Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation

2018, Apr 6

Apple Spotify Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop 90 Bulk Recordings Hiphopheads 328 Pitchfork 6.7/10 A.V. Club B All Music 3.5/5 The Skinny 3/5 Mojo 4/5 Northern Transmissions 7.0/10 Spectrum Culture 60% Sputnikmusic 3.2/5

Pitchfork 6.7/10 With some modern flourishes, Kool Keith, Dan the Automator, and DJ QBert reconvene mostly for a boom-bap throwback to the ill and the grotesque style of their first 1996 outing.

A.V. Club B Wye Oak’s sixth album is beautifully dense, while The Deconstruction proves the Eels haven’t lost their touch for melancholic pop, and Dr. Octagon swings for the goddamn fences on Moosebumps. These, plus The Weeknd, No Thank You, Kali Uchis, and many more in this week’s new releases.

The Skinny 3/5 Give Moosebumps a little bit of time and it's quite often a worthy and vivid expansion of the Dr. Octagon mythos of Kool Keith and co.

Spectrum Culture 60% A new Dr. Octagon album in 2018 can be read as an artistic defeat.