FREDDIE GIBBS - YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

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You Only Live 2wice was received positively by critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 76, based on 9 reviews.[8] Nate Patrin of Pitchfork complimented the album's theme of resurrection and Gibbs' delivery, writing that "His vocal command is still stunning, that rough-hewn flexibility in his voice putting across intensity and vulnerability at the same time. And when the beat goes melodramatic (or dramatically mellow)—the aching violin-laced Speakerbomb-produced flip of Sade's "Fear" on "Crushed Glass", molasses-creeping to billowy new age keyboards on "Homesick", satiny vocal-harmony R&B on "Andrea"—each syllable feels like a knuckle busting your eyebrow open. You could look at You Only Live 2wice as a transitional record—and many could see it that way dismissively, given its brief borderline-EP runtime—but whatever turning point this might be in Gibbs' career, it stands to reason that he'll still be making diamonds out of pressure