The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence)
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| Studio album by P.M. Dawn | ||||
| Released | March 23, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Pop, hip hop, pop-rap | |||
| Length | 60:12 | |||
| Label | Gee Street, Island | |||
| Producer | P.M. Dawn | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− |
| Los Angeles Times |  |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 8/10 |
| The Village Voice | A |
The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence) is the second studio album by American hip hop duo P.M. Dawn. It was released on March 23, 1993, by Gee Street and Island Records. Although some critics considered it less successful than the duo's first record,The Bliss Album...? received positive reviews and produced two hit singles—"I'd Die Without You" and "Looking Through Patient Eyes". It was voted the 12th best album of 1993 in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.
According to music critic David Browne, The Bliss Album...? continues and expands on the mentally stimulating hip hop of the duo's debut album.Entertainment Weekly said the duo "perfected" the style of pop-rap with their second album, while Spin magazine's J. Matthew Hanna called the music "hip hop pop". The magazine's Craig Marks described the record as "pop nirvana".AllMusic's Steve Huey wrote that it emphasized its predecessor's urban soul sounds, favored melodies rather than raps, and featured both pop and aggressive rap songs. In the opinion of Tom Breihan from Stereogum, "the album serves as an absolute rejection of rap-music values that was, at the time, coming from a group that existed, more or less, within the context of the rap music establishment. It was one big soft, gushy negation".
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