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Phrenology (album)

January 07, 2023

Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released on November 26, 2002, by MCA Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during June 2000 to September 2002[1] at Electric Lady Studios in New York.[2] It was primarily produced by members of the band and features contributions from hip hop and neo soul artists such as Cody ChesnuTT, Musiq Soulchild, Talib Kweli, and Jill Scott.

Phrenology
Studio album by
The Roots
ReleasedNovember 26, 2002
RecordedJune 2000–September 2002
StudioElectric Lady (New York)
Genre
Length70:17
LabelMCA
ProducerDJ Scratch, The Grand Wizzards, Kamal Gray, Tahir Jamal, Omar the Scholar, Questlove, Karreem Riggins, Scott Storch, Zoukhan Bey
The Roots chronology
Things Fall Apart
(1999) 		Phrenology
(2002) 		The Tipping Point
(2004)
Singles from Phrenology
  1. "Break You Off"
    Released: 2002
  2. "The Seed (2.0)"
    Released: March 31, 2003

Although it did not parallel the commercial success of the band's previous album, Things Fall Apart, the album reached number 28 on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold steadily, remaining on the chart for 38 weeks.[3] On June 3, 2003, it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.[4] Upon its release, Phrenology received universal acclaim from music critics, who praised its musical direction and lyrical themes, and it was included in numerous publications' year-end lists of the year's best albums.[5]

Background

Following the breakthrough success of Things Fall Apart (1999), its release was highly anticipated and delayed, as recording took two years.[1][6] The album is named after the discredited pseudoscience of phrenology, the study of head shapes to determine intelligence and character, which was used to rationalize racism during the 19th century in the United States.[7] Its cover art was created by artist/printmaker Tom Huck.[8]

Music and lyrics

Primarily a hip hop album, Phrenology features lyrical themes of hip hop culture and its commodification, with musical elements of rock, jazz, techno, hardcore punk, and soul music.[6][9][10][11][12] According to music critic Greg Kot, the Roots forge a connection between hip hop and neo soul on the album,[13] while Treble writer says it can "best be described" as progressive rap,[14] and Entertainment Weekly's Raymond Fiore calls it the band's "left-field rock-rap opus".[15] A production of the Soulquarians collective,[16] the album features contributions by Cody ChesnuTT, Musiq Soulchild, Talib Kweli, and Jill Scott.[1]

On "Something in the Way of Things (In Town)", Amiri Baraka performs a poem about how the spirit of death and decay permeates African-American urban experiences. Set to a fusion of several African-American music influences, his poem observes "something in the way of our selves" and uses unusual imagery such as death "riding on top of the car peering through the windshield" and a "Negro squinting at us through the cage" with a smile "that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks".[17]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic87/100[18]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Blender     [19]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[20]
The Guardian     [9]
Los Angeles Times    [12]
Pitchfork8.1/10[10]
Q     [21]
Rolling Stone     [22]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [23]
Spin8/10[24]
The Village VoiceA−[25]

Phrenology received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on 23 reviews.[18] Mojo magazine hailed it as a "masterpiece",[26] while Rolling Stone writer Pat Blashill said it has "a startling array of hip-hop reinventions".[22] Dave Heaton from PopMatters called Phrenology "an impressive, ambitious work" that shows the Roots "filling their sound out and pushing it in a variety of directions", with a form of "tight soul/funk" that "sounds even more exact, funkier and edgier" than on Things Fall Apart.[27] In the Chicago Sun-Times, critic Jim DeRogatis gave the record four out of four stars and called it "a near-classic right out of the gate, an urgent, raucous and thought-provoking 70 minutes that mine the musical territory between hard hip-hop and smoother Philly soul".[28] Blender's RJ Smith called it "a celebration of self-determination, a nonstop joyride through some very complicated brains".[19] Jeremy Gladstone from Kludge felt the Roots had combined "complicated beats" with "complex lyrics" to produce a "shockingly honest sound".[29] In The Guardian, Alexis Petridis found the group "exclusively capable of absorbing other genres", while the "more straightforward hip-hop" is "idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable".[9] Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani called the album "subtly progressive" and felt the lyrics "challenge the commodification and subsequent destruction of hip-hop culture".[11]

