Something Wicked This Way Comes (The Herbaliser album)

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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Herbaliser SomethingWicked albumcover.jpg
Studio album by
The Herbaliser
Released19 March 2002 (2002-03-19) [1]
StudioTrain Trax Studios
Genre Nu jazz, hip hop
Length54:18
Label Ninja Tune
Producer Jake Wherry, Ollie Teeba
The Herbaliser chronology
Session One
(2000)		Something Wicked This Way Comes
(2002)		 Herbal Blend
(2003)
Singles from Something Wicked This Way Comes
  1. "Good Girl Gone Bad"
    Released: 2002
  2. "Something Wicked / Mr. Holmes"
    Released: 2002
  3. "Time 2 Build / Distinguished Jamaican English"
    Released: 2002
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 81/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [3]

Something Wicked This Way Comes is the fourth studio album by English jazz hip hop group The Herbaliser. It was released via Ninja Tune on 19 March 2002. [1] It peaked at number 71 on the UK Albums Chart. [4]

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 81% based on 10 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]

Nic Kincaid of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "a timely achievement in music, a genre-bending statement of creative poignancy." [2] Brad Haywood of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.0 out of 10, saying, "The beats are just fine, but they lack the risk or innovation that could potentially make them truly engaging." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Something Wicked" (featuring Seaming To)5:10
2."Verbal Anime" (featuring Rakaa Iriscience)3:46
3."Time 2 Build" (featuring Blade)3:24
4."24 Carat Blag"4:08
5."Mr. Holmes"7:18
6."Good Girl Gone Bad" (featuring Wildflower)4:07
7."The Hard Stuff"2:01
8."Distinguished Jamaican English" (featuring Phi Life Cypher)3:32
9."Worldwide Connected"5:06
10."The Turnaround"3:15
11."Battle of Bongo Hill"4:52
12."It Ain't Nuttin'" (featuring MF Doom)2:46
13."Unsungsong"4:53

Charts

ChartPeak
position
French Albums (SNEP) [5] 113
UK Albums (OCC) [4] 71

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References

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  2. 1 2 Kincaid, Nic. "Something Wicked - The Herbaliser". AllMusic . Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 Haywood, Brad (13 June 2002). "The Herbaliser: Something Wicked This Way Comes". Pitchfork . Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Herbaliser". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Lescharts.com – The Herbaliser – Something Wicked This Way Comes". Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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