★★★★★
There's a lot that can be said for Stefon Alexander, but one thing you can be rest assured on is the fact that you cannot box in what he does stylistically. This has been evident in most of his discography, but on his fourth album, "We Don't Even Live Here," not only does he prove time and time again why not to box him in, but he also makes his boldest statement yet as an artist, and that's why this album succeeds on many levels. Starting off with the drum-clatter of "Bumper", P.O...
- www.reviler.org
2012-12-13
★★★★★
For Rhymesayers Ent. releases, good things come in threes. Chasing the heels of Aesop Rock's "Skelethon" and Brother Ali's "Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color," P.O.S drops his first album since his 2009 breakthrough "Never Better." The Twin Cities rapper, best known for combining elements of hip hop and heavy metal, continues to push hip hop's boundaries, this time using heavy electronic sounds...
- rapreviews.com
2012-11-20
★★★★★
Summary: I don't wanna think about it, I just wanna get down. 1 of 1 thought this review was well written The most notable difference in 2012's P.O.S. is that he isn't taking himself as seriously, and this is big news considering 2009's Never Better. The album existed as a call to arms against pop culture, but in a tightly scripted manner. Each moment was precisely constructed, and every minute detail captured carefully...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-11-20
★★★★★
The title of Stefon Alexander's fourth LP as P.O.S. conveys a self-deprecation and sense of displacement that reminds me of the last time I saw him perform live. Unfortunately, due to recent health complications, it could be the last time I see him live for a while. He was added to the 2010 Coachella lineup only days before the festival took place and he was quite literally the first person to perform that weekend, arriving to a sparsely-filled tent of curious foreigners and confused onlookers...
- pitchfork.com
2012-11-20
★★★★★
It's of no doubt that P.O.S is angry, that he hates your high-class shit, that he hates materialism, "the game," NIKE, and convertibles. Angry is something that P.O.S does well; his hyper-anarchist delivery and lyricism is stronger than it has been on his previous three albums, which is saying something considering he's always been a strong rapper. The production is definitely stronger too, helped greatly by Kanye West's producer Andrew Dawson, a move both more conventional and strange...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2012-11-14
★★★★★
Halfway through this barn-burning record of fluid beats and sideways rhymes, you start to wonder why P.O.S. had a thing against-hip hop. Originally a Minneapolis punk rocker, P.O.S. dropped the grudge in 2004 and, thankfully--fortunately--gave rap a shot. We Don't Even Live Here is a masterful, aggressive record of intelligent rhymes and offbeat styles. "Get Down" goes dub, "Where We Land" features Bon Iver and "Wanted-Wasted" aims old-school. P.O.S...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-11-12
★★★★★
P.O.S. an artist who has done more than avoid being easily categorized, he has seemingly fought against it at every turn. With 2006's Audition he strung together thematic instrumentals and produced tracks like "Yeah Right" (featuring Travis Bos of Chariots), which would be more at home at a Dillinger Escape Plan show than at a Rock the Bells Concert...
- www.punknews.org
2012-11-08
★★★★★
Minneapolis emcee Stefan Alexander released 2009's Never Better when the wounds of the Bush administration were still fresh. The beats were as stark as Minnesota snow, his words fueled by leftist cynicism and a Midwestern, see-through-the-bullshit sensibility. Although Alexander (who records under the moniker P.O.S ) was never overtly political, he was clearly dissatisfied with the socio-political landscape and disguised his frustrations as abstract rhymes.
Three years later, P.O...
- consequenceofsound.net
2012-11-06
★★★★★
The year 2012 has seen something of a revival in a certain stripe of gnarly, heavy, politicised hip hop. resurfaced with fine new comeback album ; took on the military-industrial complex on his track Reagan; and the masters of the form, , landed back in the charts with Paralympics anthem Harder Than You Think. The fourth album from fits pretty neatly into this resurgent paradigm...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
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