The Good Fight (Oddisee album)

The Good Fight
Studio album by Oddisee
Released May 5, 2015 (2015-05-05)
Genre Hip hop
Length 45:59
Label Mello Music Group
Producer Oddisee
Oddisee chronology
Tangible Dream
(2013)Tangible Dream2013		 The Good Fight
(2015)		 The Iceberg
(2017)The Iceberg2017
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Boston Globefavorable[3]
Exclaim!8/10[4]
HipHopDX4.5/5[5]
Pitchfork7.3/10[6]

The Good Fight is the seventh studio album by American hip hop artist Oddisee. It was released via Mello Music Group on May 5, 2015.[7] Music videos were created for "Counter-Clockwise"[8] and "Belong to the World".[9]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Good Fight received an average score of 80% based on 8 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Marcus J. Moore of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.3 out of 10 and stated that "The Good Fight exudes a sense of artistic freedom not heard on Oddisee's previous releases."[6] David Jeffries of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "inspired, infectious, and artistically grand."[2]

In 2015, HipHopDX named it one of the "30 Best Underground Hip Hop Albums Since 2000".[10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."That's Love"4:05
2."Want Something Done"3:26
3."Contradiction's Maze" (featuring Maimouna Youseff)4:15
4."Counter-Clockwise"3:56
5."First Choice"3:47
6."Belong to the World"4:26
7."A List of Withouts"4:16
8."Book Covers" (featuring Nick Hakim)3:24
9."Meant It When I Said It"4:14
10."Fight Delays"0:51
11."What They'll Say" (featuring Gary Clarke Jr. and Maimouna Youseff)4:31
12."Worse Before Better" (featuring Tranqill)4:45

Charts

Chart Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[11] 11
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[12] 41
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[13] 33

References

  1. 1 2 "The Good Fight by Oddisee". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Jeffries, David. "Oddisee - The Good Fight". AllMusic. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Benbow, Julian (May 5, 2015). "Oddisee, 'The Good Fight'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cowie, Del F. (May 8, 2015). "Oddisee - The Good Fight". Exclaim!. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Grant, Andre (May 19, 2015). "Oddisee - The Good Fight". HipHopDX. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Moore, Marcus J. (May 1, 2015). "Oddisee: The Good Fight". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Nostro, Lauren (March 12, 2015). "Premiere: Oddisee Drops "That's Love," Announces New Album". Complex. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Weiner, Natalie (April 6, 2015). "Exclusive: Watch Oddisee Turn New York 'Counter-Clockwise' in His New Video". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Walsh, Peter (July 27, 2015). "Oddisee Walks Around By His Lonesome in "Belong To The World" Video". XXL. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ "The 30 Best Underground Hip Hop Albums Since 2000". HipHopDX. August 26, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Oddisee - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Oddisee - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Oddisee - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.