Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Critic Score
Based on 31 reviews
2010 Ratings: #74 / 924
Year End Rank: #35
User Score
Based on 224 ratings
2010 Rank: #67
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CRITIC REVIEWS

85
Pitchfork
The influential singer-songwriter returns after many years with a powerful album that mixes spoken word, folk, and blues over roughed-up sonics.
willowsfields
73

I'm New Here is a very vulnerable and honest album. On here, Gil Scott-Heron talks about many different subjects relating to his life, his upbringing, and his inevitable death. The songwriting here is some of the best I've heard in a while, and Gil's voice, while it will probably be off-putting to many, just gave everything he said so much more weight and power to me. He sounded like a man who'd really lived a full life, he sounds wise and full of experience. While I do think that ... read more

LZGray
80

Wow, this was powerful. It's short, but it packs a lot of punch. Really gets to the heart of Mr. Scott-Heron as an artist, as an addict, and as a flawed human being, with dark, minimal production and unsettling melodic design. Really a haunting character portrait of an aged legend, and one that is only finer with time.

Whynot
100

Probably as many of us I ended listening this record after I heard the 2020 version from Makaya McCraven. Actually it is not an easy task to try to really appreciate the beauty and simplicity of the original version, specially taking into account the amounts of musical arrangements that McCraven putted all over the new one.
Anyway, after spinning this one a couple of times and try to really breath and listening what I have here, I finally noticed that the major triumph of the original version ... read more

dvidddd
63

Una minimalista despedida

hantu222
78

Favorites: New York Is Killing Me, On Coming from a Broken Home, Pt. 2, Me and the Devil

Least Favorites:_______

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Royko1235
80

Short but very powerful. Gil Scott Heron will always be a legend

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