The No Music

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The No Music
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Studio album by Themselves
Released September 16, 2002 (2002-09-16) [1]
Recorded 2001–2002
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length46:02
Label Anticon
Producer Jel, Doseone
Themselves chronology
Them
(1999)		The No Music
(2002)		 The No Music of AIFFs
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Dusted Magazinefavorable [3]
Exclaim! unfavorable [4]
Mute favorable [5]
Pitchfork 4.5/10 [6]
RapReviews.com5/10 [7]
SF Weekly favorable [8]
Stylus Magazine B+ [9]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

The No Music (stylized as The No Music.) is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Themselves. It was released on Anticon in 2002. [1] It peaked at number 183 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart, [11] as well as number 13 on CMJ's Hip-Hop chart. [12] A remix version of the album, The No Music of AIFFs , was released in 2003. [13]

Themselves, previously known as Them, is an American hip hop duo based in Oakland, California. It consists of Doseone and Jel. They are also part of Subtle and 13 & God. The duo's first studio album, Them, was included on Fact's "100 Best Indie Hip-Hop Records of All Time" list.

Anticon record label

Anticon is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It is now collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and manager Shaun Koplow. The original musicians signed to Anticon were once referred to as the Anticon collective.

CMJ Holdings, Corp. was a music events and online media company which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published CMJ New Music Monthly.

Contents

Critical reception

Ed Howard of Stylus Magazine gave the album a grade of B+, saying, "It's far from perfect, and there are still moments where the experiments fall short, but overall this represents the fulfillment of the substantial promise made by Circle and cLOUDDEAD ". [9] Daniel Thomas-Glass of Dusted Magazine called it "a masterful piece of work". [3]

<i>Stylus Magazine</i>

Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog.

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Meanwhile, Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! said, "it turns out to be another Anticon disappointment, although it's still better than the last few". [4] Sam Chennault of Pitchfork gave the album a 4.5 out of 10, saying, "It's a horribly pointless and boring album that will only satisfy those who equate progress with soulless beats and abstract mic theatrics." [6]

<i>Exclaim!</i> magazine

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists. Content is based on the monthly print publication, which publishes 9 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers. Their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month.

<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.

Neil Strauss of The New York Times placed the album at number 9 on his year-end list. [14]

<i>The New York Times</i> Daily broadsheet newspaper based in New York City

The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 125 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The Times is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Home Work"2:38
2."Mouthful"4:07
3."Good People Check"3:51
4."Poison Pit"4:02
5."Live Trap"3:31
6."Only Child Explosion"2:30
7."Paging Dr. Moon or Gun"3:42
8."Dark Sky Demo"3:56
9."You Devil You"4:05
10."Out in the Open"5:23
11."Hat in the Wind"5:11

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Themselves

Doseone American rapper, producer, poet and artist

Adam Drucker, better known by his stage name Doseone, is an American rapper, producer, poet and artist. He is a co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon. He has also been a member of numerous groups including Deep Puddle Dynamics, Greenthink, Clouddead, Themselves, Subtle, 13 & God, Go Dark, Nevermen, and A7pha.

Jeffrey James Logan, better known by his stage name Jel, is an American hip hop producer and rapper. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has been a member of Presage, Themselves, Subtle, and 13 & God.

Additional musicians

Dax Pierson is an American multi-instrumentalist. He is a member of Subtle and 13 & God. He has contributed for underground hip hop musicians such as Themselves, Odd Nosdam and Jel.

Brendon Whitney, better known by his stage name Alias, was a producer and rapper from Hollis, Maine. He was a co-founder of the indie hip hop record label Anticon.

Yoni Wolf American musician

Jonathan Avram "Yoni" Wolf is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock musician and co-founder of the record label Anticon.

Technical personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "The No Music". Anticon . Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Spano, Charles. "The No Music - Themselves". AllMusic . Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Thomas-Glass, Daniel (January 27, 2003). "Dusted Reviews: Themselves - The No Music". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on April 6, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Quinlan, Thomas (December 2002). "Themselves - The No Music". Exclaim! . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Neset, Anne Hilde (November 28, 2002). "The No Music". Mute . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Chennault, Sam (October 1, 2002). "Themselves: The No Music". Pitchfork . Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jost, Matt (October 10, 2002). "Themselves :: The No Music :: Anticon Records". RapReviews.com. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ Doherty, Greg (October 16, 2002). "Themselves: The No Music (Anticon)". SF Weekly . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  9. 1 2 Howard, Ed (September 1, 2003). "Themselves - The No Music". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  10. ↑ Chadwicked (December 14, 2006). "Themselves - The No Music". Tiny Mix Tapes . Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  11. ↑ "CMJ Radio 200 (Period Ending 11/5/2002)". CMJ New Music Report : 13. November 18, 2002.
  12. ↑ "HIp-Hop (Period Ending 10/22/2002)". CMJ New Music Report : 29. November 4, 2002.
  13. ↑ "The No Music Of Aiffs". Anticon . Retrieved April 9, 2018.
  14. ↑ Strauss, Neil (January 8, 2003). "The Pop Life; Tributaries to the Musical Mainstream". The New York Times . Retrieved June 14, 2018.
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