Dying in Stereo
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| Studio album by Northern State | ||||
| Released | June 3, 2002 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop music | |||
| Length | 32:37 | |||
| Label |
Startime International Columbia |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Drowned in Sound | 1/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B+) |
| NME | (6/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (0.8/10) |
| Popmatters | (mixed) |
| Robert Christgau | (A) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin | (B) |
Dying in Stereo is the second release by New York City-based alternative hip hop group Northern State. It was first released on June 3, 2002 on Startime International, and then re-released in May 2003 by Columbia Records. It has been described variously as an EP and a "mini-album". Nevertheless, it is usually described as their official debut album, since their first release was just a self-released four-song demo. This led PopMatters to describe it as a "litmus test" that will determine "what will happen to white, female, feminist rappers, who aren’t pencil-thin or supermodel pretty."
The album received generally favorable reviews from critics. The exceptions to this trend included Pitchfork Media, which gave it a scathing review in which the reviewer, Michael Idov, described the album as "the most heinous hip-hop release since MC Skat Kat went solo", and Drowned in Sound, which described Northern State as "a pointless hybrid of the Beastie Boys and *N-tyce (from the female wing of the Wu)." Many other critics also compared Dying in Stereo's music to that of the Beastie Boys.
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