Live from Rome

Live from Rome is a solo studio album by American hip hop artist Sole. It was released on Anticon in 2005.

Live from Rome
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 22, 2005 (2005-02-22)[1]
GenreHip hop
Length51:39
LabelAnticon
Producer
Sole chronology
Selling Live Water
(2003)
Live from Rome
(2005)
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing
(2012)
Singles from Live from Rome
  1. "New Single"
    Released: 2005

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic62/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Cokemachineglow64/100[3]
Dusted Magazinefavorable[4]
Pitchfork6.9/10[5]
PopMatters[6]
SpinB[7]
Stylus MagazineC[8]
XLR8Rfavorable[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10 and said, "Sole's socialist screeds work well when he raps them like he means them instead of couching them in layers of affected irony."[5] Dave Segal of XLR8R called it "Sole's most accomplished opus yet."[9] Meanwhile, Mike Schiller of PopMatters gave the album 3 stars out of 10, saying, "One or two songs in, the listener is convinced that Sole has something interesting to say; fifteen songs later, he's just an angry young man shouting about whatever."[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sole, except "Banks of Marble" by Pedestrian

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Cheap Entertainment"Odd Nosdam3:38
2."Self Inflicted Wounds"Alias4:10
3."Predictions"Controller 71:12
4."Sin Carne"Odd Nosdam3:10
5."Entalude"Yasamin1:26
6."Locust Farm"Telephone Jim Jesus1:48
7."Every Single One of Us"Alias4:09
8."A Typical"Alias1:27
9."Crisis"Controller 72:41
10."Manifesto 232"Odd Nosdam3:34
11."Banks of Marble"Odd Nosdam3:03
12."Atheist Jihad"Odd Nosdam2:55
13."Dumb This Down"Odd Nosdam3:14
14."Imsotired"Alias4:20
15."On Martyrdom"Tepr5:24
16."Theme"Matt3:53
17."Drive By Detournment"Tepr4:34
Total length:51:39

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

  • Sole – vocals, mixing (5, 15, 17)
  • Jel – additional vocals (1)
  • Pedestrian – additional vocals (1)
  • Odd Nosdam – production (1, 4, 10–13), mixing (1, 4, 6, 10–13, 15, 17), additional production (7), additional mixing (7)
  • Alias – production (2, 7, 8, 14), mixing (7, 14)
  • Jeremy Goody – mixing (2, 3, 8, 9)
  • Controller 7 – production (3, 9)
  • Yasamin – production (5)
  • Telephone Jim Jesus – production (6)
  • Bleubird – vocals (12)
  • Tepr – production (15, 17)
  • Matt – production (16), mixing (16)
  • George Horn – mastering

References

  1. "Discography". Anticon. Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  2. "Live From Rome by Sole". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  3. Betz, Chet (February 16, 2005). "Sole: Live From Rome". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on October 26, 2006. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  4. Wilmoth, Charlie (February 24, 2005). "Sole - Live From Rome". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  5. Howe, Brian (February 20, 2005). "Sole: Live From Rome". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  6. Schiller, Mike (April 27, 2005). "Sole: Live from Rome". PopMatters. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  7. Aaron, Charles; Dolan, Jon; Caramanica, Jon; Gross, Joe (April 2005). "Breakdown". Spin: 108.
  8. Simmons, Will (March 15, 2005). "Sole - Live From Rome". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  9. Segal, Dave (March 1, 2005). "Sole: Live From Rome". XLR8R. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
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