ENCORE
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ENCORE
Encore is the fifth studio album by American rapper Eminem, released on November 12, 2004 by Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records, and Interscope Records. Its release date was originally set for November 16, 2004, but was moved to November 12 after the album was leaked to the Internet. Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
a fourth fascinating record from Eminem, but it's also easily his weakest and, in many ways, tamest album to date
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Rolling Stone
There are fresh vocal cadences — here even faster, there more staccato
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Genius
this album isn’t terrible. It’s not good either.
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AV Club
it is significant
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Upon listening to the album, it becomes immediately obvious that Em has deviated too far from what made him great.
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NME
an album where he sounds positively knackered, and another half where he has gone, sonically and lyrically, as far as he can go
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Hip Hop DX
When it comes to skills, very few can compare. Ever. But doesn’t always translate into making the best music. “Encore” is an example of that.
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BBC
a few great songs tacked onto an hour of dicking about
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Mind Equals Blown
Encore showed that everybody has an Achilles heel
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Sputnik Musis
while you most likely will think the album as a whole is weak, there are plenty of good to excellent songs here to justify it's existence
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Slant Mgazine
Regardless of how you feel about his politics, Eminem’s weakest moments are always the ones in which he feels the need to apologize, as he does on Encore‘s first few tracks. The album opens with a mea culpa (“Lord please forgive me for what I do/For I know not what I’ve done”), all the while placing blame everywhere but on himself. “I’ve heard people say they heard the
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The Guardian
Perversely, his fourth album suggests the one thing that could constitute a career-threatening disaster for Eminem is relative peace and quiet.
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All Music
there are moments scattered across the record that do work, whether it's full songs or flights of phrase in otherwise limp tracks, and that's enough to make it worth a spin
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Spin
includes some ofthe most thoughtful music of Eminem’s career, and some of the butt-stupidest
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Tangled Up In Music
album that presents its artist’s monumental fall into mediocrity, dullness, and ultimately, embarrassment and self-parody
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Entertainment Weekly
he’s become something none of us would have expected: predictable
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New York Magazine
This isn’t the most rockin’ moment in musical history, nor is Encore the best Eminem album, but it’s impressive in a different way.
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Amino
There are many GREAT songs on here. ... It’s just, the combination of songs is terrible.
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Rap Reviews
It's just more of that rambunctious, raving maniac insulting everyone within ear shot, but hey, isn't that what you buy an Eminem album for anyway?
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The New yorker
Listening to it is like being hit in the arm by someone’s little brother forty-five times in a row.
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New York Times
"Encore" is almost willfully uneven: it includes some of the most exhilarating songs Eminem has ever recorded, alongside some of the most inert
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Austin Chronicle
The real Slim Shady is officially in real danger of becoming clichéd. His free pass expires here.
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Alt Rap
frankly another disappointment
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The Oberlin Review
This album has got a lot of everything – the emotional, the political, the shocking, the lewd and the immature.
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RTE
this album sure drags
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Pop Matters
Encore still gets my qualified recommendation
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Mr Hipster
Seems Dr. Dre was trying to make a “big” album, but it just sounds like a man drowning in background nonsense.
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Beat
While not up to usual Em standards, Encore is still a fun listen.
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