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| Released | March 22, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 41:19 | |||
| Label | Definitive Jux | |||
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Black Dialogue is the debut studio album by American hip hop group The Perceptionists. It was released on Definitive Jux on March 22, 2005. [1]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The A.V. Club | mixed [3] |
| Billboard | favorable [4] |
| City Pages | favorable [5] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [6] |
| Exclaim! | favorable [7] |
| PopMatters |   [8] |
| XLR8R | favorable [9] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Black Dialogue received an average score of 81, based on 7 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]
Andy Kellman of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying, "Lif and Akrobatik have a long history, so they sound natural as brainy verse-swapping partners, and they're sharp throughout, whether they have their sights set on the Bush Administration or are simply batting boasts back and forth." [2] Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club said, "on the whole, Black Dialogue emerges as a triumph, an impassioned 12-track hip-hop manifesto even a mother could love, assuming of course, she hasn't affixed a Bush/Cheney sticker on the bumper of the family station wagon." [3]
Dylan Hicks of City Pages called it "a leftist party record: alarmed but not paranoid, disgusted but not defeated, convinced that radicals are born on the dance floor and thus never guilty about composing love raps and having a good time." [5] Derek Beres of XLR8R said: "Social theory and musical aesthetic find kindred partnership on Black Dialogue." [9]
Rolling Stone placed it at number 36 on the "Top 50 Records of 2005" list. [10]
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Let's Move" | DJ Fakts One | 2:59 |
| 2. | "People 4 Prez" | El-P | 2:21 |
| 3. | "Blo" | El-P | 3:22 |
| 4. | "Memorial Day" | Cyrus the Great | 3:33 |
| 5. | "Love Letters" | Willie Evans Jr. | 4:11 |
| 6. | "Black Dialogue" | Willie Evans Jr. | 3:06 |
| 7. | "Frame Rupture" | El-P | 3:22 |
| 8. | "What Have We Got to Lose?!?" | Cyrus the Great | 2:46 |
| 9. | "Party Hard" (featuring Camu Tao and Guru) | Camu Tao | 3:50 |
| 10. | "Career Finders" (featuring Humpty Hump) | DJ Fakts One | 3:45 |
| 11. | "5 O'Clock" (featuring Phonte) | DJ Fakts One | 4:05 |
| 12. | "Breathe in the Sun" | Willie Evans Jr. | 3:58 |
| Total length: | 41:19 | ||
A few of their songs from the album even appeared in several video games, mostly by Electronic Arts. "Let's Move" appeared in NBA Live 06 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted, while "People for Prez" appeared in SSX On Tour. "Party Hard" appeared in ATV Offroad Fury 4, DJ Hero 2 (as DLC), and Skate 3.
| Chart | Peak position |
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| US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [11] | 41 |
| US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [12] | 42 |
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