If you like more of the same, you'll like Eminem's new album.
That's the message from reviewer Adam Graham of The Detroit News:
It's called "Revival," but for Eminem, his new album is more of the same.
Nine albums in, we know what to expect from a visit with Slim Shady: self-examination of his legacy and his level of motivation; updates on the holy (and often unholy) trinity of women in his life: his mother, his ex-wife, and his daughter; a few joke-rap songs; some horrorcore rhymes about murder and mutilation; a temperature-taking of the nation’s political climate. (The celeb-skewing bowshot was mercifully jettisoned after the bottom-scraping "We Made You," from 2000's "Relapse.")
We get all of this on "Revival," and we get a lot of it. The album weighs in at 19 tracks and nearly 78 minutes, which is as thick and dense as the heaps of Mom’s Spaghetti being served this weekend at Em’s pop-up shop at the Shelter in downtown Detroit. A third of the tracks on the album could go, and no one would miss them.
