20.9487
$11.62
Mojo (Publisher) (p.119) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Ear-worthy blues cuts mainly recorded by Bob Shad for his 'Sittin' In With' label..."11.61852
$7.71
11.61852
$17.80
11.61852
$13.90
11.61852
$9.78
11.61852
$9.43
10.92599
$14.32
10.29531
$17.40
10.02271
$12.28
Down Beat (8/93, p.40) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...Somewhere between Jackie McLean and Bobby Watson lies Gary Bartz, a somewhat forgotten man from the '70s who has come back strongly to stake his claim in the '90s with this impassioned disc..."8.725639
$41.03
Alternative Press (1/95, pp.58-59) - "...FLA have not lost their strong sense of chord progression, and their choruses often mix these synthetic hooks to the front, while song verses and instrumental breaks usually give the guitars top billing...heavy bass beats are often augmented with a touch of hiphop..."Option (11-12/94, pp.116-117) - "...On MILLENIUM...the duo works with third-person detachment, shaping a suffusion of samples and electronic rhythms...into ten tracks that are rich in sound and lean in composition..."8.692581
$15.18
8.421597
$14.98
JazzTimes (8/00, p.126) - "...The level of interpretation is very high throughout....The soloists are interesting and sometimes arresting, and the level of group interaction is consistently engrossing."Mojo (Publisher) (4/01, p.107) - "...A fine-honed tribute to his elaborate, intimate music..."7.989839
$12.26
7.950844
$8.10
7.187414
$13.20
Rolling Stone (p.53) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The beats, produced by Southern luminaries like Drumma Boy and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, are full of imperious synthesizer pageantry, rumbling bass and frenetic percussion."7.159078
$14.01
7.159078
$11.25
6.709529
$17.74
6.709529
$11.77
Dirty Linen (p.55) - "[Cleaves] continues to paint a sorrowful world of loss, failed chances, and heartbreak....Set to well-crafted pop-folk arrangements..."6.709529
$15.19
6.709529
$20.59
6.709529
$15.52
6.467067
$8.93
Spin (5/03, p.116) - "...Boldly nonlinear, ideologically sharp rhyming. He slaughters your rap idols, then chuckles..." - Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly (3/7/03, p.73) - "...Beans drops deft poetry with the fastest flow this side of Bizzy Bone..." - Rating: A-6.467067
$19.83
6.467067
$5.76
6.467067
$9.32
CMJ (p.45) - "[A] set of timeless, occasionally fiery pop-rock stylings."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[An] album rivaling their late-'70s heyday ranging from the pop-punk opener 'Drunk In Babylon'...to the melancholy ballad 'Other Side Of The World'..."6.467067
$6.89
6.467067
$9.43
6.467067
$10.17
6.467067
$14.91
6.467067
$10.50
6.467067
$12.05
6.196083
$12.74
5.727262
$19.87
5.727262
$7.83
5.727262
$7.55
Rolling Stone (p.53) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The beats, produced by Southern luminaries like Drumma Boy and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, are full of imperious synthesizer pageantry, rumbling bass and frenetic percussion."5.727262
$30.19
Rolling Stone (p.53) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "The beats, produced by Southern luminaries like Drumma Boy and J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, are full of imperious synthesizer pageantry, rumbling bass and frenetic percussion."5.727262
$11.96
5.727262
$8.14
5.727262
$18.25
5.618606
$22.96
Alternative Press (3/01, p.79) - 4 out of 5 - "...Unique and special....the music is strikingly honest and personal in mood and tone....washing you in a cleansing rain of beautiful tears."5.615777
$14.67
Rolling Stone (p.57) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "SHIPS turns the usual joyous cacophony up a notch, bringing together a busload of collaborators who fill out his cartoon-voiced Jesus-powered vision with oboes recorders, electric guitars and lots of hand claps."Entertainment Weekly (p.80) - "Smith still finds something oddly charming in his sprawling chiaroscuro of sound, and a sort of childlike joy in its execution." -- Grade: BMojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Led by the vein-popping, pig-squealing vocals of Daniel Smith, Danielson's large folk orchestra parades through SHIPS like worker drones frenetically servicing a queen bee....[The] music holds a refreshingly naive charm."5.589781
$12.69
5.582675
$13.03
5.563784
$18.21
5.563784
$7.71
5.563784
$16.90
5.367623
$10.21