In a less enthusiastic review, Uncut magazine said Phrenology shows the Roots' "willingness to push the envelope of their organic jazz-rap" that is unparalleled but sometimes musically pretentious or indulgent, particularly on "Something in the Way of Things" and the coda to "Water".[30] AllMusic editor Steve Huey felt it is "a challenging, hugely ambitious opus that's by turns brilliant and bewildering, as it strains to push the very sound of hip-hop into the future." He also called it the band's "hardest-hitting" album because they successfully "re-create their concert punch in the studio."[1] In his column for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau believed the Roots have finally discovered how to write tuneful and structured music on Phrenology,[25] as they "humanize their formal commitment with injections of singing and guitar".[31]

At the end of 2002, Phrenology was named one of the year's best albums.[32] It was voted the seventh best album of 2002 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics.[33] The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) later gave it four-and-a-half stars and cited "Water" as a highlight, "that begins with the age-old Bo Diddley beat and ends as an extended musique concrète-style instrumental fantasia".[6] Phrenology was included in the 2010 reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die[34] and in Tom Moon's 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (2008). Slant Magazine listed the album at number 231 on its "Top 250 Albums of the 2000s" (2010). Based on such listings, Acclaimed Music ranks Phrenology as the 19th most acclaimed album of 2002 and the 177th most acclaimed album of the 2000s.[32]

Track listing

Information is adapted from the album's liner notes.[8] "(co.)" denotes Co-producer.

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Phrentrow" (featuring Ursula Rucker)Ahmir Thompson, Ursula Rucker, Omar EdwardsQuestlove, Omar the Scholar0:18
2."Rock You"Tariq Trotter, George SpiveyDJ Scratch, The Grand Wizzards (co.)3:12
3."!!!!!!!"Thompson, Benjamin Kenney, Leonard HubbardThe Grand Wizzards0:24
4."Sacrifice" (featuring Nelly Furtado)Trotter, Thompson, James Gray, HubbardKamiah Gray, Kamal Gray (co.)4:44
5."Rolling with Heat" (featuring Talib Kweli)Trotter, Thompson, Gray, Kyle Jones, Talib Greene, Karl JenkinsThe Grand Wizzards3:42
6."WAOK (Ay) Rollcall" (featuring Ursula Rucker)Thompson, Gray, HubbardThe Grand Wizzards1:00
7."Thought @ Work"Trotter, Thompson, Hubbard, Gray, KenneyQuestlove4:58
8."The Seed (2.0)" (featuring Cody ChesnuTT)Trotter, Antonious Bernard ThomasQuestlove, Cody ChesnuTT (co.)4:27
9."Break You Off" (featuring Musiq)Trotter, Thompson, Hubbard, Gray, Jones, Kenney, Jenkins, Taalib Johnson, Jill ScottKamal Gray7:27
10."Water"Trotter, Thompson, Hubbard, Gray, Kenney, Tahir WilliamsTahir Jamal, Kelo Saunders (co.), The Grand Wizzards (co.)10:24
11."Quills"Trotter, Karriem RigginsKarreem Riggins, The Grand Wizzards (co.)4:22
12."Pussy Galore"Trotter, Scott StorchScott Storch, Zoukhan Bey4:29
13."Complexity" (featuring Jill Scott)Trotter, Thompson, Hubbard, Gray, Scott, EdwardsThe Grand Wizzards, Questlove (co.), Omar the Scholar (co.)4:47
14."Something in the Way of Things (In Town)" (featuring Amiri Baraka)Thompson, Kenney, Amiri BarakaThe Grand Wizzards7:16
Unlisted tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."Rhymes and Ammo" (featuring Talib Kweli)Trotter, Thompson, GreeneThe Grand Wizzards4:32
16."Thirsty!"  2:47

Sample credits and notes

  • "Thought @ Work" contains elements from the composition "Apache" by The Sugarhill Gang, "Jam on the Groove" by Ralph McDonald, and "Human Beat Box" by The Fat Boys. According to Questlove, recording artist Alicia Keys "drop[s] in" on the track.[8]
  • "Water" comprises three parts, noted in Questlove's liner notes as "a. the first movement / b. the abyss / c. the drowning", and contains elements of "Her Story" by The Flying Lizards.[8]
  • "Quills" contains elements of "Breakout" by Swing Out Sister and features guest vocals from Tracey Moore of the Jazzyfatnastees.[8]
  • "Pussy Galore" contains elements of "Because I Got It Like That" by the Jungle Brothers.[8]
  • On the CD version of the album, there are 18 tracks instead of 16: Tracks 15, 16 and 17 are silent blank tracks.[1] Track 18 starts with another 2:00 of silence, and after that consists of two untitled songs, identified as "Rhymes and Ammo", originally from Soundbombing III (2002)[35] and featuring Talib Kweli, and "Thirsty!", which is originally a track by Elektrochemie LK called "When I Rock".[36]

