Sick!
by Earl Sweatshirt
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 79 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 79
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 79
  3. Negative: 6 out of 79
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  1. Menios
    Jan 14, 2022
    5
    it was not that great for me. apart from "vision" and "tabula rasa" the rest of the album seemed a little too chaotic to me, lacking cohesion and purpose.
  2. viperxtj61x
    Jan 14, 2022
    5
    My first look into Earl Sweatshirt and honestly it's a pretty solid album. I guess my problems with it though is that a lot of the songs are rather short and Earl comes off as lazy on some ot them. Other than that, this is a solid first impression
  3. ReubenIsAGod
    Feb 13, 2022
    6
    I think to be really into this album, u gotta love the more experimental and abstract bursts of creativity and conscious rhyme that Earl is influenced by. Things like MF Doom, A Tribe Called Quest, MIKE, Billy Woods etc. I found this album a lot more catchy, chaotic and enjoyable than 'some rap songs.' But I also found it more sparse and somewhat incomplete. There isn't much hip-hop/rapI think to be really into this album, u gotta love the more experimental and abstract bursts of creativity and conscious rhyme that Earl is influenced by. Things like MF Doom, A Tribe Called Quest, MIKE, Billy Woods etc. I found this album a lot more catchy, chaotic and enjoyable than 'some rap songs.' But I also found it more sparse and somewhat incomplete. There isn't much hip-hop/rap out there that quiet sounds like this, that dense/scarce and rusty sound. (almost industrial) It's unique is somewhat messy. I still dug this album, tho. I wish this maybe had more to it, tho.… Expand
  4. AntonMit
    Feb 22, 2022
    6
    It's OK, great beats, good lyrics but some flow issues so i feel it's overrated.
  5. AShinyG1ratina
    Jun 21, 2022
    6
    Some of Earl's best songs yet are in here. However, that's paired with some of the most boring songs he's ever made (I'm looking at you Titanic and Sick!). The lyrics aren't as immediately impactful as SRS either. And the most important thing that makes this album worse than SRS is the lack of a "Riot!" to tie what otherwise just sounds like a compilation or mixtape together.

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. RapReviews.com
    May 10, 2022
    80
    Even when you don’t understand his choices, you can’t argue with them, because you know they are coming from a place of thoughtful artistic creativity.
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  2. The Wire
    Mar 30, 2022
    80
    A few of these ten songs burble with easy rhythms – “Lye” rocks with crunchy, prog rock horns looped by The Alchemist. But overall, the tone of SICK! feels contemplative, slowly unfurling with repeated listens even as Earl crams over 20 minutes of thoughts into the work, with no hooks to leaven the intensity. [Mar 2022, p.43]
  3. No Ripcord
    Jan 26, 2022
    80
    This is the most esoteric, thinking-person’s cloud rap album I’ve heard since Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up, and I mean that in the most endearing, complimentary way possible.
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