• Record Label: Big Dada
  • Release Date: Jul 19, 2011
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Mojo
    Dec 12, 2011
    60
    100% Publishing is brimming with energy and ideas. [Aug. 2011, p. 100]
  2. Aug 26, 2011
    60
    Stuck in his salad days, the problem isn't so much what Wiley is doing, it's what everyone else has done in the interim.
  3. The Wire
    Aug 17, 2011
    60
    The production values can't cover for the lack of lyrical pizzazz, [Jul 2011, p.55]
  4. Aug 5, 2011
    60
    I would love to hear what 100% Publishing would sound like coming from an artist completely oblivious to commercial label politics and public pressure. There would be a little less bitter posturing, and a lot more being Wiley.
  5. Q Magazine
    Jul 28, 2011
    60
    It's this kind of unresolved contradiction -- not to mention the flashes of self-deprecating wit -- that makes this return from the brink so fascinating. [August 2011, p. 112]
  6. Uncut
    Jul 28, 2011
    60
    Production-wise, his hallmark arrhythmic snares are now sounding a little rote nearly a decade after their inception. [Aug 2011, p.104]
  7. Jul 12, 2011
    60
    It seems like in each song Wiley is talking about a million different things all at once, but there's always the possibility that it's totally focused and you're just not keeping up. It's hard to tell.
  8. Jun 30, 2011
    60
    The problem for Wiley on 100% Publishing is that things just vary too wildly from song to song.
  9. 40
    Away from his favourite theme, Wiley struggles to bring interest or insight to his workaday observations, and while many of his grimey "eskibeat" grooves have an infectious, spartan quality about them, it's likely that in future they'll be more profitably employed behind other wordsmiths.

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