★★★★★
There's a strong chance you may well have entirely missed this album. It was
released about five weeks ago, with little fanfare, and it was widely assumed that
it would never see the light of day. And now, just in time for Women's Week on
RapReviews, comes a dark horse that mixes Missy Elliot, Lil Kim and M.I.A. into
an intoxicating mix that may well be the best album by a female rapper for a
good little while...
- rapreviews.com
2014-12-16
★★★★★
Azealia Banks is everywhere of late. unlike most celebrities this is because of 10,000 small beefs with people rather than one massive scandal. She challenged Eminem to fight her after his newest cut featured a threat to beat Lana Del Ray, she pioneered the term 'Igloo Australia' in reference to not everyone's favourite Mullumbimby local and a little closer to home explained that 1 of her 3 Australian midshow dropouts was the fault of the Stone Roses...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-12-09
★★★★★
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
8.5
Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive TasteRelease Date: November 6, 2014
Record Label: Prospect ParkOn her debut single "212," Azealia Banks barked an interrogation: "whatcha gonna do when I appear? When I premiere?" By the time that same tone reappears more harshly on "Yung Rapunxel," three years later, the question hasn't been answered...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2014-12-10
★★★★★
After initially being slated for release in late 2012, it's hard to decide whether expectations were high or low for Azealia Banks' debut album Broke With Expensive Taste. The album was delayed time and time again, with Banks eventually succeeding in her wish to be dropped from her label Interscope Records in mid-2014. Finally, more than two years after it was first due out, the album was released without warning. The result? The record Banks has wanted to release all along...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-12-03
★★★★★
Label:
Prospect Park
Release Date:
07/11/2014
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There's that music hack's proverb about how a band or artist's second record is always more difficult to write than the first... because with the first one, y'see, they had their whole lives to write it, yeah? I wanna sentence myself to an eternity in the Eighth Circle of hell for deploying such a tiresome rouse now.....
- drownedinsound.com
2014-11-20
★★★★★
opinion by ZACHARY BERNSTEIN
Smile, Chinese Democracy, Detox - the pop music world has never been a stranger to the frustration of the delayed album release. New York rapper and singer Azealia Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste could have easily earned its own pedestal in such a dubious pantheon. Since she first took music blogs, dorm rooms, and block parties by storm in 2012 with the joyously vulgar earworm "212," Banks has become mired in so many Twitter feuds and record-label publicity flaps...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2014-11-20
★★★★★
Three years after breaking out with '212,' Banks makes a bold EDM-rap statement
BY Suzy Exposito | November 19, 2014 After a two-year standoff with Interscope, Azealia Banks triumphs with her self-released debut. She nods to club kids of all ages by infusing elements of jazz, deep house and U.K. garage into tracks like "Desperado" and "Chasing Time...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-11-20
★★★★★
There's that music hack's proverb about how a band or artist's second record is always more difficult to write than the first... because with the first one, y'see, they had their whole lives to write it, yeah? I wanna sentence myself to an eternity in the Eighth Circle of hell for deploying such a tiresome rouse now... but it really does feel like has been writing her debut record half her life. Yet I'm pretty sure she'll have little trouble topping her inaugural long-player...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-11-19
★★★★★
"Why procrastinate, girl?" sang Azealia Banks in 2011. "You've got a lot but you just waste all yours and they'll forget your name soon."
Three years on, the hook of her breakthrough single 212 has come to sound more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than the self-motivation of a hungry young artist. In those three years, Banks has started more Twitter feuds than she has released official songs, and burned bridges - with labels, producers and fellow artists - with wilful abandon...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-11-20
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