Angles (Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip album)
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| Angles | ||||
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| Studio album by dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip |
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| Released | May 12, 2008 (UK) September 2, 2008 (USA) |
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| Recorded | November 2007 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop, Electronic | |||
| Length | 57:23 | |||
| Label | Sunday Best Recordings (UK) Strange Famous Records (USA) |
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| Producer | dan le sac, Yila | |||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | (7/10)[2] |
| Okayplayer | (88/100)[3] |
| Pitchfork Media | (0.2/10)[4] |
| The Times | |
| PopMatters.com | |
| Drowned in Sound | |
Angles is the debut album by dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip, released on 12 May 2008.[8] It entered and peaked at #31 on the UK album chart.[9] Most of the album was recorded in a friend of Scroobius Pip's shed in Essex and in dan le sac's back bedroom.
[edit] Track listing
All lyrics written by Scroobius Pip, all music composed by dan le sac, except where noted.
| Angles | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" | 5:13 | |||||||
| 2. | "Development" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 3. | "Look for the Woman" | 4:04 | |||||||
| 4. | "Rapper's Battle" | 3:27 | |||||||
| 5. | "Tommy C" | 4:26 | |||||||
| 6. | "Fixed" (Music by dan le sac & Billy Squier) | 3:28 | |||||||
| 7. | "Angles" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 8. | "Letter from God to Man" (Music by dan le sac & Colin Greenwood, Edward O'Brien, Jonathan Greenwood, Phillip Selway, Thomas Yorke) | 3:57 | |||||||
| 9. | "Magician's Assistant" | 4:39 | |||||||
| 10. | "Back from Hell" | 3:14 | |||||||
| 11. | "Thou Shalt Always Kill" | 5:18 | |||||||
| 12. | "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..." (also includes the hidden track "Reading My Dreams") | 11:37 | |||||||
Also released was an iTunes Bonus Video Version with a shortened version of "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In...", and the track "Reading My Dreams" was used as a separate track.
| Angles (iTunes Bonus Video Version) | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" | 5:13 | |||||||
| 2. | "Development" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 3. | "Look for the Woman" | 4:04 | |||||||
| 4. | "Rapper's Battle" | 3:27 | |||||||
| 5. | "Tommy C" | 4:26 | |||||||
| 6. | "Fixed" | 3:28 | |||||||
| 7. | "Angles" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 8. | "Letter from God to Man" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 9. | "Magician's Assistant" | 4:39 | |||||||
| 10. | "Back from Hell" | 3:14 | |||||||
| 11. | "Thou Shalt Always Kill" | 5:18 | |||||||
| 12. | "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..." | 6:53 | |||||||
| 13. | "Reading My Dreams" | 4:30 | |||||||
| 14. | "First Time We Met Musik (Demo)" | 4:12 | |||||||
| 15. | "Thou Shalt Always Kill (Video)" | 3:18 | |||||||
| 16. | "Look for the Woman (Video)" | 4:00 | |||||||
When the album was released in the USA by Strange Famous Records, it had a different tracklisting.
| Angles (US Version) | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" | 5:14 | |||||||
| 2. | "Development" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 3. | "Thou Shalt Always Kill" | 5:18 | |||||||
| 4. | "Back from Hell" | 3:14 | |||||||
| 5. | "Look for the Woman" | 4:04 | |||||||
| 6. | "Fixed" | 3:28 | |||||||
| 7. | "Rappers Battle" | 3:37 | |||||||
| 8. | "Letter from God to Man" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 9. | "First Time We Met Musik" | 4:12 | |||||||
| 10. | "Tommy C" | 4:26 | |||||||
| 11. | "Angles" | 3:57 | |||||||
| 12. | "Magician's Assistant" | 4:39 | |||||||
| 13. | "Waiting for the Beat to Kick In..." | 14:11 | |||||||
| 14. | "Thou Shalt Always Kill (Video)" | ||||||||
[edit] Production notes
- "Fixed" features a sample from Dizzee Rascal's "Fix Up, Look Sharp", which itself is a sample of Billy Squier's "Big Beat".
- "Letter from God to Man" features a sample from Radiohead's song "Planet Telex", a song featured on the album The Bends. It was also made available as a free download from the band's MySpace website on Christmas Day, 2007.
[edit] References
- ^ The Guardian review
- ^ NME review
- ^ Okayplayer review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review
- ^ The Times review
- ^ PopMatters.com review
- ^ Drowned in Sound review
- ^ "Sunday Best Releases". http://www.sundaybest.net/site/releases/detail.php?articleId=510.
- ^ "Album archive, May 24, 2008". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/2008-05-24/.
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