★★★★★
36 Seasons was released the week after Wu-Tang Clan's new album, A Better Tomorrow, and the way Ghostface has just moved on with his solo career in the face of a new Wu-Tang album - which should be an event, at least a celebration of the group's 20-plus years - is curious. Granted, it might not be a bad move to just head on to the next project, to get out from under the expectations A Better Tomorrow shoulders and ultimately can't live up to...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-01-05
★★★★★
Dennis Coles, aka Ghostface Killah, aka Ghostface, aka Tony Starks, aka Ironman, aka Ghostdini, aka Pretty Tony, has been releasing collaborations and solo albums since 1993. That's 21 years, long enough to make him a legacy artist. His career is officially old enough to drink. Of all of his fellow Wu-Tang Clan members, Ghostface is not only the most prolific, he's the most consistent...
- rapreviews.com
2014-12-16
★★★★★
Ghostface Killah :: 36 Seasons :: Tommy Boy Records
as reviewed by Patrick Taylor
Dennis Coles, aka Ghostface Killah, aka Ghostface, aka Tony Starks, aka Ironman, aka Ghostdini, aka Pretty Tony, has been releasing collaborations and solo albums since 1993. That's 21 years, long enough to make him a legacy artist. His career is officially old enough to drink. Of all of his fellow Wu-Tang Clan members, Ghostface is not only the most prolific, he's the most consistent...
- www.rapreviews.com
2014-12-17
★★★★★
Stop me if you've heard this one before: dashing bon vivant Tony Stark is mangled in a horrifying accident on the job, is resurrected by a confluence of mad science and divine intervention, strikes out to defend his turf and smite his enemies. This is the basic origin story of "Iron Man", the comic book franchise that gave Ghostface Killah, aka Tony Starks, his first album title and likely, his last shot at a major movie role...
- pitchfork.com
2014-12-10
★★★★★
It's a bold move for a member of the Wu-Tang Clan to name a solo album after "36" of anything. But Ghostface Killah's "36 Seasons" is much more than an allusion to his group's beloved 1993 album, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)." It's an urgent, soulfully steely album of hip-hop unconcerned with the genre's current twists into pop structures and woozy electronics...
- www.latimes.com
2014-12-10
★★★★★
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Ghostface Killah follows up last year's impressive "12 Reasons to Die" with a similarly conceived project detailing the dark exploits of his alter ego, Tony Starks, over organic R&B and funk produced by his backing band, the Revelations. Part crime drama, part love story, part superhero fable, this has more emotional resonance than "12 Reasons," but it lacks the kaleidoscopic musical vision of composer-producer Adrian Younge...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2014-12-10
★★★★★
Ghostface Killah's "36 Seasons" once again acts as an action-film meted out on wax, with ups and downs all its own.
The catalog of Ghostface Killah is an impressive one. With the release of his new album, 36 Seasons, Tony Starks has now dropped eleven albums in 18 years. And consistency has always been key. On Ironman, he introduced Wu-Tang fans to his own brand of storytelling and relied on it for most of his subsequent work...
- www.hiphopdx.com
2014-12-10
★★★★★
Comments Here's an idea: Take Ghostface Killah, pair him with a distinct producer or production team, assign him an album-length concept, then let him rip. That formula proved so winning on last year's Twelve Reasons To Die , Ghostface's collaboration with composer Adrian Younge, that nobody can fault his latest album 36 Seasons for trying to repeat it...
- www.avclub.com
2014-12-09
★★★★★
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Release Date: December 9, 2014Label: Tommy Boy
About halfway through 36 Seasons, Ghostface Killah gets his face burned off in a crack lab explosion ("Threw him twenty feet in the air," associate Shawn Wigs swears) and enlists an "exquisite doctor," Dr. X, to build him a new one...
- www.spin.com
2014-12-09
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