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While she may not aspire to such award-ceremony heights, Telefone is a unique project that points to even greater things for Noname in the future.
83
Telefone shows a great sense of promise and complex beauty, Noname using her art to salve wounds — both her own and others.
80
Chicago's Noname delivers one of this year's most heartwarming and positive mixtapes, backing her earnest rap style with beautifully jazzy instrumentals.
80
On Telefone, she pours all the joy and devastation we glimpsed in her various guest spots with artists like Chance, Mick Jenkins, and Saba into a rich, somber, and incredibly intimate album.
80
With that same steely determination injected into every track, ‘Telefone’ ensures that Noname won’t be anonymous much longer.
75
this very specific choice of sound contributes to the project's constant tiptoeing between trauma and calm, violence and peace, life and death - Telefone grows on you progressively, going from easily enjoyable to hauntingly beautiful.
70
Noname unfurls thoughts about a life where love and freedom are in the distance and too many friends are "casket-pretty." It's some of the year's most thought-provoking hip-hop.
This tape did for me what coloring book seemed to do for everyone else, some of the most blissful and summery hip-hop i've heard in a while, it's a total grower too.
EDIT: honestly there is so little wrong with this tape, it's all just so fucking lovely.
wow... thank you BuffaloStaple. This is a fantastic post-TPAB project that gives me so many Erykah Badu vibes. Fantastic instrumentals, flows, and poetry
Wow, this was incredible. The electronic and jazz rap fusion of production style on this thing made every track extremely unique and exciting to hear, NoName's lyricism on this rivals that of the greatest rappers of all time, her versatility when it comes to mixing beautiful sounding soul singing with amazing sounding rap flows, and the chemistry she and the feature artists, most notably Phoelix, have to seemlessly add on to each artist's verses are all just a few reasons I loved this album and ... read more
Such a warm and jazzy sounding tape, this should have definitely gotten more recognition
Just a better, jazzier version of Room 25. Basically everything else applies to this album as well.
Favorite Tracks: same thing as Room 25, probably the track with Ravyn Lenae
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Track List
| 1 | Yesterday 3:09 | 89 |
| 2 | Sunny Duet 2:42 feat. TheMIND | 82 |
| 3 | Diddy Bop 3:28 | 93 |
| 4 | All I Need 4:00 feat. Xavier Omär | 78 |
| 5 | Reality Check 3:03 feat. Eryn Allen Kane, Akenya | 85 |
| 6 | Freedom Interlude 3:19 | 76 |
| 7 | Casket Pretty 1:50 | 82 |
| 8 | Forever 3:38 feat. Ravyn Lenae, Joseph Chilliams | 84 |
| 9 | Bye Bye Baby 2:49 | 82 |
| 10 | Shadow Man 5:11 | 91 |
Total Length: 33 minutes
Year End Lists
| #3 | / | Dazed |
| #5 | / | Pigeons & Planes |
| #8 | / | Nerdist |
| #9 | / | Time Out New York |
| #22 | / | NPR Music |
| #25 | / | Complex |
| #26 | / | BLARE |
| #26 | / | For The Win |
| #26 | / | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| #27 | / | Pitchfork |
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Added on: August 1, 2016