''Sam Baker's Album'' is a studio album by American hip hop producer

Samiyam Sam Baker, better known by his stage name Samiyam, is an American hip hop producer based in Los Angeles, California. Life and career Samiyam released the ''Return'' EP on Hyperdub in 2008. He also released ''Rap Beats Vol. 1'' in the same year. ...

. It was released through

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on June 28, 2011.

Critical reception

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Sam Wiseman of '' The Skinny'' gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, commenting that "''Sam Baker's Album'' works within a fairly narrow set of methodological constraints, but within those, it demonstrates impressive ingenuity." Laurent Fintoni of ''

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'' described it as "the best possible showcase of Samiyam's incredible talent when it comes to swung, synth-heavy music production." Glenn Jackson of ''

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'' wrote, "All in all, most every cut on ''Sam Baker's Album'' is solid in its own right, but maybe 40 minutes is just too much, considering that the lines which box in the instrumental hip-hop genre become only more clear as the album pushes on."

Track listing

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2011 albums Brainfeeder albums Instrumental hip hop albums