One Nation (Hype Williams album)
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| Studio album by Hype Williams | ||||
| Released | 14 March 2011 | |||
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| Length | 44:14 | |||
| Label | Hippos in Tanks | |||
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| Metacritic | 70/100 |
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| Drowned in Sound | 7/10 |
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| Pitchfork | 6.4/10 |
One Nation is an album by British musical duo Hype Williams. It was released on 14 March 2011 through Hippos in Tanks record label.
On the record's sound, Pitchfork critic Paul Thompson wrote: "At its best, One Nation sounds like a beat tape left to crackle for a decade in somebody's garage, a kind of post-Chronic spin on one of those far-out late 70s dub-inflected collaborative krautrock LPs." It has been compared to the works of Oneohtrix Point Never, the Skaters and Ariel Pink, and has been characterized as drawing influences from G-funk, synthpop, horror movie soundtracks, classic R&B and Chicago house.Self-Titled Mag called One Nation "as blunted as hypnagogic pop gets." The album also features spoken word fragments
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 8 reviews.Drowned in Sound critic Noel Gardner described Hype Williams as "a brace of obnoxious, always-switched-on jokers whose music has actual depth and beauty, as much as their M.O. might try to disguise it." Gardner further commented: "If you had to single out something as being symbolic of 2011, you could do a lot worse than this album."The Guardian's Caspar Llewellyn Smith stated: "And while, for some, two spoken-word tracks – Untitled and Untitled (And Your Batty's So Round) – may bring to mind nothing so much as Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), others may find it all strangely addictive." Tim Chester of NME thought that the record lacks cohesion and "the songwriting spark of Ariel Pink", eventually writing: "Like making a time capsule and filling it full of junk, '‘One Nation''s oddball ephemera might seem more intriguing to good citizens of the future than it does to us."Pitchfork critic Paul Thompson wrote: "Despite a certain stoney splay, there's a weird solemnity to One Nation that belies the presence of these mood enhancers, an unsettling ominousness even in its floatier moments."
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