Slime & Reason

Slime & Reason
Studio album by Roots Manuva
Released	1 September 2008 (2008-09-01)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	54:29
Label	Big Dada
Producer	Toddla T
Roots Manuva chronology
Alternately Deep (2006) Slime & Reason (2008) 4everevolution (2011)
Singles from Slime & Reason
"Buff Nuff" Released: 7 July 2008 "Again & Again" Released: 25 August 2008 "Let the Spirit" Released: 27 October 2008 "Do Nah Bodda Mi" Released: 29 June 2009

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
BBC	favorable [3]
Billboard	favorable [4]
The Independent	[5]
musicOMH	[6]
NME	[7]
The Observer	[8]
Pitchfork	7.1/10 [9]
PopMatters	[10]
The Times	[11]

Slime & Reason is the sixth studio album of original material by Roots Manuva. It was released on 1 September 2008 on the Big Dada label. Hip Hop Connection magazine named it Album Of The Year 2008.

A limited-edition version of the album included a bonus CD, entitled Slime & Version, consisting of dub mixes by Wrongtom.

In 2009 it was awarded a silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 30,000 copies throughout Europe. ^[12]

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 76% based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Again & Again"	4:06
2.	"C.R.U.F.F."	3:53
3.	"Do Nah Bodda Mi"	3:14
4.	"Let the Spirit"	4:37
5.	"Kick Up Ya Feet"	3:43
6.	"A Man's Talk"	3:46
7.	"Buff Nuff"	2:15
8.	"It's Me Oh Lord"	3:32
9.	"2 Much 2 Soon"	5:23
10.	"Do 4 Self"	3:10
11.	"The Show Must Go On"	6:07
12.	"I'm a New Man"	3:04
13.	"Well Alright"	3:57
14.	"The Struggle"	3:48

Limited edition bonus disc

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Again & Again & Again"	3:35
2.	"I'm a New Man (A New Version)"	2:51
3.	"A New Dub"	3:02
4.	"9 Dubs a Year"	3:15
5.	"Do Bodda Mi (in Digital)"	3:18
6.	"Dub for the Worms"	3:18
7.	"…And Again"	2:33

Charts

Chart	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC) [13]	22

References

1. "Slime & Reason by Roots Manuva". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved 8 January 2017.
2. Slime & Reason at AllMusic
3. BBC review
4. Billboard Magazine review
5. The Independent Review ^{[ dead link ]}
6. musicOMH review
7. NME review
8. "CD: Urban review: Roots Manuva, Slime and Reason". The Guardian . 9 August 2008. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021.
9. Pitchfork review Archived 2008-09-21 at the Wayback Machine
10. PopMatters review
11. The Times review
12. "color". www.impalamusic.org. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
13. "Roots Manuva". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 8 November 2017.

External links

• Slime & Reason at Discogs (list of releases)