| Rainbow Edition | ||||
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| Released | 25 August 2017 | |||
| Genre | Hypnagogic pop [1] | |||
| Length | 36:56 | |||
| Label | Big Dada | |||
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Rainbow Edition is a studio album by British musical duo Hype Williams. It was released in August 2017 under Big Dada.
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 61/100 [2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Crack Magazine | 8/10 [4] |
| Loud and Quiet | 7/10 [5] |
| Mixmag | 7/10 [6] |
| Pitchfork | 6.4/10 [7] |
| PopMatters | 3/10 [8] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 61, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 11 reviews. [9]
| Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crack Magazine | Top 100 Albums of 2017 | 60 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Madting" | 0:58 |
| 2. | "Loud Challenge" | 3:26 |
| 3. | "The Whole Lay" | 2:27 |
| 4. | "Baby Blu" | 1:22 |
| 5. | "Smokebox" | 0:50 |
| 6. | "Rumor Report" | 1:17 |
| 7. | "Puredamage" | 0:28 |
| 8. | "Leimert" | 2:40 |
| 9. | "#Blackcardsmatter" | 4:33 |
| 10. | "Sadting" | 0:43 |
| 11. | "Ask Yee" | 2:10 |
| 12. | "This Is Mister Bigg. How You Doing Mister Bigg" | 1:17 |
| 13. | "The Den" | 0:55 |
| 14. | "Cockblocker Blues" | 1:30 |
| 15. | "Sweet Chin Musik" | 0:34 |
| 16. | "Pretty Young Ting" | 0:56 |
| 17. | "Percy" | 1:18 |
| 18. | "Spinderella's Dream" | 6:18 |
| 19. | "Situations" | 1:12 |
| 20. | "Kandy" | 2:02 |
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