MC Solaar - MC Solaar

Moving in a new direction

I enjoyed this album...but I still find "Prose Combat" and "Paradisiaque" as the best Solaar albums out there. The beats are really heavy, and I'm curious to know why he's moving in a more "Gangster Moderne" direction...away from the more lucid style of "Qui Seme le Vent".... March 23, 2000

MC Solaar has done it again -- another fantastic album

Anyone who thinks MC Solaar has lost a step with his new album hasn't listened very closely to it. His lyrics are as incisive and fluid as ever, and his musical style is a welcome return to the more jazzy sound found on "qui seme le vent..." This style was lost on "paradisiaque" because he only used Pigale Boom Bass as his mixer. On this latest album, he uses different DJs and the results are obvious. MC Solaar has once again demonstrated his class, style, and superiority over American rap. December 20, 1998

MC Solaar en évolution

Après son album Paradisiaque, la barre était haute pour le rapper français. Bien des critiques ont affirméque son nouvel album était du déjà vu et que Solaar ne pouvait plus surprendre perssonne. Pourtant, son petit dernier est en réalité une évolution de sa personnalité. Avec des textes plus matures qui demandent d'avantage de réflexion, ses détracteurs changeront d'opinions au fur et à mesure qu'ils comprendront la profondeur de ses textes. Quant à la musique, elle est de plus en plus recherchée. December 15, 1998

Il n'y a qu'un MC Solaar

MC Solaar has taken all of the Paris underworld energy and shoots it up in the galaxy through the Eifel Tower. Well, MC Solaar has made maybe his best record, just listen to the "Soopa, Galaktika, Delika, Psykedelika"-"Galaktika" et tu vas comprendre. Rap in french beats any "rapper anglophone". November 7, 1998

Paradise lost in new album

Undoubtedly one of the best French rappers du monde, Mc solaar's new album "Mc Solaar" tends to be a watered down after effect of his grand last album "paradisiaque." While still keeping son "groove" his lyrics have lost the strength of his former songs and instead of being an overwhelming tempest of poesie, tend to emmulate the calm vespers after the storm. This C.D. tends to be just another title put out for profit and probably would have been better on the b-sides of Paradisiaque. After hearing this album one wonders just how many times Mc Solaar can rely on clichés (how many times can he work Pablo Escobar into his songs?) and perhaps life in the 16eme has taken away the sharp dark lyricism of his past, n'est ce pas? November 1, 1998

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