POMPEII // UTILITY

pitchfork

Two of this century’s coldest, most martyrial rap auteurs flex new muscles over a decent batch of ambient plugg beats.

pastemagazine

Historically, Earl and MIKE’s songs have been studies in contrast with oft-beautiful results. But their collaborative album doesn’t work that way. With flows set over glacial beats, almost every song is in the same color.

jake

This is really bad. Seems like people either hate it or love it, and I personally hate it. MIKE’s part has the exact same flow through every track, and also has one of the worst features I’ve ever heard in Niontay on F.E.A.R. Nothing changes on Earl’s part either. They do not work with Surf Gang beats at all. The whole project almost seemed like one big song with nothing changing at all. I respect the art and everything but man this was not for me

nme

a sprawling, two-headed opus from rap’s most restless minds