For Hero: For Fool

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For Hero: For Fool
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Studio album by Subtle
Released October 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]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Stylus Magazine B+ [5]

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. [6]

Subtle was an alternative hip hop sextet from Oakland, California. It consisted of Adam Drucker (Doseone), Jeffrey Logan (Jel), Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort, and Marty Dowers. The band was formed in 2001. While considered by the artists to be "genreless", Subtle had close ties to the hip hop and indie music scene.

Lex Records is an independent record label based in Camden, London.

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]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

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." [4]

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Doseone American rapper, producer, poet and artist

Adam Drucker, better known by his stage name Doseone, is an American rapper, producer, poet and artist. He is a co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon. He has also been a member of numerous groups including Deep Puddle Dynamics, Greenthink, Clouddead, Themselves, Subtle, 13 & God, Go Dark, Nevermen, and A7pha.

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet.

OC Weekly included it on the "Album Covers of the Year" list. [7]

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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

Dax Pierson is an American multi-instrumentalist. He is a member of Subtle and 13 & God. He has contributed for underground hip hop musicians such as Themselves, Odd Nosdam and Jel.

Antonionian is a multi-instrumentalist based in Oakland, California.

Jeffrey James Logan, better known by his stage name Jel, is an American hip hop producer and rapper. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of Presage, Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God.

Technical personnel

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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. ↑ Dahlen, Chris (October 5, 2006). "Subtle - for hero: for fool". Pitchfork . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Hayes, Neal (October 3, 2006). "Subtle: For Hero: For Fool". PopMatters . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Rosenberg, Tal (December 15, 2006). "Subtle - For Hero: For Fool". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Mercury Craze - Digital". Lex Records . Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ferguson, Kevin (December 28, 2006). "Album Covers Of The Year 2006". OC Weekly . Retrieved December 3, 2014.
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