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Oct 3, 20111977 may be a blip for this artist in regard to its genesis, but for anyone other than his ex-wife (and perhaps himself) it's an utter pleasure.
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Oct 3, 2011As a piece of music, it eschews the richness and lushness of those albums, a sound that's felt on the verge of becoming stale. 1977 could be called a palate cleanser, but it's way too torn-up to be that.
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Dec 31, 2012Beyond their immediate allure, the tracks here benefit from a profusion of weird touches that elevate and separate them from boilerplate exercises.
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Oct 5, 2011These songs aren't much more than melodic rants, but that's enough for Mr. Nash, who's never been a forceful singer, but whose talent for cramming oddball twists into R&B remains unparalleled.
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Oct 3, 2011Nash doesn't seem like he's willing to fully own up to his shortcomings and take a full and deep-enough personal-via-lyrical inventory. It works against him on 1977, but the music, as usual, is on point.
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Oct 3, 2011That leaves us with a placeholder project while Dream sorts out some contractual "issues" with Def Jam over his delayed fourth album Diary of a Madman, and frankly I'll take this placeholder over 90% of R&B's official projects.
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Oct 3, 2011If the album weren't free it would definitely be worth paying for the aforementioned highlights alone, with none of the filler seeming disappointing so much as more of the same.
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013It's a solid album. [Mar 2013, p.99]
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Oct 18, 2011The album seems like it's full of the slurred, narcissistic half-truths that lurk at the bottom of a shot glass.
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Oct 3, 2011Awkward and embarrassing, the mixtape as a whole feels like a PR move to get you to listen to Nash-free embedded song Silly by new protégé Casha.