| Shock City Maverick | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 18, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 39:22 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
| Producer | Beans | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 65/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10[3] |
| PopMatters | [4] |
| Stylus Magazine | C+[5] |
Shock City Maverick is a 2004 studio album by American rapper Beans, released on Warp.[4]
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Shock City Maverick received an average score of 65% based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]
Derek Miller of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.8 out of 10, commenting that "Beans always had a tendency to reach hard for coffee-shop poesie, but his brash schoolboy taunts sink past angstful overextension."[3] Stefan Braidwood of PopMatters gave the album 5 stars out of 10, saying, "His beats continue to be hypnotically bare-boned, old skool synth assault platforms, over which he then reels you in with his ceaseless syllabic slurry, his lyrics almost irrelevant as his ridiculous flow blurs everything into an inescapable rhythm."[4]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Light of the Damned" | 1:33 |
| 2. | "Papercut" | 2:30 |
| 3. | "Blind Driver" | 2:31 |
| 4. | "Shards of Glass" | 3:26 |
| 5. | "You're Dead, Let's Disco" | 4:23 |
| 6. | "City Hawk" | 2:56 |
| 7. | "Shock City Maverick" | 3:03 |
| 8. | "Death by Sophistication" | 2:48 |
| 9. | "Interval" | 2:42 |
| 10. | "Down by Law" | 3:04 |
| 11. | "A Force on Edge" | 3:50 |
| 12. | "I'll Melt You" | 2:52 |
| 13. | "Diamond Halo Granade" | 3:44 |
References
- 1 2 "Shock City Maverick by Beans". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
- ↑ Kellman, Andy. "Shock City Maverick - Beans". AllMusic. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
- 1 2 Miller, Derek (October 26, 2004). "Beans: Shock City Maverick". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
- 1 2 3 Braidwood, Stefan (March 13, 2005). "Beans: Shock City Maverick". PopMatters. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
- ↑ Gloden, Gabe (November 18, 2004). "Beans - Shock City Maverick". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
External links
- Shock City Maverick at Discogs (list of releases)
- Shock City Maverick at Warp