- trip hop
- 67 min
- 17 tracks
- [PIAS] Recordings
The Less You Know, the Better is the fourth studio album by American hip hop producer DJ Shadow, released on September 30, 2011, by Island Records. As with his previous efforts, it relies extensively on samples, which span different genres and time periods.
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Character
Character-led, grave, spare and cool.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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Metacritic 62/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 6/10
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB−
- The Daily Telegraph4/5 ★
- The Guardian3/5 ★
- The Independent3/5 ★
- NME5/10
- Pitchfork4.5/10
- Q3/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- Spin6/10
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Tracks
- 1Back to Front (Circular Logic)2:04
- 2Border Crossing3:36
- 3Stay the Course3:36
- 4I've Been Trying3:12
- 5Sad and Lonely3:09
- 6Warning Call3:35
- 7Tedium2:26
- 8Enemy Lines5:23
- 9Going Nowhere0:28
- 10Redeemed4:26
- 11Run for Your Life3:24
- 12Give Me Back the Nights3:54
- 13I Gotta Rokk6:29
- 14Scale It Back4:16
- 15Circular Logic (Front to Back)4:55
- 16(Not So) Sad and Lonely4:29
- 17Def Surrounds Us7:37
17 tracks, 67 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- DJ Shadow
- Label
- [PIAS] Recordings
- Released
- 2011
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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