Nostalgialator

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.

Nostalgialator
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 26, 2004 (2004-07-26)
GenreHip hop
Length38:40
LabelStudio !K7
Producer
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

Critical reception

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]
Pitchfork8.3/10[7]
PopMatters[8]
XLR8R7/10[9]

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 5 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing, "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.TitleLength
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

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

References

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