Exiting Arm

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Exiting Arm
ExitingARM.jpg
Studio album by
Subtle
ReleasedMay 13, 2008 (2008-05-13)
Genre Hip hop
Length46:01
Label Lex Records
Producer Subtle
Subtle chronology
For Hero: For Fool
(2006)		Exiting Arm
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club B [3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
Pitchfork 8.3/10 [5]
PopMatters 7/10 [6]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Spin 7/10 [8]
The Stranger Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [9]

Exiting Arm (stylized as ExitingARM) is the third studio album by American hip hop sextet Subtle. [10] It was released on Lex Records in 2008. [6] It is "the latest chapter in the story of Hour Hero Yes, the middle-class rapper whose rise and struggles are chronicled told on 2004's A New White and 2006's For Hero: For Fool ." [5]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Christopher Bahn of The A.V. Club gave the album a grade of B, writing, "Musically, ExitingARM is just as layered, blenderizing beats, sampled electronic noise, and Doseone's easygoing, flowing words into a package that's sometimes electrifying and sometimes confounding." [3] Eric Grandy of The Stranger said, "Throughout ExitingARM, frontman Doseone remains an inscrutable MC, quick-tongued and verbose, and an unassuming but surprisingly fluid singer, whispering melodies in multitracked reverb to contrast his sharper falsetto raps." [9]

Pitchfork included it on the "Overlooked Records 2008" list. [11]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Exiting Arm"3:50
2."Day Dangerous"5:20
3."The No"3:19
4."Sick Soft Perfection"3:09
5."Hollow Hollered"6:04
6."The Crow"4:02
7."Unlikely Rock Shock"3:11
8."Take to Take"2:55
9."Gonebones"3:33
10."Wanted Found"5:56
11."Providence"4:50

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Subtle

Technical personnel

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References

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  2. ↑ Brown, Marisa. "ExitingARM - Subtle". AllMusic . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Bahn, Christopher (May 19, 2008). "Subtle: ExitingARM". The A.V. Club . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hamilton, Billy (May 14, 2008). "Subtle - ExitingARM". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Dahlen, Chris (May 15, 2008). "Subtle: ExitingARM". Pitchfork . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Fairall, Jer (July 27, 2008). "Subtle: ExitingARM". PopMatters . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ Brown, Ally (April 25, 2008). "Subtle - ExitingARM". The Skinny . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ Reeves, Mosi (May 13, 2008). "Subtle, 'ExitingARM' (Lex)". Spin . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Grandy, Eric (May 8, 2008). "Album Review". The Stranger . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Diver, Mike (June 13, 2008). "Subtle: overcoming odds in pursuit of silver linings". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Overlooked Records 2008". Pitchfork . July 21, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
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