Age Against the Machine
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| Studio album by Goodie Mob | ||||
| Released | August 27, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2007–2013 Gee Jam Recording Studio Port Antonio, Jamaica Odds On Recording Studio Henderson, Nevada 17 Hertz Recording Studio North Hollywood, California |
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| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 47:40 | |||
| Label | The Right Records, Primary Wave, Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Big Fraze, Cee Lo Green, Caviar, Floyd The Locsmif, The Grey Area, Get Cool, Jack Splash, Malay (producer), Kawan "KP" Prather, OZ, QRock, Young Fyre, Zeferiah Gonzalez | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
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| The A.V. Club | B |
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| New York Daily News | |
| PopMatters | 7/10 |
| Paste | 6.9/10 |
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Age Against the Machine is the fifth studio album by Atlanta-based Hip hop group Goodie Mob. The album was released on August 27, 2013, by The Right Records, Primary Wave and Atlantic Records. It is their first studio album in nine years. The album features guest appearances from T.I., Big Rube and Janelle Monáe, among others. The album was supported by one official single— "Special Education", along with the promotional single "Fight to Win". Age Against the Machine received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album debuted at number 30 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 13,000 copies in its first week of release.
The four members appeared on stage together on October 1, 2006, following a Gnarls Barkley show, stating that they were back together and on good terms. They officially announced they were working on an album and the group's reunion November 19, 2007, on Atlanta's V-103 radio station. On September 19, 2009, Goodie Mob performed for the first official reunion concert at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. In November 2010, Cee Lo Green stated that the group was ten songs into the album, saying:
"We’ve started kind of unofficially, We’ve got at least ten or fifteen songs as Goodie Mob. But you know, a lot of the times when you’re recording, the first few songs hardly ever get used, so we’re just getting started. Now that [The] Lady Killer is done, and I’m out of that space, I can give my undivided attention to Goodie Mob and make sure that that’s seen all the way through."
In June 2011, CeeLo Green stated that he would be recording a new Goodie Mob album before recording the third Gnarls Barkley album, saying:
"Let me clear this up now, that comment was made very casually I’m actually planning on completing a Goodie Mob album first, So I am working on both of them, in a very calm moderate kind of way. You know we absolutely have the creative drive to do Goodie Mob, and we already started Gnarls Barkley about a year go so I’d like to right that statement."
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