Personnel

Credits for Phrenology adapted from Allmusic.[37]

Musicians

Production

Charts

Singles

Song Chart (2002) Peak
position
"Break You Off" UK Singles Chart[44] 59
US Billboard Hot 100[51] 99
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks[52] 55
Song Chart (2003) Peak
position
"The Seed (2.0)" Danish Singles Chart[53] 2
Dutch Singles Chart[54] 35
Finnish Singles Chart[55] 5
German Singles Chart[56] 67
Swiss Singles Chart[57] 22
UK Singles Chart[44] 33

See also

References

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Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots released on November 26 2002 by MCA Records Recording sessions for the album took place during June 2000 to September 2002 1 at Electric Lady Studios in New York 2 It was primarily produced by members of the band and features contributions from hip hop and neo soul artists such as Cody ChesnuTT Musiq Soulchild Talib Kweli and Jill Scott PhrenologyStudio album by The RootsReleasedNovember 26 2002RecordedJune 2000 September 2002StudioElectric Lady New York GenreHip hop progressive rap neo soul rap rockLength70 17LabelMCAProducerDJ Scratch The Grand Wizzards Kamal Gray Tahir Jamal Omar the Scholar Questlove Karreem Riggins Scott Storch Zoukhan BeyThe Roots chronologyThings Fall Apart 1999 Phrenology 2002 The Tipping Point 2004 Singles from Phrenology Break You Off Released 2002 The Seed 2 0 Released March 31 2003Although it did not parallel the commercial success of the band s previous album Things Fall Apart the album reached number 28 on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold steadily remaining on the chart for 38 weeks 3 On June 3 2003 it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 500 000 copies in the United States 4 Upon its release Phrenology received universal acclaim from music critics who praised its musical direction and lyrical themes and it was included in numerous publications year end lists of the year s best albums 5 Contents 1 Background 2 Music and lyrics 3 Critical reception 4 Track listing 5 Personnel 5 1 Musicians 5 2 Production 6 Charts 6 1 Weekly charts 6 2 Year end charts 6 3 Singles 7 See also 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External linksBackground EditFollowing the breakthrough success of Things Fall Apart 1999 its release was highly anticipated and delayed as recording took two years 1 6 The album is named after the discredited pseudoscience of phrenology the study of head shapes to determine intelligence and character which was used to rationalize racism during the 19th century in the United States 7 Its cover art was created by artist printmaker Tom Huck 8 Music and lyrics EditPrimarily a hip hop album Phrenology features lyrical themes of hip hop culture and its commodification with musical elements of rock jazz techno hardcore punk and soul music 6 9 10 11 12 According to music critic Greg Kot the Roots forge a connection between hip hop and neo soul on the album 13 while Treble writer says it can best be described as progressive rap 14 and Entertainment Weekly s Raymond Fiore calls it the band s left field rock rap opus 15 A production of the Soulquarians collective 16 the album features contributions by Cody ChesnuTT Musiq Soulchild Talib Kweli and Jill Scott 1 On Something in the Way of Things In Town Amiri Baraka performs a poem about how the spirit of death and decay permeates African American urban experiences Set to a fusion of several African American music influences his poem observes something in the way of our selves and uses unusual imagery such as death riding on top of the car peering through the windshield and a Negro squinting at us through the cage with a smile that ain t a smile but teeth flying against our necks 17 Critical reception EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic87 100 18 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 1 Blender 19 Entertainment WeeklyB 20 The Guardian 9 Los Angeles Times 12 Pitchfork8 1 10 10 Q 21 Rolling Stone 22 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 23 Spin8 10 24 The Village VoiceA 25 Phrenology received widespread acclaim from critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications the album