Exiting Arm

Exiting Arm
Studio album by Subtle
Released May 13, 2008 (2008-05-13)
Genre Hip hop
Length 46:01
Label Lex Records
Producer Subtle
Subtle chronology
Yell&Ice
(2006)		 Exiting Arm
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The A.V. ClubB[3]
Drowned in Sound8/10[4]
Pitchfork Media8.3/10[5]
PopMatters7/10[6]
The Skinny[7]
Spin7/10[8]
The Stranger[9]

Exiting Arm (stylized as ExitingARM) is the third studio album by American hip hop sextet Subtle.[10] It was released on Lex Records in 2008.[6] The album is "the latest chapter in the story of Hour Hero Yes, the middle-class rapper whose rise and struggles are chronicled told on 2004's A New White and 2006's For Hero: For Fool."[5]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Exiting Arm received an average score of 75% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Christopher Bahn of The A.V. Club gave the album a grade of B, writing: "Musically, ExitingARM is just as layered, blenderizing beats, sampled electronic noise, and Doseone's easygoing, flowing words into a package that's sometimes electrifying and sometimes confounding."[3] Eric Grandy of The Stranger said: "Throughout ExitingARM, frontman Doseone remains an inscrutable MC, quick-tongued and verbose, and an unassuming but surprisingly fluid singer, whispering melodies in multitracked reverb to contrast his sharper falsetto raps."[9]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "ExitingARM"   3:50
2. "Day Dangerous"   5:20
3. "The No"   3:19
4. "Sick Soft Perfection"   3:09
5. "Hollow Hollered"   6:04
6. "The Crow"   4:02
7. "Unlikely Rock Shock"   3:11
8. "Take to Take"   2:55
9. "Gonebones"   3:33
10. "Wanted Found"   5:56
11. "Providence"   4:50

References

  1. 1 2 "Exiting Arm - Subtle". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ Brown, Marisa. "ExitingARM". AllMusic. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Bahn, Christopher (May 19, 2008). "Subtle: ExitingARM". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hamilton, Billy (May 14, 2008). "Subtle - ExitingARM". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Dahlen, Chris (May 15, 2008). "Subtle: ExitingARM". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Fairall, Jer (July 27, 2008). "Subtle: ExitingARM". PopMatters. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ Brown, Ally (April 25, 2008). "Subtle - ExitingARM". The Skinny. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ Reeves, Mosi (May 13, 2008). "Subtle, 'ExitingARM' (Lex)". Spin. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Grandy, Eric (May 8, 2008). "Album Review". The Stranger. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ Diver, Mike (June 13, 2008). "Subtle: overcoming odds in pursuit of silver linings". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved February 26, 2015.

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