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71
So as you draw in messages that are more atmospheric than direct, there's still the allure of soaking in this music as music, all those contrasting voices turning comfortable truisms into uncomfortable knots.
11y
70
With a sound that’s one-third punk, one-third underground and one-third Yeezus, Doomtree’s All Hands is a work of lyrical importance covered up by synth notes and drum crashes, its messages left to be decoded by their fans.
11y
70
Entering their 14th year, the collective melds and splays in all the right ways, each deejay and emcee distinctive enough to have carried successful solo projects outside the crew, but with a pack-mentality commitment to the greater glory of each track.
11y
58
All Hands may be better than many group hip-hop albums, but the whole comes up as less than the sum of this collective’s talented parts.
11y
50
The result is an album that’s simply too confused to provide the kind of example Doomtree hopes it will and too taxing to properly enjoy.
11y
50
It's not a terrible record, but given the weight of expectation and the creativity we've seen from them before, this just feels like a step backwards.
11y
In an environment where "The Best ____ You've Never Heard Of" plays so well in algorithms, it's at least a little surprising that there's been no significant rediscovery of Doomtree these past couple years. This group was lightning in a bottle in the same way Wu-Tang was.
All in all, it's more flawed than I remember from high school but nearly all of it still hits.
A supergroup with 5 rappers with completely different distinctive rapping styles, and 2 producers can be hard to pull off. Luckily, Doomtree pulls this idea off incredibly well, with an album that could honestly go down as one of my favorite rap albums of the 2010s.
Favorite Tracks: Final Boss, Gray Duck, Mini Brute, The Bends, Generator, Marathon
Least favorite track: My Own Nation
Doomtree have been an underappreciated collective for years. This is a bit inconsistent, and at times sounds like freestyling, but runs circles around 90% of hip hop out there. Won't be everyone's cup of tea.
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Track List
| 1 | Final Boss 4:34 | |
| 2 | My Own Nation 3:37 | |
| 3 | .38 Airweight 4:10 | |
| 4 | Gray Duck 4:04 | 100 |
| 5 | Heavy Rescue 4:45 | |
| 6 | 80 on 80 4:32 | |
| 7 | Mini Brute 4:29 | |
| 8 | Cabin Killer 3:55 | |
| 9 | Beastface 4:02 | |
| 10 | The Bends 4:06 | 96 |
| 11 | Generator 3:36 | |
| 12 | Off in the Deep 3:40 | |
| 13 | Marathon 7:26 |
Total Length: 56 minutes
