Father Divine (album)

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Father Divine
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 15, 2005 (2005-11-15)
Genre Hip hop
Length45:17
Label ROIR
Mike Ladd chronology
Negrophilia: The Album
(2005)
Father Divine
(2005)

Father Divine is a studio album by American hip hop musician Mike Ladd. It was released on ROIR in 2005.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 69/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! mixed [3]
Pitchfork 8.4/10 [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
XLR8R favorable [6]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Joe Tangari of Pitchfork gave the album an 8.4 out of 10, writing, "Like any Ladd album, Father Divine is stuffed with tracks worth talking about, and it's nice to see that Ladd isn't afraid to lay aside his conceptual tendencies in the name of just getting down and nasty, and Father Divine does just that-- it's a record played in the red, and it's not afraid to have a good time there." [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Apt. C2"3:08
2."Awful Raw"2:53
3."Crooner Island"5:40
4."Black Rambo"1:31
5."Barney's Girl"4:14
6."Little Red"3:25
7."Water Bomb"2:54
8."Ike Turner Dub"4:06
9."So 'n So"3:17
10."Just in Case"4:19
11."Murder Girl"4:18
12."The Last Sea"2:10
13."Baptism by Radio"3:19

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