Dame Fortune (album)

Dame Fortune
Studio album by RJD2
Released March 25, 2016 (2016-03-25)
Genre Hip hop, soul
Length 44:01
Label RJ's Electrical Connections
Producer RJD2
RJD2 chronology
More Is Than Isn't
(2013)		 Dame Fortune
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Consequence of SoundC+[3]
Exclaim!7/10[4]
Slant Magazine[5]

Dame Fortune is the sixth studio album by American record producer RJD2.[6] It was released on RJ's Electrical Connections on March 25, 2016.[7] Recorded in Philadelphia, it features guest appearances from Jordan Brown, Son Little, Phonte Coleman, Blueprint, and Josh Krajcik.[8]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Dame Fortune received an average score of 73% based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

David Jeffries of AllMusic gave Dame Fortune 4 stars out of 5, calling it "a culmination album with an artist's evolution pushing things forward with all his strengths in tow."[2] Meanwhile, Adam Kivel of Consequence of Sound gave the album a grade of C+, noting that "[the] entirety of the record, in fact, feels like it's trailing a few years behind."[3]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "A Portal Inward"   2:47
2. "The Roaming Hoard"   2:33
3. "Peace of What" (featuring Jordan Brown) 3:29
4. "The Sheboygan Left"   4:50
5. "A New Theory"   2:04
6. "We Come Alive" (featuring Son Little) 4:34
7. "PF, Day One"   4:55
8. "Saboteur" (featuring Phonte Coleman) 3:59
9. "Your Nostalgic Heart and Lung"   4:42
10. "Up in the Clouds" (featuring Blueprint) 4:48
11. "Band of Matron Saints" (featuring Josh Krajcik) 4:02
12. "Portals Outward"   1:20

References

  1. 1 2 "Dame Fortune by RJD2". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Jeffries, David. "RJD2 - Dame Fortune". AllMusic. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Kivel, Adam (March 24, 2016). "RJD2 – Dame Fortune". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Keating, Daryl (March 23, 2016). "RJD2: Dame Fortune". Exclaim!. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Cataldo, Jesse (March 20, 2016). "RJD2: Dame Fortune". Slant Magazine. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ Brown, Eric Renner (January 6, 2016). "RJD2 announces new album Dame Fortune". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ Reed, Ryan (January 6, 2016). "RJD2 Mines Philly Soul, Social Unrest on New LP, 'Dame Fortune'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  8. ↑ Camp, Zoe (January 6, 2016). "RJD2 Returns With New Album Dame Fortune, Shares "Peace of What"". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved March 26, 2016.

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