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The Roots - How I Got Over

Released: 28/06/2010 Mercury
Since the mid-1990s The Roots have earned themselves a reputation for delivering high-grade, intelligent hip hop. Has their tenure as house band for major US comedy show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon changed anything? It would seem not. How I Got Over features incongruous guest appearances along with familiar names. For more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/theroots Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0029LX2LC?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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Drowned In Sound“One of the best albums of recent memory...” If you’re really looking for where this album truly belongs, it’s up there with Sly And The Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On or Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On – an album with a universal soul, heart and conscience, but a groove
 
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Guardian“A unique voice in hip-hop...” Their rejections of negativity and belief in humanity are inspiring: the pumping John Legend-sung The Fire delivers a manifesto of triumph over tragedy with such urgent gusto that you hope the world will listen...
 
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Pitchfork“A particularly efficient album...” They're not superhuman. But the fact that they know this, that they can make a whole album about coming to terms with it-- that makes them powerful...
 
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allmusic“The band creates some of its most downcast and alluring material...” Covering solitude, self-destruction, and just about every planetary ill. It’s all vividly conveyed through pensive arrangements, sobering rhymes, spooky choruses, and even spookier backing vocals...
 
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