant
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6.0
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Daily Telegraph
For the redoubtable Scott-Heron it’s another chapter in his crazy story, soon to be familiar to the thousands of xx fans who will buy the album, most young enough to be his grandchildren
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6.0
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Prefix
What you read is what you get here: an album full of small Scott-Heron samples bolstered by production from a member of the xx. Nothing more, nothing less
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6.0
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The Independent
A dub reimagining
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6.0
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The Digital Fix
It’s an intriguing, self-consciously cult-ish project that for the most part pushes Scott-Heron's vocals and thoughts to the background
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