One Nation (Hype Williams album)

One Nation is an album by British musical duo Hype Williams. It was released on 14 March 2011 through Hippos in Tanks record label.[3]

One Nation
Studio album by
Hype Williams
Released14 March 2011 (2011-03-14)
Genre
Length44:14
LabelHippos in Tanks
Hype Williams chronology
Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, and Start Gettin' Reel
(2011)		 One Nation
(2011)		 The Attitude Era
(2012)

Background and composition

The Guardian describes the record's sound as “all woozy basslines, stuttering tempos and glacial washes of synths that feel like a hollowing out of several narrative strands in pop history."[4] Self-Titled Mag called One Nation "as blunted as hypnagogic pop gets."[1] Pitchfork critic Paul Thompson wrote: "At its best, One Nation sounds like a beat tape left to crackle for a decade in somebody's garage. [...] a spacious, hazy, hip-hop-influenced electronic dub.[2] It has been compared to the works of Daniel Lopatin, Ariel Pink, and Boards of Canada, and has been characterized as drawing influences from G-funk, synthpop, horror movie soundtracks,[2] classic R&B and Chicago house.[5] The album also features spoken word fragments[6]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic70/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
Drowned in Sound7/10[5]
The Guardian[4]
NME[8]
Pitchfork6.4/10[2]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 8 reviews.[7] Drowned in Sound critic Noel Gardner described Hype Williams as "a brace of obnoxious, always-switched-on jokers whose music has actual depth and beauty, as much as their M.O. might try to disguise it." Gardner further commented: "If you had to single out something as being symbolic of 2011, you could do a lot worse than this album."[5] The Guardian's Caspar Llewellyn Smith stated: "And while, for some, two spoken-word tracks – Untitled and Untitled (And Your Batty's So Round) – may bring to mind nothing so much as Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen), others may find it all strangely addictive."[4] Tim Chester of NME thought that the record lacks cohesion and "the songwriting spark of Ariel Pink", eventually writing: "Like making a time capsule and filling it full of junk, '‘One Nation''s oddball ephemera might seem more intriguing to good citizens of the future than it does to us."[8]

Track listing
  1. "Ital" – 3:14
  2. "Untitled" – 2:28
  3. "William, Shotgun Sprayer" – 4:30
  4. "Businessline" – 3:37
  5. "Warlord" – 4:57
  6. "Dragon Stout" – 1:04
  7. "Homegrown" – 1:41
  8. "Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior" – 2:12
  9. "Unfaithful" – 1:40
  10. "Mitsubishi" – 7:48
  11. "Jah" – 3:17
  12. "Break4love" – 3:04
  13. "Untitled (And Your Batty's So Round)" – 4:42
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References
  1. "COMING SOON: HYPE WILLIAMS, 'ONE NATION'". Self-Titled Mag. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  2. Thompson, Paul (16 March 2011). "Album review: Hype Williams – One Nation". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. "Hype Williams – One Nation". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  4. Smith, Caspar Llewellyn (24 March 2011). "Hype Williams: One Nation – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  5. Gardner, Noel (13 April 2011). "Hype Williams – One Nation". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  6. "Hype Williams – One Nation review". Mojo: 110. May 2011.
  7. "Hype Williams – One Nation". Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  8. Chester, Tim (6 April 2011). "Album Review: Hype Williams – One Nation (Hippos In Tanks)". NME. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
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