Professional ratings
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SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Cyclic Defrostfavorable[2]
Metro[3]
Spinfavorable[4]
XLR8Rfavorable[5]

Craft of the Lost Art is the first studio album by Shape of Broad Minds. It was released on Lex Records in 2007.

Production

Shape of Broad Minds was a group made up of Jneiro Jarel, Dr. Who Dat?, Jawwaad, Panama Black, and Rocque Wun.[6] With the exception of Jawwaad, the rest of the group were aliases of Jneiro Jarel.[6] In an interview with Clash, Jarel stated that Craft of the Lost Art came out of a deep depression, saying, "I'd had a bad year and felt really low, like I was drowning, so I built the album around that."[7] He described it as "an album left in a treasure chest underwater."[7] The album featured guest appearances from MF Doom, Count Bass D, John Robinson, Stacy Epps, and Deborah Jordan.[6]

Critical reception

Vincent Thomas of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, calling it "an exploratory album, with no terrain off limits."[1] Tom Smith of Cyclic Defrost said, "it's forward thinking, soulful, honest, hip hop that has been in high rotation around here for several weeks."[2] Jesse Serwer of XLR8R said, "SOBM flips a spaced-out jazzy aesthetic that at various points recalls Digable Planets, Antipop Consortium, and J Dilla."[5]

Siobhan Murphy of Metro gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "There's variety and invention aplenty, moments of beauty and sly humour, but ultimately the album's 23 tracks add up to a cohesive hip hop offering of genuine significance."[3] Mosi Reeves of Spin said, "[Jneiro Jarel is] better off handing the mic to guest MCs Count Bass D, MF Doom, and Stacy Epps and focusing on his richly textured, next-level beats."[4]

PopMatters placed it at number 90 on the "101 Hip-Hop Albums of 2007" list.[8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Gorilla Mash"1:33
2."Light Years Away"2:53
3."Let's Go" (featuring MF Doom)4:24
4."Changes"3:44
5."Nahuma (Interlude)"0:43
6."OPR8R"6:16
7."Budda Fly Away"5:02
8."Unnamed"0:49
9."It Lives On" (featuring Count Bass D)1:19
10."So Much (Chaos)" (featuring Lil Sci a.k.a. John Robinson)4:29
11."Buzz Around Town"1:55
12."They Don't Know" (featuring Stacy Epps)3:04
13."Bopper Blocker"1:16
14."Electric Blue"4:26
15."Mermaid (Outro)"0:55
16."It Ain't Dead!"1:48
17."Beast from da East"1:36
18."Lullabanger (Thelonious Dedication)"3:30
19."Viberian Sun"2:10
20."There 4 Me"3:03
21."Stiff Robots and Drunken Horses"3:26
22."Solo (Underwater)" (featuring Deborah Jordan)3:48
23."1 2 C"4:00

References

  1. ^ a b Thomas, Vincent. "Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art". AllMusic. Retrieved March 14, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Smith, Tom (November 14, 2007). "Shape of Broad Minds – Craft of the Lost Art (Lex/Inertia)". Cyclic Defrost. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Murphy, Siobhan (September 17, 2007). "Shape Of Broad Minds: Craft Of The Lost Art". Metro. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  4. ^ a b Reeves, Mosi (November 23, 2007). "Shape of Broad Minds, 'Craft of the Lost Art' (Lex)". Spin. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Serwer, Jesse (November 5, 2007). "Shape of Broad Minds: Craft of the Lost Art". XLR8R. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  6. ^ a b c "Shape Of Broad Minds: Craft of The Lost Art". Lex Records. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  7. ^ a b "The Shape of Broad Minds". Clash. September 1, 2007. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  8. ^ Huff, Quentin B. (January 15, 2008). "101 Hip-Hop Albums of 2007". PopMatters. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
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