Metropolis and The Legendary Roots Crew
Discover the origin story that led to an ongoing collaboration between The Roots and Metropolis, and their new studio album, Undun.
New York Times: The Roots: 2 Albums, One Quest
The album has an instrumental coda… an elegiac string quartet and a last dissonant piano chord, an unpeaceful final rest.
The Guardian: Undun Review
Undun is also a mirror held up to present-day America, where ambitions are more likely to die than prosper. It's a downer, but timely and affecting, with moments of beauty.
Chicago Tribune: Undun Review
A gorgeous neo-classical suite closes the album… If an album can be both chilling and beautiful at once, "Undun" is it.
NPR: First Listen: Undun
Finally, credits roll over a sublime string quartet, mercifully for Black Thought's black thoughts — at least for a moment, before ?uestlove's meticulously arranged strings are silenced by the chilling, deathly growl of a struck piano.