Fever (Black Milk album)

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Fever
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Studio album by
Black Milk
ReleasedFebruary 23, 2018 [1]
Genre Hip hop
Label Mass Appeal
Producer Black Milk
Black Milk chronology
If There's a Hell Below
(2014)		Fever
(2018)		DiVE
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The A.V. Club B [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 7.4/10 [6]

Fever is the seventh studio album by Black Milk, released on February 23, 2018 on Mass Appeal Records. Black Milk went on tour to support the album in April 2018 with dates in Europe and the United States. [7] The lead single from the album was "Laugh Now Cry Later". [8]

Contents

Reception

Fever was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 7 reviews. [2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 78 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews. [9]

Pitchfork described the sound as "something like P-Funk meets the Ummah". [6] 303 Magazine said the album was "so engrossing that it induces a thrill to speak its fresh tracks." [10] Giving it 4/5 stars, the Guardian said "the vibe is gorgeous, featuring guttural but lithe bass and airy whispers of beats". [5] The Detroit Free Press said that it's a "purposeful, progressive leap forward". [11] The Washington Post described it as "pushing the envelope". [12] The 405 suggested that the album was making an early claim for the best hip-hop album of the year. [13] Detroit's Metro Times described Fever as "a diverse array of songs full of Hendrix soul and George Clinton funk". [14] PopMatters said that for this album Black Milk "explores a spectrum of influences that includes jazz and electronica to produce a shifting-sand of styles that defy the genre trappings that have often ensnared lesser hip-hop act". [15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Black Milk.

No.TitleLength
1."Unveil" (featuring Sudie)2:54
2."But I Can Be" (featuring Aaron “Ab” Abernathy)3:03
3."Could It Be"3:30
4."2 Would Try" (featuring Dwele)3:33
5."Laugh Now Cry Later"3:53
6."True Lies"4:04
7."Eve"1:24
8."Drown"3:56
9."Dive"2:46
10."Foe Friend"3:19
11."Will Remain"4:43
12."You Like To Risk It All / Things Will Never Be"3:35

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [16] 20

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  6. 1 2 Balfour, Jay (February 26, 2018). "Black Milk - Fever". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ramos, Richard (May 1, 2018). "Black Milk Adds More Dates To Fever Tour". HipHopDX . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ Burks, Tosten (January 17, 2018). "Black Milk Announces New Album Fever, Releases "Laugh Now Cry Later"". Spin . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  10. ↑ Gardiner, Denby (June 21, 2018). "Show You Should Know - Black Milk to Bring Fever to Larimer Lounge". 303 Magazine. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ Ketchum III, William (March 11, 2018). "On 'Fever,' Detroit's Black Milk swerves again to address jittery political times". Detroit Free Press . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ Kelly, Chris (July 25, 2018). "Rapper-producer Black Milk is 'always pushing the envelope'". The Washington Post . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  13. ↑ McMullen, Chase (February 23, 2018). "Review: Black Milk makes an early claim for the year's best hip hop with the deceptively smooth FEVER". The 405 . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  14. ↑ Davison, Kahn Santori (August 1, 2018). "Rapper Black Milk talks his latest sonic rebellion". Metro Times . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  15. ↑ Khan, Imran (April 9, 2018). "Black Milk's Poetry Is Dexterous and Crisp on 'Fever'". PopMatters . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Black Milk Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard.
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