Telicatessen

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Telicatessen
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Studio album by
Rob Sonic
ReleasedSeptember 7, 2004 (2004-09-07)
Genre Hip hop
Length46:21
Label Definitive Jux
Producer Rob Sonic
Rob Sonic chronology
Telicatessen
(2004)		 Sabotage Gigante
(2007)
Singles from Telicatessen
  1. "Death Vendor / Dylsexia"
    Released: June 18, 2004
  2. "Shoplift"
    Released: October 22, 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
BBC CollectiveStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
City Pages favorable [4]
Insomniacfavorable [5]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
RapReviews.comStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
URB Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Telicatessen is the debut solo album by American hip hop artist and former Sonic Sum member Rob Sonic, released by the Definitive Jux label on September 7, 2004. An instrumental version of the album was released the following year, also by Definitive Jux. The album's title is a portmanteau word combining the terms "television" and "delicatessen". [9]

Contents

Music

All production, lyrics and vocals were by Rob Sonic, with the exception of the verses on "Sniper Picnic" by fellow New York MC Creature and Alaska and Windnbreeze from Definitive Jux labelmates Hangar 18 and backing vocals by M. Sayyid of the group Antipop Consortium. Scratches were performed by Fred Ones from Sonic's former group the Sonic Sum, and by DJ Big Wiz. [10]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Telicatessen received an average score of 74% based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1] Sonic's production was generally praised: a BBC review described the album's sound as "propulsive, hallucinogenic and inspiring," [3] and RapReviews.com described it as "sonically adventurous" without verging into self-indulgence. [7] His lyrics were widely regarded as highly abstract, which critics found to be both a strength ("two-second moments of total clarity bunched together and pouring out") and a weakness ("an endless stream of fleeting ideas"). [4] [7]

The track "Sniper Picnic" was featured on the soundtrack of Activision game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland . [11]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Strange Hammer" R. Smith 4:06
2."Death Vendor"R. Smith3:07
3."New Car Smell"R. Smith2:27
4."Former Future"R. Smith2:05
5."Super Ball"R. Smith4:00
6."Sniper Picnic" (featuring Creature and Hangar 18)R. Smith/S. Booker/T. Baker/I. McMullin 3:40
7."Telicatessen"R. Smith3:19
8."Behemoth"R. Smith3:28
9."Shoplift"R. Smith3:38
10."Dylsexia"R. Smith3:48
11."Riot Ender"R. Smith3:59
12."Location Is Everything"R. Smith3:55
13."Macomb's Dam Bridge"R. Smith4:48

Equipment

The following equipment was used in the making of Telicatessen: [10]

Credits

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References

  1. 1 2 "Telicatessen by Rob Sonic". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Alternative Press, October 2004 (p.148)
  3. 1 2 BBC review Archived 2008-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 City Pages review Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Insomniac review
  6. ↑ NME,18 September 2004 (p.65)
  7. 1 2 3 Rapreviews
  8. ↑ URB September 2004 (p.117)
  9. ↑ "Rob Sonic - urbansmarts.com interview". urbansmarts.com. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
  10. 1 2 "Rob Sonic". World's Fair. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
  11. ↑ "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Soundtrack". about.com . Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  12. ↑ "Telicatessen". Allmusic . Retrieved 2007-08-29.
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