How I Got Over (album)
How I Got Over is the ninth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, which was released on June 22, 2010 on Def Jam Recordings. The production was mainly done by the band members Black Thought, Questlove, Dice Raw and Rick Friedrich. The sound of the album can be described as very quiet and is a mixture of hip- hop with soul, jazz, indie and Gospel represents the lyrical subject matter includes, but is existential ideas, issues of modern society and Midlife Crisis.
The album rose, with 51,000 copies sold in its first week in the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at # 6 a. How I Got Over, was mostly well received because of its versatile style and the profound lyrics, music critics. It was nominated for the Grammy Awards in 2011 for Best Rap Album category.
Background
2008 announced The Roots, Rising Down that would be their last studio album. This statement was made some time later revoked by Questlove by a new album, How I Got Over announced via Twitter, which should be released in summer 2009. The album was recorded in the period of their employment as a tape of the show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The publication was postponed again and again to the back so the album was finally issued until 22 June 2010, over a year after the originally scheduled release.
Music
The sound of the album as a whole is very quiet, which is characterized by mostly low BPM numbers. The choruses are sung almost without exception, considered why David Hilzendegen of laut.de the album as " a declaration of love to singer / songwriter and indie pop ." Form is characteristic of the " distinctive drumming " from Questlove, also is almost entirely dispensed with electronic aids, so " rich, clear and recorded live sounds [ ... ] the backbone of the album".
Reception
Commercial success
The album rose, with 51,000 copies sold in its first week in the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at # 6 a, which is the fifth top- ten finish of the Roots on this list. Furthermore, the album was recorded third-place finishes on the Billboard R & B / Hip- Hop Albums and Rap Albums charts and a fourth place in the digital album charts. In Canada, it reached number 14 on the Top 100 album chart, number three in Switzerland, number 33 in the Netherlands, number 35 in New Zealand and France place 117 in the Top 150 album charts. In Germany the album in the Top 100 Albums Charts reached the 70th place.
Criticism
The album was recorded very positive by the press, the website Metacritic calculated an average score of 86 % from 23 reviews. Björn Bischoff of Plattentests.de praises the good successful integration of guest artists, as have " the guests of the album [ ... ] in every song all the time in the world " is an organic sound, also do " is spreading, like him around the turn of the millennium pretty much every head nodding brought "by which he tendency of the album to the " praises " return to roots of the band. He gives the album 8 out of 10 possible points. Once, according to David Hilzendegen of laut.de, the predecessor Rising Down " the mass of guests helped her rest to obfuscate any characteristic ", but in How I Got Over " in contrast to the previous [ ... ] the features are in integrates a plate with a clear structure so that the successor despite many guests no subliminal compilation smell clinging ". He forgives 5 out of 5 possible points. The Roots were " arrived at the most tidy, abgeklärtesten album of their career " with this album, says Daniel Gerhardt of Visions.de, so know " How I Got Over [ ... ] no excitement ", but is also reflected in " a few furious verses of Vorsprecher Black Thought [ ... ] the old Roots - bite ". With the realization, " how exciting can Hip-Hop be if he is at peace with himself " he is 9 out of 12 points.
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- Data from okayplayer.com