Earl Sweatshirt Sick! *

"His elliptic, woozy songwriting, crammed with texture and motion, yet shunning structure and cogency, subverted ideas about how rap songs could sound and be arranged. SICK! continues that trend, charting new territory for Earl while continuing to subtly dissect rap conventions."
Billboard - "With brooding production and few choruses to latch onto, Earl instead opts for an extended spotlight on heavyweight verses on from himself and his cohorts, seldom departing from a conversational tone, but never needing to do so to get his points across."
4 stars out of 5 -- "'Vision' harks back to the dreamy, experimental productions of the early 2010s, which still kept pure hip-hop ideals like clear dictation and striking bars. It's an utterly head-bumping track that offers an intense lesson on expert flow and rhyming schemes."
Paste (magazine) - "Earl has continued to refine and innovate his distinct, calculated delivery and lyricism....More than anything, Earl shows a tremendous amount of growth."
Pitchfork (Website) - "The raps are as thoughtful and tightly coiled as ever, but now he's clearer and more confident, approaching his past and his future with hope."
Clash (Magazine) - "The production work is impeccable, its dizzying imaginative flurry the perfect hinge against Earl's lyrical precision. Short but emphatically creative, it presents an entire universe to explore, with its finer details laying in wait for repeated listens."