The Less You Know, The BetterDJ Shadow · 2010

rollingstone

7.0

“With its head-snapping break-beat collages and ruminative downtempo jams, Josh Davis’ latest recalls Endtroducing…, a 1996 debut so finely tooled and widely praised, it was hard not to hear everything that followed it as one long sophomore slump. That seems the subtext to the title here, and while this album may lack his debut’s soul-jazz […]”

pitchfork

4.5

“Blending electric guitars, beats, rock, and rap, DJ Shadow's new album finds him back in the mode of crowd-pleasing genre consumption à la UNKLE's Psyence Fiction. Problem is, the particular music he draws from here in no way plays to his strengths.”