★★★★★
Since linking up in 2011, Flatbush psychedelic hip-hop duo the Underachievers have released a couple of mixtapes with a few genuinely great joints (Gold Soul Theory was one of my most-played songs of 2013). On their debut studio album, they continue to rap about New Age spirituality, the third eye and spreading knowledge. These guys are deep thinkers, and they unleash their philosophical musings and non-preachy positivity over 12 dense tracks packed with lush, ethereal and trippy production...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-08-14
★★★★★
Challenging listeners on "Cellar Door," The Underachievers' strong flows both help them stand out and also require great (yet rewarding) effort to process. If one were to pick a feasible alternative for kids coming of age seeking deeper themes than what mainstream Rap offers, Brooklyn's Beast Coast crew would be amongst the sure bets...
- www.hiphopdx.com
2014-08-14
★★★★★
The Underachievers have one of the most ironic names of any rising hip-hop act in recent years -- and they've got to know it. In 2013, they released a highly conceptual breakthrough mixtape Indigoism and a taut EP, The Lords of Flatbush, that somehow got Waka Flocka Flame's main producer Lex Luger to back a couple of New York's slipperiest voices...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-08-12
★★★★★
"Cellar Door" are supposedly the most phonetically beautiful words in the English language. on the other hand, is more of a gnarled beauty, like a dented Ferrari or a swan with prison tats. Brooklyn duo AK and Issa Gold float backwards here in some respects, towards their first mixtape's psychedelic undercurrent and away from the bass-y bangers of ...
- exclaim.ca
2014-08-09
★★★★★
New York's hip hop will never stop. The birthplace of the culture, the Big Apple's voraciousness for fresh sounds will always mark it a talent hotbed. But something truly distinctive has slipped into the water of late. A tasteful revivalism, complemented by a fuggy, narcotised aesthetic. Raps with bite and insight, matched to boom-bap attack with a contemporary twist. "Beast Coast", its makers call it...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
The Brainfeeder-affiliated Brooklyn rap duo the Underachievers are part of New York City's loose knit Beast Coast collective, which counts Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew along with Flatbush Zombies among its membership, and the A$AP Mob as friends. But the Underachievers are a singular presence within the new New York scene. They're not retro-leaning traditionalists like Bada$$, whose 1999 mixtape studiously replicated the vibe of classic 90s New York rap...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
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