For Hero: For Fool

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For Hero: For Fool
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Studio album by
Subtle
ReleasedOctober 3, 2006 (2006-10-03)
Genre Hip hop
Length51:09
Label Lex Records
Producer Subtle
Subtle chronology
A New White
(2004)		For Hero: For Fool
(2006)		 Exiting Arm
(2008)
Singles from For Hero: For Fool
  1. "The Mercury Craze"
    Released: 2006 (2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 85/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Cokemachineglow 90% [4]
Drowned in Sound 10/10 [5]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [6]
Playlouder Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [7]
PopMatters 7/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Stylus B+ [10]
Uncut 8/10 [11]

For Hero: For Fool is the second studio album by American hip hop sextet Subtle. It was released on Lex Records in 2006. "The Mercury Craze" was released as a single from the album. [12]

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 85% based on 14 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "a complex, innovative, sometimes bizarre, and usually utterly confusing journey into the minds of lyricist Doseone and his five bandmates." [2] Neal Hayes of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying, "the Oakland-based group presents a futuristic musical vision that is vivid, unsettling, and, above all, distinctive." [8]

OC Weekly included it on the "Album Covers of the Year" list. [13]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."A Tale of Apes I"3:18
2."A Tale of Apes II"2:13
3."Middleclass Stomp"4:14
4."Middleclass Kill"4:36
5."Midas Gutz"2:37
6."Nomanisisland"4:20
7."The Mercury Craze"4:40
8."Bed to the Bills"4:50
9."Return of the Vein"4:11
10."Call to Dive"7:08
11."The Ends"8:57

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Subtle

Technical personnel

References

  1. 1 2 "For Hero: For Fool by Subtle". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Brown, Marisa. "For Hero: For Fool - Subtle". AllMusic . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ The sextet take glitchy electronics, nerdy psychedelic rock and various forms of hip-hop to create a completely over-the-top concept album--and it works perfectly. [Dec 2006, p.208]
  4. ↑ "Subtle For Hero : For Fool". Cokemachineglow . September 29, 2006. Archived from the original on December 1, 2006. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  5. ↑ Saunders, Daniel (October 16, 2006). "Subtle: For Hero: For Fool". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on October 19, 2006. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  6. ↑ Dahlen, Chris (October 5, 2006). "Subtle - for hero: for fool". Pitchfork . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jones, Domino (October 31, 2006). "For Hero : For Fool - Subtle". Playlouder . Archived from the original on November 20, 2006. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
  8. 1 2 Hayes, Neal (October 3, 2006). "Subtle: For Hero: For Fool". PopMatters . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Absorbing. [Jan 2007, p.153]
  10. ↑ Rosenberg, Tal (December 15, 2006). "Subtle - For Hero: For Fool". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  11. ↑ Running over with ideas. [Nov 2006, p.128]
  12. ↑ "The Mercury Craze - Digital". Lex Records . Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  13. ↑ Ferguson, Kevin (December 28, 2006). "Album Covers Of The Year 2006". OC Weekly . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
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