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Mar 1, 2016Although the bulk of the album oscillates between sarcasm and sincerity, the most fully realized songs transcend that spectrum entirely.
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Feb 26, 2016Unexplored avenues, Nutriblended genre combinations, and left-field pop gold have always been Santigold’s bag, and though the price tag here may be 99¢, she’s never sounded freer.
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Feb 26, 2016Though 99 Cents is Santigold's most accessible work yet, it feels like the mainstream meeting White on her terms rather than vice versa, and the results are often irresistible.
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Feb 25, 2016Her third album blends styles in a way that thrillingly recalls the kitchen-sink endeavors of the early new wave era.
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Feb 25, 2016The whole album drips with Caribbean zest, the tropical bounce of 'Can't Get Enough Of Myself' and the pumping 'Rendezvous Girl' balanced by eccentric slowies such as the oddball power ballad 'Run The Races'. There's plenty more too, candied but with class and pop bite.
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Feb 23, 201699 Cents doesn’t exactly deliver the discussion on commodity and the self promised on the cover. But Santigold have assembled a fine package, one which showcases White and her undeniable swagger.
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Feb 11, 2016Santigold is at her best when the production behind her has plenty of Caribbean-inflected bounce but throughout 99¢, she proves that she deserves more success than she gets.
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MojoJan 8, 2016This album pop-pops with pleasure, sunshine and subversion. [Feb 2016, p.96]
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Feb 26, 2016It seems as though becoming a mother in the interim has improved Santigold’s outlook on the world. The only problem is, she sounds far more interesting when she’s exploring the darkness.
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MagnetFeb 12, 2016Thankfully Santigold has focused on quality, not quantity, as her third LP makes evident from the very start. [No. 128, p.61]
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Feb 24, 201699¢ is slick, soulful and full of the imaginative use of reference points that she is so accomplished at bending to her will. It’s by no means as immediate as Santogold, but its pleasures are plentiful if you give it the time it deserves.
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Feb 24, 2016She and her collaborators--who include platinum hip-hop producer Hit-Boy, Swedish dance-pop maestro Patrick Berger, TV on the Radio's Dav Sitek and ex-Vampire Weekender Rostam Batmanglij--create a sound that's immaculately haute but also playful and warm.
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UncutJan 8, 2016Santigold never flags in her campaign to capture the dwindling attention spans of modern pop fans. [Feb 2016, p.79]
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Feb 23, 2016The album is presented as a consumerist critique, intentionally blurring the line between artist and product, but the quality of the songs varies too widely to pull off an actual concept album.
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Feb 29, 2016While 99¢ manages to find its footing at a number of points, it never manages to prop itself up as a whole.
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Jan 22, 2016The tracklist starts to lose steam a little towards the end, but 99 cents is best experienced as a collection of singles, anyway, and it's another worthy addition to Santigold's hugely varied repertoire. [Jan/Feb 2016, p.58]
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Mar 2, 2016It’s initially fun to play spot-the-references, but in the best moments the sounds are harder to pin down.
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Mar 1, 2016The music itself sounds a little more factory-made than White may have intended.
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Feb 29, 2016Remove the four or so songs that never seem to do more than bubble happily in an unambitious realm of chanted hooks and rehearsed quirkiness, and the result is an album fit for anyone with the slightest predisposition for fun.
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Feb 29, 2016Some of the sparkle fades as the album goes on, with Run the Races and Outside the War especially ponderous, but this is another sure-footed set aimed as much at the head as at the hips.
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Feb 25, 2016Tolerance will vary for her reedy and slightly hectoring voice, and there are some this’ll-do melodies with no logic or engine. But she still hints at being the omnivorous pop star we need.
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Feb 24, 201699¢ is an album buoyed by its sonic playfulness, but which fails to shake its playlist sensibility--entertaining, engaging but only occasionally leaving a lasting impression.
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Feb 11, 2016More often than hitting a sweet spot in between, the songs here are overly busy (like “Big Boss”) or short on ideas (the by-the-numbers “Before the Fire” and the psych-rock “Outside the War”), and the album's title turns into an unfortunate allusion to a warehouse stocked to the brim with cheap toys, none built to last.
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Feb 24, 2016The fickle genres of 99¢ not only see Santigold challenging the rules of pop, but bettering herself. In writing for others, Santigold grows a backbone that defines her unapologetically bold sound, even if she doesn’t push her lyrics as far as she does the music.
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Mar 21, 2016For every song that I replay, there’s another that I skip.
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Q MagazineJan 8, 2016Any playfulness surrounding the album's titular pound-shop themes quickly evaporates amid a sound so spacious and tune-free as to border on emptiness. [Feb 2016, p.116]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 30
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Mixed: 4 out of 30
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Negative: 3 out of 30
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