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8.0
35830
8.0 |
Q
Wiley is invigorated by a licence to speak his mind. Print edition only
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8.0
35832
8.0 |
Mojo
His best yet. Print edition only
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8.0
35872
8.0 |
The Observer
Despite the short gap since his last album, this feels like Wiley's strongest offering to date
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8.0
35817
8.0 |
The Skinny
A coherent, intermittently hilarious, sonically adventurous album
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8.0
35929
8.0 |
BBC
A haphazard, sometimes ridiculous, but often impressively inventive new set
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8.0
35966
8.0 |
NME
He is predictably unpredictable, an innovator who doesn't take himself too seriously. Print edition only
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8.0
36040
8.0 |
The Guardian
There's genuine humour here – another factor that keeps Wiley a class apart
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8.0
36059
8.0 |
The Quietus
An LP that equals the incendiary nature of his freestyle delivery: a stern, surreal and evolutionary forward bounce
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8.0
36180
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Maintaining the boxer’s punch of his original nocturnal narratives while softening the edges with reggae grooves and crowd-pleasing dance-floor dynamics that could be borrowed from Underworld, Wiley finally sounds like he is having fun
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8.0
36358
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
Back in 2007, which in Wiley years is an eon ago, he released an album called Playtime Is Over – Evolve Or Be Extinct makes it sound like playtime has officially started up again. Good
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8.0
39109
8.0 |
Pop Matters
Succeeds as both a collection of songs for public use—dancing, drinking, celebrating Christmas, protesting customs officials—and as a complex portrait of the artist who’s sacrificed his sleep and sanity to create them
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7.5
38009
7.5 |
hhv.de mag
It’s his most focused and, at the same time, most diversified album, so far
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7.2
36137
7.2 |
Pitchfork
One of his best, a mostly single-minded return to the on-the-mic fierceness and computers-go-tribal rhythms that first made his name
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7.0
35955
7.0 |
music OMH
For all its innovativity and dogged determinism, the album’s latter moments just can’t compete with the top heavy appeal of its opening tracks
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6.0
35829
6.0 |
Uncut
A little reflection might pay dividends. Print edition only
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6.0
35877
6.0 |
Clash
Wiley’s latest cobbling together is infuriatingly irresistible
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6.0
36184
6.0 |
AU Magazine
A new Wiley album will always harbour a few gems. This one is no different
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6.0
36290
6.0 |
This Is Fake DIY
The two freshest beats come not from Wiley but from guest producer Mark Pritchard
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6.0
36296
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
With the growing amount of fresh blood entering the grime genre he perhaps needs to think on that album title a little and find something fresh
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6.0
36099
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Over rudimentary backing beats, in that "ya feel me?" accent, his humour often hits the spot
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4.0
38140
4.0 |
Spin
Too forced and uncomfortable, as though he figured he'd evolve if he just over-thought it enough
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