- hip hop, hip-hop, alternative hip hop
- 71 min
- 18 tracks
- MCA Records
Things Fall Apart is the fourth studio album by American hip-hop band the Roots, released on February 23, 1999, by MCA Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Electric Lady during 1997 to 1998, coinciding with recording for other projects of the Soulquarians collective, including D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000), Erykah Badu's Baduizm (1997), and Common's One Day It'll All Make Sense (1997).
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Spare, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Alternative Press4/5
- Entertainment WeeklyB
- Muzik5/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork9.4/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Spin9/10
- The Village VoiceB+
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Tracks
- 1Act Won (Things Fall Apart)0:54
- 2Table of Contents, Parts 1 & 23:37
- 3The Next Movement4:10
- 4Step Into the Realm2:49
- 5The Spark3:53
- 6Dynamite!4:46
- 7Without a Doubt4:15
- 8Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New4:34
- 9Double Trouble5:50
- 10Act Too (The Love of My Life)4:55
- 11100% Dundee3:53
- 12Diedre vs. Dice0:47
- 13Adrenaline!4:28
- 143rd Acts: ? vs. Scratch 2… Electric Boogaloo0:51
- 15You Got Me4:19
- 16Don’t See Us4:30
- 17The Return to Innocence Lost11:55
- 18Act Fore… The End?0:05
18 tracks, 71 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Roots
- Label
- MCA Records
- Released
- February 22, 1999
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.
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