Human the Death Dance

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Human the Death Dance
Human the Death Dance artwork.jpg
Studio album by
Sage Francis
ReleasedMay 8, 2007 (2007-05-08)
Genre Hip hop
Length54:42
Label Epitaph Records
Producer Odd Nosdam, Mr. Cooper, Buck 65, Mark Isham, Alias, Sixtoo, Ant, Big Cats!, Kurtis SP, Miles Bonny, Reanimator
Sage Francis chronology
A Healthy Distrust
(2005)		Human the Death Dance
(2007)		 Li(f)e
(2010)

Human the Death Dance is the third solo studio album by American rapper Sage Francis. [1] It was released on Epitaph Records on May 8, 2007. [2] It peaked at number 97 on the Billboard 200 chart. [3]

Sage Francis American rapper

Paul William "Sage" Francis is an American independent underground rapper from Providence, Rhode Island. He is the founder and CEO of Strange Famous Records.

Epitaph Records American record label

Epitaph Records is an American independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most acts signed to the label were punk and pop punk acts, while there are many post-hardcore and emo bands signed to the label as well. A large portion of the record label, known as Hellcat Records, is owned by Tim Armstrong, frontman of the punk rock band Rancid. Several sister labels also exist, such as ANTI-, Burning Heart Records, Fat Possum Records, Hellcat Records, and Heart & Skull Records that have signed other types of bands.

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Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Billboard favorable [6]
Christgau's Consumer Guide Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg [7]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [1]
Pitchfork 7.9/10 [8]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Spin Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
XLR8R favorable [12]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [4]

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.

David Jeffries of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "Human the Death Dance may be his most personal effort, but it's also an incredibly well-built full-length -- even when it borrows from a handful of genres -- and it's arguably his best lyrical effort, undoubtedly his best production-wise." [5] Roque Strew of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.9 out of 10, saying, "'Going Back to Rehab' weaves allusions to the greats, Nas and Biggie, into a six-minute tapestry that encompasses everything great about Sage Francis's strongest album to date: Its neon rainbow of tones and moods, the almost telepathic harmony between producer and rapper, the riveting fault-line tiptoe between memoir and manifesto." [8]

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Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Growing Pains Intro" 0:37
2."Underground for Dummies" Odd Nosdam 4:13
3."Civil Obedience"Mr. Cooper4:19
4."Got Up This Morning" Buck 65 3:11
5."Good Fashion" Mark Isham 1:34
6."Clickety Clack" Alias 3:59
7."Midgets and Giants"Alias3:54
8."Broccilude" Sixtoo 1:14
9."High Step" Ant 1:53
10."Keep Moving"Alias4:36
11."Waterline"Mark Isham2:02
12."Black Out on White Night" Big Cats! 4:36
13."Hell of a Year"Kurtis SP4:11
14."Call Me Francois" Miles Bonny 3:11
15."Hoofprints in the Sand" Reanimator 5:01
16."Going Back to Rehab" 6:11

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

David P. Madson, better known by his stage name Odd Nosdam, is an American underground hip hop producer, DJ and visual artist. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has remixed tracks by a variety of bands and artists including Boards of Canada, The Notwist, and Sole.

Buck 65 Canadian DJ

Richard Terfry, better known by his stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, rock, folk and avant-garde influences.

Mark Ware Isham is an American musician. A trumpeter and synthesist, he works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a film composer, having worked on films and television series, including The Hitcher,Point Break, Of Mice and Men, Warrior, Nell, Blade,Crash, The lucky one and Once Upon a Time.

Charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [3] 97
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [13] 8
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [14] 7

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