Fever (Black Milk album)

Fever was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 7 reviews.[2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 78 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews.[9]

Pitchfork described the sound as "something like P-Funk meets the Ummah".[6] 303 Magazine said the album was "so engrossing that it induces a thrill to speak its fresh tracks."[10] Giving it 4/5 stars, the Guardian said "the vibe is gorgeous, featuring guttural but lithe bass and airy whispers of beats".[5] The Detroit Free Press said that it's a "purposeful, progressive leap forward".[11] The Washington Post described it as "pushing the envelope".[12] The 405 suggested that the album was making an early claim for the best hip-hop album of the year.[13] Detroit's Metro Times described Fever as "a diverse array of songs full of Hendrix soul and George Clinton funk".[14] PopMatters said that for this album Black Milk "explores a spectrum of influences that includes jazz and electronica to produce a shifting-sand of styles that defy the genre trappings that have often ensnared lesser hip-hop act".[15]