Something Wicked This Way Comes (The Herbaliser album)

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Studio album by

The Herbaliser

Released

19 March 2002^[1]

Studio

Train Trax Studios

Genre

Nu jazz, hip hop

Length

54:18

Label

Ninja Tune

Producer

Jake Wherry, Ollie Teeba

The Herbaliser chronology

Session One
(2000)

Something Wicked This Way Comes
(2002)

Herbal Blend
(2003)

Singles from Something Wicked This Way Comes

"Good Girl Gone Bad"
Released: 2002
"Something Wicked / Mr. Holmes"
Released: 2002
"Time 2 Build / Distinguished Jamaican English"
Released: 2002

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Pitchfork	7.0/10^[3]

Something Wicked This Way Comes is the fourth studio album by English jazz hip hop group The Herbaliser. It was released via Ninja Tune on 19 March 2002.^[1] It peaked at number 71 on the UK Albums Chart.^[4]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81% based on 10 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[1]

Nic Kincaid of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "a timely achievement in music, a genre-bending statement of creative poignancy."^[2] Brad Haywood of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.0 out of 10, saying, "The beats are just fine, but they lack the risk or innovation that could potentially make them truly engaging."^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Something Wicked" (featuring Seaming To)	5:10
2.	"Verbal Anime" (featuring Rakaa Iriscience)	3:46
3.	"Time 2 Build" (featuring Blade)	3:24
4.	"24 Carat Blag"	4:08
5.	"Mr. Holmes"	7:18
6.	"Good Girl Gone Bad" (featuring Wildflower)	4:07
7.	"The Hard Stuff"	2:01
8.	"Distinguished Jamaican English" (featuring Phi Life Cypher)	3:32
9.	"Worldwide Connected"	5:06
10.	"The Turnaround"	3:15
11.	"Battle of Bongo Hill"	4:52
12.	"It Ain't Nuttin'" (featuring MF Doom)	2:46
13.	"Unsungsong"	4:53

Charts

Chart	Peak position
French Albums (SNEP)^[5]	113
UK Albums (OCC)^[4]	71

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Something Wicked This Way Comes by The Herbaliser". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b Kincaid, Nic. "Something Wicked - The Herbaliser". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b Haywood, Brad (13 June 2002). "The Herbaliser: Something Wicked This Way Comes". Pitchfork. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Herbaliser". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
^ "Lescharts.com – The Herbaliser – Something Wicked This Way Comes". Hung Medien. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

External links

Something Wicked This Way Comes at Discogs (list of releases)

v t e The Herbaliser
Studio albums	Remedies Blow Your Headphones Very Mercenary Something Wicked This Way Comes Take London Same as It Never Was There Were Seven Bring Out The Sound
Compilation albums	Solid Steel Presents Herbal Blend FabricLive.26 Herbal Tonic
Live albums	Session One

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