Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.94) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] finds the Bay-area producer pushing bass mechanics to the fore and drawing from the energy of hyphy, this year's crucial hip-hop movement."

Spin (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The album's prog rock, soul jazz, and arty Britpop find Shadow in a fruitful territory."

Entertainment Weekly (p.94) - "[A] batch of party-rap vocal tracks drenched in hyphy -- California's bodacious big-beat answer to Southern crunk."

Q (p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "As ever, THE OUTSIDER's production is immaculate....Having flirted with the mainstream, DJ Shadow seems happy to retreat back to the margins."

Uncut (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE OUTSIDER sees him making something of a departure, emerging from turntablism's dusty basement and taking inspiration from the streets of his Bay Area home."