The Go! Team's bombastic pastiches—which combine obscure, far-flung samples, schoolyard chants, a rotating troupe of vocalists, and every instrument known to man—create a shockingly cohesive, genre-bending experience of peerless energy and creativity.

R. Kelly still seduces while producing one of his finest and most accessible albums yet

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