Nostalgialator

Nostalgialator
Studio album by Mike Ladd
Released July 26, 2004 (2004-07-26)
Genre Hip hop
Length 38:40
Label Studio !K7
Producer Mike Ladd, Jeff Cordero, Scotty Hard
Mike Ladd chronology
Welcome to the Afterfuture
(2000)		 Nostalgialator
(2004)		 Negrophilia: The Album
(2005)
Singles from Nostalgialator
  1. "Wild Out Day / Jet Pack"
    Released: 2003
  2. "Housewives at Play"
    Released: 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Dusted Magazinemixed[3]
Exclaim!unfavorable[4]
The Guardian[5]
The Phoenix[6]
Pitchfork Media8.3/10[7]
PopMatters7/10[8]
XLR8R7/10[9]

Nostalgialator is a studio album by American hip hop musician Mike Ladd. It was released on Studio !K7 in 2004. It was re-released on Definitive Jux in 2007.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Nostalgialator received an average score of 76% based on 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic said: "Perhaps Nostalgialator isn't the artist's most provocative work, but his mix of indie electronica, rock, blues, punk, hip-hop, and spoken word certainly makes it one of his most interesting and fulfilling endeavors."[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Dire Straits Plays Nuremberg"   2:23
2. "Trouble Shot"   3:40
3. "Housewives at Play"   3:09
4. "Black Orientalist"   3:08
5. "Wild Out Day"   2:55
6. "How Electricity Really Works"   4:07
7. "Off to Mars?"   4:25
8. "Learn to Fall"   3:24
9. "Afrotastic"   2:21
10. "Nostalgialator"   5:34
11. "Sail Away Ladies (Traditional, After Odetta)"   3:34

References

  1. 1 2 "Nostalgialator - Mike Ladd". Metacritic. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Brown, Marisa. "Nostalgialator - Mike Ladd". AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  3. ↑ Yaster, Ben (January 14, 2008). "Dusted Reviews: Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator". Dusted Magazine.
  4. ↑ Mouallem, Omar (April 2008). "Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator". Exclaim!.
  5. ↑ Simpson, Dave (July 23, 2004). "Mike Ladd, Nostalgialator". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ Graham, Andrew (January 28, 2008). "Mike Ladd - Nostalgialator - Definitive Jux". The Phoenix.
  7. ↑ Tangari, Joe (September 14, 2004). "Mike Ladd: Nostalgialator". Pitchfork Media.
  8. ↑ Sawdey, Evan (January 24, 2008). "Mike Ladd: Nostalgialator". PopMatters.
  9. ↑ Siwek, Daniel (January 29, 2008). "Nostaligalator". XLR8R.

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