Shock City Maverick

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Shock City Maverick
Studio album by Beans
Released October 18, 2004 (2004-10-18)
Genre Hip hop
Length39:22
Label Warp
Producer Beans
Beans chronology
Tomorrow Right Now
(2003)		Shock City Maverick
(2004)		 Thorns
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 65/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Stylus Magazine C+ [5]

Shock City Maverick is a 2004 studio album by American rapper Beans, released on Warp. [4]

Beans (rapper) American rapper

Beans is a rapper from White Plains, New York. He was a member of the underground hip hop group Antipop Consortium. He is a founder of the record label Tygr Rawwk Rcrds.

Warp (record label) record label

Warp is an English independent record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store workers Steve Beckett, Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon. It is currently based in London.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Shock City Maverick received an average score of 65% based on 18 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [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.

Derek Miller of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.8 out of 10, commenting that "Beans always had a tendency to reach hard for coffee-shop poesie, but his brash schoolboy taunts sink past angstful overextension." [3] Stefan Braidwood of PopMatters gave the album 5 stars out of 10, saying, "His beats continue to be hypnotically bare-boned, old skool synth assault platforms, over which he then reels you in with his ceaseless syllabic slurry, his lyrics almost irrelevant as his ridiculous flow blurs everything into an inescapable rhythm." [4]

<i>Pitchfork</i> (website) online music magazine

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois, and owned by Condé Nast. Being developed during Schreiber's tenure in a record store at the time, the magazine developed a reputation for its extensive focus on independent music, but has since expanded to a variety of coverage on both indie and popular music.

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.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Light of the Damned"1:33
2."Papercut"2:30
3."Blind Driver"2:31
4."Shards of Glass"3:26
5."You're Dead, Let's Disco"4:23
6."City Hawk"2:56
7."Shock City Maverick"3:03
8."Death by Sophistication"2:48
9."Interval"2:42
10."Down by Law"3:04
11."A Force on Edge"3:50
12."I'll Melt You"2:52
13."Diamond Halo Granade"3:44

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References

  1. 1 2 "Shock City Maverick by Beans". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ Kellman, Andy. "Shock City Maverick - Beans". AllMusic . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Miller, Derek (October 26, 2004). "Beans: Shock City Maverick". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Braidwood, Stefan (March 13, 2005). "Beans: Shock City Maverick". PopMatters . Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Gloden, Gabe (November 18, 2004). "Beans - Shock City Maverick". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
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