Black Up
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| Studio album by Shabazz Palaces | ||||
| Released | June 28, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Experimental hip hop | |||
| Length | 36:01 | |||
| Label | Sub Pop | |||
| Producer | Knife Knights | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| The Guardian | |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| MSN Music | A− |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.8/10 |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | 7/10 |
Black Up is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Shabazz Palaces. It was released on June 28, 2011 in the United States on Sub Pop. The album was produced by Knife Knights.plcrs at Gunbeat Serenade Studio in Outplace Palacelands."
Black Up received widespread critical acclaim; many commented on the experimental song structures and intricate lyricism. Review aggregator Metacritic gave the album a normalised rating of 83, indicating "universal acclaim". Metacritic included Black Up in its "Midyear Report: The Best Music of 2011 So Far."
In his review for MSN Music, music critic Robert Christgau said that, misleading titles notwithstanding, the album "improves mightily when the volume is high enough to break the beats into components so they're impossible to ignore."Jon Pareles, writing in The New York Times, viewed the album as proof that hip hop "still has an audacious progressive fringe."Kitty Empire of The Observer wrote that, although it is not game-changing, Black Up resonate with listeners in a way the conventional hip hop cannot because each track is "lean and muscular, never losing sight of the fact that hip-hop should writhe inexorably forward."
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