Highest Recent Ratings

Albums to watch

Tetsuo & Youth

Lupe Fiasco

Tetsuo & Youth

Fifth album from the Chicago rapper, with guest appearances from Guy Sebastian and Ty Dolla $ign

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Atlantic
UK Release date
17/01/2015
US Release date
20/01/2015
Listen on Spotify
Related Links
Last.fm Myspace Wikipedia
Share
Share |

  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    The album is the best Lupe Fiasco has been in years, mostly because it forgoes the previously self-imposed mandates of his savior complex in favor of a balanced view from both intrapersonal and interpersonal lenses
    Read Review

  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Strolls its way into greatness after a couple listens and wipes out all the bitter aftertaste of Lasers as if that misstep never happened
    Read Review

  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Third, fourth, and fifth listens are demanded to appreciate its scope
    Read Review

  4. 7.5 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Sometimes subtle, sometimes not, Lupe is a man with a lot to say and a lot of ways of doing it successfully, without pretentiousness
    Read Review

  5. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    Lupe has always been most exciting when he's somewhere outside his comfort zone
    Read Review

  6. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    A dense pound cake of metaphorical run-arounds and mediocre beats
    Read Review

  7. 6.9 |   Paste Magazine

    On the whole, Tetsuo and Youth is a shaky album by a newly energized Lupe Fiasco
    Read Review

  8. 6.0 |   The Music

    A solid fifth album from one of modern rap’s most important voices
    Read Review

  9. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Kicking and pushing against the rap status quo
    Read Review

  10. 5.8 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Lupe’s voice is the most distinct part of this album
    Read Review

  11. Back to main chart

blog comments powered by Disqus
buy it at amazon download it from itunes

Watch it

Roll over video for more options

Hear it

Preview & download it

Lupe Fiasco: Tetsuo & Youth

  • Download full album for just £9.49
  • 1. Summer £0.99
  • 2. Mural £0.99
  • 3. Blur My Hands (feat. Guy Sebastian) £0.99
  • 4. Dots & Lines £0.99
  • 5. Fall £0.99
  • 6. Prisoner 1 & 2 (feat. Ayesha Jaco) £0.99
  • 7. Body Of Work (feat. Troi & Terrace Martin) £0.99
  • 8. Little Death (feat. Nikki Jean) £0.99
  • 9. No Scratches (feat. Nikki Jean) £0.99
  • 10. Winter £0.99
  • 11. Chopper (feat. Billy Blue, Buk of Psychodrama, Trouble, Trae Tha Truth, Fam Lay & Glasses Malone) £0.99
  • 12. Deliver £0.99
  • 13. Madonna (And Other Mothers In The Hood) [feat. Nikki Jean] £0.99
  • 14. Adoration Of The Magi (feat. Crystal "Røvél" Torres) £0.99
  • 15. They.Resurrect.Over.New. (feat. Ab-Soul & Troi) £0.99
  • 16. Spring £0.99
  • Service provided by 7Digital

Latest Reviews

Caroline Polachek  Pang

The former Chairlift lead singer returns with an impressive pop record, her first to bear her name Paste Magazine

Neil Young & Crazy Horse  Colorado

He's been banging on about climate change for more than three decades and – well – maybe we should have listened to Neil Young, whose rage is palpable on his 39th album NME

Battles  Juice B Crypts

Juice B Crypts often feels like it’s treading water, a band making busywork out of something that still has the potential to excite The 405

More reviews

All-time top 10

Since we've been around, that is. So, the highest-rated albums from the past eight years or so. Rankings are calculated to two decimal places.

  1. 9.3

    Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly

  2. 9.1

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Ghosteen

  3. 9.1

    Kendrick Lamar Damn.

  4. 9.1

    D'Angelo And The Vanguard Black Messiah

  5. 8.9

    Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree

  6. 8.9

    Frank Ocean Channel Orange

  7. 8.8

    Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown

  8. 8.8

    Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

  9. 8.8

    Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker

  10. 8.8

    Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell

See full list