Live from Rome

Live from Rome is a solo studio album by American hip hop artist Sole. It was released on Anticon in 2005.

Live from Rome
Studio album by Sole
Released	February 22, 2005 (2005-02-22)[1]
Genre	Hip hop
Length	51:39
Label	Anticon
Producer	Odd Nosdam, Alias, Controller 7, Telephone Jim Jesus, Tepr, Matt
Sole chronology
Selling Live Water (2003) Live from Rome (2005) A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (2012)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	62/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Cokemachineglow	64/100[3]
Dusted Magazine	favorable[4]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[5]
PopMatters	[6]
Spin	B[7]
Stylus Magazine	C[8]
XLR8R	favorable[9]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62% based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10 and said, "Sole's socialist screeds work well when he raps them like he means them instead of couching them in layers of affected irony."[5] Dave Segal of XLR8R called it "Sole's most accomplished opus yet."[9] Meanwhile, Mike Schiller of PopMatters gave the album 3 stars out of 10, saying, "One or two songs in, the listener is convinced that Sole has something interesting to say; fifteen songs later, he's just an angry young man shouting about whatever."[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Cheap Entertainment"	Odd Nosdam	3:38
2.	"Self Inflicted Wounds"	Alias	4:10
3.	"Predictions"	Controller 7	1:12
4.	"Sin Carne"	Odd Nosdam	3:10
5.	"Entalude" (featuring Yasamin)		1:26
6.	"Locust Farm"	Telephone Jim Jesus	1:48
7.	"Every Single One of Us"	Alias	4:09
8.	"A Typical"	Alias	1:27
9.	"Crisis"	Controller 7	2:41
10.	"Manifesto 232"	Odd Nosdam	3:34
11.	"Banks of Marble" (written by Pedestrian)	Odd Nosdam	3:03
12.	"Atheist Jihad" (featuring Bleubird)	Odd Nosdam	2:55
13.	"Dumb This Down"	Odd Nosdam	3:14
14.	"Imsotired"	Alias	4:20
15.	"On Martyrdom"	Tepr	5:24
16.	"Theme"	Matt	3:53
17.	"Drive By Detournment"	Tepr	4:34

References

1. "Discography". Anticon. Archived from the original on February 7, 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
2. "Live From Rome by Sole". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
3. Betz, Chet (February 16, 2005). "Sole: Live From Rome". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on October 26, 2006. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
4. Wilmoth, Charlie (February 24, 2005). "Sole - Live From Rome". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
5. Howe, Brian (February 20, 2005). "Sole: Live From Rome". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
6. Schiller, Mike (April 27, 2005). "Sole: Live from Rome". PopMatters. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
7. Aaron, Charles; Dolan, Jon; Caramanica, Jon; Gross, Joe (April 2005). "Breakdown". Spin: 108.
8. Simmons, Will (March 15, 2005). "Sole - Live From Rome". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
9. Segal, Dave (March 1, 2005). "Sole: Live From Rome". XLR8R. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

External links

• Live from Rome at Discogs (list of releases)