Sour Soul (album)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100^[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Billboard	^[4]
Exclaim!	6/10^[5]
Drowned in Sound	9/10^[6]
Paste	8/10^[7]
HipHopDX	^[8]
Pitchfork	6.2/10^[9]

Sour Soul has received generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 27 reviews. In a mixed review for Exclaim!, Eric Zaworski noted that the record "hurriedly finishes without giving its concepts enough time to bloom," further explaining that "the production is top-notch, but Ghost rarely shifts into uncharted lyrical territory, holding back Sour Soul's otherwise consistent production."^[5]

In an extremely positive review, giving the album a score of 9 out of 10, Sam Moore wrote for Drowned in Sound that "Sour Soul is sublime." Adding that "rather than standing around starstruck, BBNG have more than proven their worth as Ghostface’s backing band."^[6]

The album was a short-listed nominee for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize.^[10]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Frank Dukes and BadBadNotGood.^[11]
Ghostface does not appear on track 1, 5 and 12, which are instrumental tracks.
Additional production by Wayne Gordon ^[12]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mono" (instrumental)	0:58
2.	"Sour Soul"	2:45
3.	"Six Degrees" (featuring Danny Brown)	3:40
4.	"Gunshowers" (featuring Elzhi)	3:03
5.	"Stark's Reality" (instrumental)	2:12
6.	"Tone's Rap"	2:58
7.	"Mind Playing Tricks"	2:37
8.	"Street Knowledge" (featuring TREE)	3:24
9.	"Ray Gun" (featuring DOOM)	3:07
10.	"Nuggets of Wisdom"	2:11
11.	"Food"	3:23
12.	"Experience" (instrumental)	2:37
Total length:		32:55

Personnel

Matthew Tavares - guitar, keyboards, synthesizers
Chester Hansen - bass guitar, keyboards
Alexander Sowinski - drums, percussion, synthesizer, vibraphone
Ghostface Killah - rapper
Frank Dukes – production
Tommy Paxton-Beesley – cello, violin, trombone, guitar, organ
Leland Whitty – saxophone, viola, violin
David Lewis – tuba
Thomas Brenneck - guitar
Wayne Gordon - guitar, production, engineer
Jared Tankel - baritone saxophone
Billy Aukstik - trumpet
Nadav Same Nirenberg - trombone
Freddy DeBoe - tenor saxophone

Charts

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[13]	54
Australian Hitseekers Albums (ARIA)^[14]	1
Australian Urban Albums (ARIA)^[14]	5
scope="row"	US Billboard 200^[15]	109
scope="row"	US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[16]	9
scope="row"	US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[17]	12

References

↑ "BADBADNOTGOOD III :) on Twitter: "FEB 24 SOUR SOUL DROPS WORLDWIDE!!!! HUGE THANKS @GhostfaceKillah @FrankDukes @LexRecords #soursoul #goldvinyl #boom http://t.co/ALgNIo1WdQ"". Twitter.com. 2015-01-08. Retrieved 2015-03-01. External link in |title= (help)
↑ "Critic Reviews for Sour Soul". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
↑ Jeffries, David. "Sour Soul – BadBadNotGood / Ghostface Killah". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
↑ Kennedy, John (February 23, 2015). "Album Review: Ghostface Killah & BadBadNotGood's 'Sour Soul' Sounds Sweet". Billboard. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
1 2 Zaworski, Eric (February 24, 2015). "BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
1 2 Moore, Sam (February 16, 2015). "Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah Sour Soul". Drowned In Sound. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
↑ Spinelli, Adrian (February 2015). "Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD: Sour Soul Review". Paste Magazine. Retrieved February 2015.
↑ Spinelli, Adrian (February 25, 2015). "Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD - Sour Soul". HipHopDX. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
↑ Patrin, Nate (February 16, 2015). "Ghostface Killah BADBADNOTGOOD: Sour Soul". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
↑ http://polarismusicprize.ca/blog/2015-polaris-music-prize-short-list/
↑ "Ghostface Killah & BadBadNotGood - Sour Soul - release date, reviews, buy". Undergroundhiphop.com. Retrieved 2015-03-01.
↑ http://www.discogs.com/BadBadNotGood-Ghostface-Killah-Sour-Soul/release/6700403
↑ Ryan, Gavin (March 7, 2015). "ARIA Albums: 50 Shades Of Grey Tops Chart For 4th Week". Noise11. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
1 2 "ARIA Report" (PDF). ARIA Charts. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
↑ "Badbadnotgood – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Badbadnotgood.
↑ "Badbadnotgood – Chart history" Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for Badbadnotgood.
↑ "Badbadnotgood – Chart history" Billboard Independent Albums for Badbadnotgood.

External links

BadBadNotGood

Chester Hansen Alexander Sowinski Matthew A. Tavares

Studio albums	BBNG BBNG2 III

Collaboration albums	Sour Soul (with Ghostface Killah)

Ghostface Killah

Studio albums	Ironman (1996) Supreme Clientele (2000) Bulletproof Wallets (2001) The Pretty Toney Album (2004) Fishscale (2006) More Fish (2006) The Big Doe Rehab (2007) Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City (2009) Apollo Kids (2010) Twelve Reasons to Die (2013) 36 Seasons (2014) Twelve Reasons to Die II (2015)

Compilations	Shaolin's Finest (2003) Hidden Darts: Special Edition (2007) The Wallabee Champ (2008) GhostDeini the Great (2008)

Collaborations	718 (2004) (with Theodore Unit) Put It on the Line (2005) (with Trife Diesel) Wu-Massacre (2010) (with Raekwon and Method Man) Wu Block (2012) (with Sheek Louch) Sour Soul (2015) (with BadBadNotGood)

Singles	"Daytona 500" "All That I Got Is You" "Apollo Kids" "Cherchez La Ghost" "Never Be the Same Again" "Ghost Showers" "Tush" "Milk Em'" "Be Easy" "Back Like That"

Featured singles	"Can It Be All So Simple" "Heaven & Hell" "Criminology" "Ice Cream" "Rainy Dayz"

Related articles	Discography Wu-Tang Clan Theodore Unit

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