''Big World Small World'' is the second studio album by
Smith & Mighty, released on
Studio !K7
!K7 Music is a music company based in Berlin, Germany that focuses mostly on electronic music. The name is an abbreviation of the company's original Berlin address, Kaiserdamm 7 (it has since relocated, first to Heidestrasse 52, and currently hea ...
in 2000.
Critical reception
Andy Kellman of
AllMusic
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gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying, "It's just a little disappointing that S&M couldn't bring any innovations to the table here, as they have in the far too distant past."
[ Bill Werde of '']CMJ New Music Monthly
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'' said, "It might not make the next easily marketable friendly face of urban music, but it makes for a damn fine album."[
Joshua Klein of '']The A.V. Club
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'' said, "A seamless mix of trip-hop, reggae, dub, rap, R&B, and funk, Smith & Mighty's second album may be the most enjoyable chill-out album since Massive Attack's opening salvo."[ M. Tye Comer of '']CMJ New Music Report
CMJ Holdings Corp. is a music events, online media company and a distributor of up and coming music CDs, originally founded in 1978, which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published two magazines, ''CMJ New Music ...
'' called it "the most socially conscious and, arguably, most poignant album of the trip-hop era."[ Michael Paoletta of '']Billboard
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'' said, "Smith & Mighty have crafted a sound that can be best described as mood music."[
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Track listing
References
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2000 albums
Studio !K7 albums
Smith & Mighty albums
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