Nothing Is Quick in the Desert

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert is the fourteenth studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy. The album was released on June 30, 2017, on Bandcamp.[2]

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert
Studio album by
Public Enemy
ReleasedJune 30, 2017
GenreHip hop
Length40:45
LabelSpitdigital
ProducerDavid “CDOC” Snyder, Carl Ryder
Public Enemy chronology
Man Plans God Laughs
(2015)		 Nothing Is Quick in the Desert
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic71/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating

Background

“‘Nothing Is Quick In The Desert‘ is a saying I use when the average person looks at the record industry,” Chuck D said in a statement. “It looks dead like a desert. But there’s plenty of life in the desert when one is educated on what they see and hear. There, a cactus absorbs and stores water deep in its root, taken from the air itself and certain creatures thrive in that dry heat whereas the average cannot. It pays to be above average (or well below it) in the desert for survival. The music industry is similar in that analogy. It’s still in motion, it just needs redefinition.” [3] The album features guest appearances from such artists as Ice-T, Mo Bee, Prophets of Rage, EPMD's Parrish Smith, Solé, and Sammy Vegas

Critical reception


Nothing Is Quick In The Desert received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71 based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[4]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Nothing Is Quick In The Desert"1:21
2."sPEak!"3:33
3."Yesterday Man"4:21
4."Exit Your Mind"0:52
5."Beat Them All"2:56
6."Smash The Crowd"3:33
7."If You Can't Join Em Beat Em"1:28
8."So Be It"3:51
9."SOC MED Digital Heroin"3:55
10."Terrorwrist"1:58
11."Toxic"3:12
12."Sells Like Teens Hear It"2:58
13."Rest In Beats (Part 1 & 2)"6:54
Total length:40:45
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References
  1. "Reviews Nothing Is Quick in the Desert by Public Enemy". Metacritic. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  2. Blistein, Jon (2017-06-29). "Public Enemy Release Surprise New Album 'Nothing Is Quick in the Desert'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
  3. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-release-surprise-new-album-nothing-is-quick-in-the-desert-194089/
  4. "Reviews for Man Plans God Laughs by Public Enemy". Metacritic. San Francisco, California: Fandango Media. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
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