Live from Rome

Live from Rome is a solo studio album by American hip hop artist Sole. It was released on Anticon in 2005.

Live from Rome
Studio album by Sole
Released	February 22, 2005 (2005-02-22)[1]
Genre	Hip hop
Length	51:39
Label	Anticon
Producer	Odd Nosdam Alias Controller 7 Telephone Jim Jesus Yasamin Tepr Matt
Sole chronology
Selling Live Water (2003) Live from Rome (2005) A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (2012)
Singles from Live from Rome
"New Single" Released: 2005

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	62/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Cokemachineglow	64/100[3]
Dusted Magazine	favorable[4]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[5]
PopMatters	[6]
Spin	B[7]
Stylus Magazine	C[8]
XLR8R	favorable[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 62, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[2]

Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10 and said, "Sole's socialist screeds work well when he raps them like he means them instead of couching them in layers of affected irony."^[5] Dave Segal of XLR8R called it "Sole's most accomplished opus yet."^[9] Meanwhile, Mike Schiller of PopMatters gave the album 3 stars out of 10, saying, "One or two songs in, the listener is convinced that Sole has something interesting to say; fifteen songs later, he's just an angry young man shouting about whatever."^[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sole, except "Banks of Marble" by Pedestrian.

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Cheap Entertainment"	Odd Nosdam	3:38
2.	"Self Inflicted Wounds"	Alias	4:10
3.	"Predictions"	Controller 7	1:12
4.	"Sin Carne"	Odd Nosdam	3:10
5.	"Entalude"	Yasamin	1:26
6.	"Locust Farm"	Telephone Jim Jesus	1:48
7.	"Every Single One of Us"	Alias	4:09
8.	"A Typical"	Alias	1:27
9.	"Crisis"	Controller 7	2:41
10.	"Manifesto 232"	Odd Nosdam	3:34
11.	"Banks of Marble"	Odd Nosdam	3:03
12.	"Atheist Jihad"	Odd Nosdam	2:55
13.	"Dumb This Down"	Odd Nosdam	3:14
14.	"Imsotired"	Alias	4:20
15.	"On Martyrdom"	Tepr	5:24
16.	"Theme"	Matt	3:53
17.	"Drive By Detournment"	Tepr	4:34
Total length:			51:39

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Sole – vocals, mixing (5, 15, 17)
• Jel – additional vocals (1)
• Pedestrian – additional vocals (1)
• Odd Nosdam – production (1, 4, 10–13), mixing (1, 4, 6, 10–13, 15, 17), additional production (7), additional mixing (7)
• Alias – production (2, 7, 8, 14), mixing (7, 14)
• Jeremy Goody – mixing (2, 3, 8, 9)
• Controller 7 – production (3, 9)
• Yasamin – production (5)
• Telephone Jim Jesus – production (6)
• Bleubird – vocals (12)
• Tepr – production (15, 17)
• Matt – production (16), mixing (16)
• George Horn – mastering