★★★★★
Release Date: August 20 2013 Prior to hearing Earl Sweatshirt's debut record Doris, the only member of rap collective Odd Future that I was familiar with was Frank Ocean. In a way, that makes a lot of sense, because Ocean is an R&B/pop singer (who does rap occasionally, and his appearance on Doris is a rap verse), and I enjoy those genres a lot. Ocean's debut record Channel Orange actually came out on my birthday last year, but I didn't really listen to the entire record until last fall...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-23
★★★★★
It can be difficult to gain a balanced perspective on an album after reading a single summary of the music. Bias can tilt a review, as can personal taste, history and just about everything else that is unique to the person writing it. So in an effort to offer an expanded perspective in such a medium, here are three reactions, three impressions, three takes on Doris by Earl Sweatshirt. Kyle Tran Myhre (Guante) What is "Doris" if you take away all its baggage...
- www.reviler.org
2013-09-04
★★★★★
The genesis of 'Doris' goes something like this: in 2010, Earl Sweatshirt, born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile to a professor mother and a poet father, released one of the most exciting hip-hop mixtapes of the year. Shortly after 'Earl', his mum sent the 16-year-old to a 'therapeutic retreat school' in Samoa, where he stayed until he was 18. While he was there his fanbase in the US and UK swelled, and when he returned to America he was something of a cult hero...
- www.nme.com
2013-09-02
★★★★★
Earl Sweatshirt
Doris
[Tan Cressida / Columbia; 2013]
By Chase McMullen ; August 27, 2013
Purchase at: Insound (Vinyl) | Amazon (MP3 & CD) | iTunes | MOG
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When Earl Sweatshirt suddenly disappeared at the apex of Odd Future's rapid rise to cultural dominance, some saw it as an early end to his potential...
- beatsperminute.com
2013-08-28
★★★★★
In rap's Internet era, buzz comes fast and easy. Mystery, however, is a much rarer commodity. By disappearing from the public eye shortly after the release of a visceral 2010 mixtape, Earl, Odd Future teen prodigy Earl Sweatshirt became one of rap's great enigmas, the subject of endless rumors and speculation...
- www.avclub.com
2013-08-27
★★★★★
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, a.k.a. Earl Sweatshirt, was the musical guest on the August 9 show of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, but when Fallon howled, "Please welcome Earl Sweatshirt!" his introduction seemed to fall on deaf ears. The man of the hour was seemingly absent on the stage--at least momentarily...
- www.cmj.com
2013-08-28
★★★★★
When Earl - both the youngest and the gravest persona in hyperactiveLA rap collective Odd Future - released a mixtape of deft if dyspeptic rap three years ago, he seemed to be the group's pre-eminent talent, a suspicion confirmed by this label debut. The beats remain dank and murky but the subject matter has thankfully left behind rape and murder narratives for the introspective and confessional...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-08-27
★★★★★
Much of that noise was outcry over the kinds of things Odd Future liked to rap about: unconscionable lyrics about rape and murder seemingly designed to taunt a generation who prided themselves on their inability to be scandalised. What better way really to mess with (they'd use a blunter phrase) a late-00s hipster than confront them with their own prudishness...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-08-25
★★★★★
On May 23rd, 2011, Kelefa Sanneh had her article Where's Earl? published in the New Yorker. It was unusual fare for that particular readership and exposed a whole new demographic to a largely unknown underground hip-hop collective called Odd Future Wolfgang Kill Them All Don't Give a Fuck Loiter Squad. There are other name variations ranging from simply Wolfgang to OFWGKTA. More importantly than the collective itself, however, seemed to be the primary focus of the story--Earl Sweatshirt...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-23
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