received an average score of 87 based on 23 reviews 18 Mojo magazine hailed it as a masterpiece 26 while Rolling Stone writer Pat Blashill said it has a startling array of hip hop reinventions 22 Dave Heaton from PopMatters called Phrenology an impressive ambitious work that shows the Roots filling their sound out and pushing it in a variety of directions with a form of tight soul funk that sounds even more exact funkier and edgier than on Things Fall Apart 27 In the Chicago Sun Times critic Jim DeRogatis gave the record four out of four stars and called it a near classic right out of the gate an urgent raucous and thought provoking 70 minutes that mine the musical territory between hard hip hop and smoother Philly soul 28 Blender s RJ Smith called it a celebration of self determination a nonstop joyride through some very complicated brains 19 Jeremy Gladstone from Kludge felt the Roots had combined complicated beats with complex lyrics to produce a shockingly honest sound 29 In The Guardian Alexis Petridis found the group exclusively capable of absorbing other genres while the more straightforward hip hop is idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable 9 Slant Magazine s Sal Cinquemani called the album subtly progressive and felt the lyrics challenge the commodification and subsequent destruction of hip hop culture 11 In a less enthusiastic review Uncut magazine said Phrenology shows the Roots willingness to push the envelope of their organic jazz rap that is unparalleled but sometimes musically pretentious or indulgent particularly on Something in the Way of Things and the coda to Water 30 AllMusic editor Steve Huey felt it is a challenging hugely ambitious opus that s by turns brilliant and bewildering as it strains to push the very sound of hip hop into the future He also called it the band s hardest hitting album because they successfully re create their concert punch in the studio 1 In his column for The Village Voice Robert Christgau believed the Roots have finally discovered how to write tuneful and structured music on Phrenology 25 as they humanize their formal commitment with injections of singing and guitar 31 At the end of 2002 Phrenology was named one of the year s best albums 32 It was voted the seventh best album of 2002 in The Village Voice s Pazz amp Jop an annual poll of American critics 33 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004 later gave it four and a half stars and cited Water as a highlight that begins with the age old Bo Diddley beat and ends as an extended musique concrete style instrumental fantasia 6 Phrenology was included in the 2010 reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 34 and in Tom Moon s 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die 2008 Slant Magazine listed the album at number 231 on its Top 250 Albums of the 2000s 2010 Based on such listings Acclaimed Music ranks Phrenology as the 19th most acclaimed album of 2002 and the 177th most acclaimed album of the 2000s 32 Track listing EditInformation is adapted from the album s liner notes 8 co denotes Co producer No TitleWriter s Producer s Length1 Phrentrow featuring Ursula Rucker Ahmir Thompson Ursula Rucker Omar EdwardsQuestlove Omar the Scholar0 182 Rock You Tariq Trotter George SpiveyDJ Scratch The Grand Wizzards co 3 123 Thompson Benjamin Kenney Leonard HubbardThe Grand Wizzards0 244 Sacrifice featuring Nelly Furtado Trotter Thompson James Gray HubbardKamiah Gray Kamal Gray co 4 445 Rolling with Heat featuring Talib Kweli Trotter Thompson Gray Kyle Jones Talib Greene Karl JenkinsThe Grand Wizzards3 426 WAOK Ay Rollcall featuring Ursula Rucker Thompson Gray HubbardThe Grand Wizzards1 007 Thought Work Trotter Thompson Hubbard Gray KenneyQuestlove4 588 The Seed 2 0 featuring Cody ChesnuTT Trotter Antonious Bernard ThomasQuestlove Cody ChesnuTT co 4 279 Break You Off featuring Musiq Trotter Thompson Hubbard Gray Jones Kenney Jenkins Taalib Johnson Jill ScottKamal Gray7 2710 Water Trotter Thompson Hubbard Gray Kenney Tahir WilliamsTahir Jamal Kelo Saunders co The Grand Wizzards co 10 2411 Quills Trotter Karriem RigginsKarreem Riggins The Grand Wizzards co 4 2212 Pussy Galore Trotter Scott StorchScott Storch Zoukhan