Expektoration (Live)
by MF Doom
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Pitchfork
    60
    Expektoration is DOOM at his live-show peak, and people who go into this knowing this set's from six years back might feel a bit more charitable. But releasing a concert album with an "Act 1"/"Intermission"/"Act 2" structure instead of a telltale tracklist, and obscuring its actual place in a years-distant history? That's not supervillainy, that's antagonism.
  2. PopMatters
    60
    In the final analysis, none but the most diehard fan will find this to be a more pleasurable listening experience than any of the excellent studio records he's put out over the past decade. It's not bad, necessarily. It's just inessential.
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    50
    Expektoration offers a strong tracklist, heavy with fan favorites (opener "Hoe Cakes," "Accordion," "Rhymes Like Dimes") and peppered with rarities ("People Places & Things," "Change the Beat"), but it's not the type of strength you can't feel from going back to the originals.
  5. The Wire
    Dec 22, 2010
    40
    As a prank or a statement, Expekoration is a particularly lazy one. [Dec 2010, p.50]
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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. KoolMoT
    Aug 21, 2015
    0
    This is two sections of pre-recorded live shows spliced together. The material is old. The only theme is that you might have heard it at aThis is two sections of pre-recorded live shows spliced together. The material is old. The only theme is that you might have heard it at a DOOM show. This is barrel scraping on a scale only Gold Dust / K7 can be bothered to do.… Full Review »
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