Bey4 2913 Complexity featuring Jill Scott Trotter Thompson Hubbard Gray Scott EdwardsThe Grand Wizzards Questlove co Omar the Scholar co 4 4714 Something in the Way of Things In Town featuring Amiri Baraka Thompson Kenney Amiri BarakaThe Grand Wizzards7 16 Unlisted tracksNo TitleWriter s Producer s Length15 Rhymes and Ammo featuring Talib Kweli Trotter Thompson GreeneThe Grand Wizzards4 3216 Thirsty 2 47 Sample credits and notes Thought Work contains elements from the composition Apache by The Sugarhill Gang Jam on the Groove by Ralph McDonald and Human Beat Box by The Fat Boys According to Questlove recording artist Alicia Keys drop s in on the track 8 Water comprises three parts noted in Questlove s liner notes as a the first movement b the abyss c the drowning and contains elements of Her Story by The Flying Lizards 8 Quills contains elements of Breakout by Swing Out Sister and features guest vocals from Tracey Moore of the Jazzyfatnastees 8 Pussy Galore contains elements of Because I Got It Like That by the Jungle Brothers 8 On the CD version of the album there are 18 tracks instead of 16 Tracks 15 16 and 17 are silent blank tracks 1 Track 18 starts with another 2 00 of silence and after that consists of two untitled songs identified as Rhymes and Ammo originally from Soundbombing III 2002 35 and featuring Talib Kweli and Thirsty which is originally a track by Elektrochemie LK called When I Rock 36 Personnel EditCredits for Phrenology adapted from Allmusic 37 Musicians Edit Black Thought vocals Sarah Chun cello Omar Edwards arp synthesizer Nelly Furtado background vocals Michelle Golder cello Kamal Gray keyboards theremin production Jef Lee Johnson guitar Alicia Keys featured artist Talib Kweli vocals Malik B featured artist Tracey Moore background music Mos Def featured artist James Poyser moog synthesizer strings Questlove assistant engineer drums mixing production sequencing Rahzel beatboxing Ursula Rucker featured artist Jill Scott vocals James Blood Ulmer guitar Nuah Vi cello Hope Wilson screams Ben Kenney guitar Production Edit Jon Adler assistant Pablo Arraya assistant Jim Bottari engineer Andrew Brooks assistant Cody ChesnuTT producer Jeff Chestek engineer mixing Tom Coyne assistant mastering mixing Kareem Da Bawl producer Andre Dandridge assistant DJ Scratch producer Robert LB Dorsey assistant engineer Caliph Gamble assistant Chris Gehringer mastering Gordon Glass assistant Jason Goldstein mixing Kenny J Gravillis design Tom Evil Prints Huck illustrations Ben Kenney mixing Steve Mandel assistant engineer Carlos Storm Martinez engineer James McKrone assistant Shinobu Mitsuoka assistant Kurt Nepogoda assistant Richard Nichols executive producer mixing Omar the Scholar producer Bob Power mixing Kareem Riggins producer Kelo Saunders producer Jesse Shatkin assistant Jon Smeltz engineer Scott Storch producer Tahir producer Shawn Taylor assistant Steef Van De Gevel assistant Vince Vilorenzo assistant Scott Whiting assistant Ray Wilson engineerCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2002 03 PeakpositionDanish Albums Hitlisten 38 29Dutch Albums Album Top 100 39 54Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 40 14French Albums SNEP 41 117Italian Albums FIMI 42 18Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 43 57UK Albums OCC 44 112US Billboard 200 45 28US Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard 46 11 Year end charts Edit Year end chart performance for Phrenology Chart 2002 PositionCanadian R amp B Albums Nielsen SoundScan 47 113Canadian Rap Albums Nielsen SoundScan 48 63Chart 2003 PositionUS Billboard 200 49 117US Top R amp B Hip Hop Albums Billboard 50 50 Singles Edit Song Chart 2002 Peakposition Break You Off UK Singles Chart 44 59US Billboard Hot 100 51 99US Hot R amp B Hip Hop Singles amp Tracks 52 55Song Chart 2003 Peakposition The Seed 2 0 Danish Singles Chart 53 2Dutch Singles Chart 54 35Finnish Singles Chart 55 5German Singles Chart 56 67Swiss Singles Chart 57 22UK Singles Chart 44 33See also EditProgressive rap SoulquariansReferences Edit a b c d e f Huey Steve Phrenology The Roots AllMusic Retrieved August 11 2009 Gonzales Michael March 19 2015 Love 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