Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Disc 1
1	Intro 1:29
2	Ghetto Musick 3:56
3	Unhappy 3:19
4	Bowtie / Sleepy Brown 3:56
5	The Way You Move / Sleepy Brown 3:54
6	The Rooster 3:57
7	Bust / Killer Mike 3:08
8	War 2:43
9	Church 3:27
10	Bamboo (Interlude) 2:09
11	Tomb of the Boom / Konkrete 4:46
12	E-Mac (Interlude) 0:24
13	Knowing 3:32
14	Flip Flop Rock / Killer Mike 4:35
15	Interlude 1:15
16	Reset / Khujo Goodie 4:35
17	D-Boi (Interlude) 0:40
18	Last Call / Mello 3:57
19	Bowtie (Postlude) 0:34
Disc 2
1	The Love Below (Intro) 1:27
2	Love Hater 2:49
3	God (Interlude) 2:20
4	Happy Valentine's Day 5:23
5	Spread 3:51
6	Where Are My Panties? 1:54
7	Prototype 5:26
8	She Lives in My Lap / Rosario Dawson 4:27
9	Hey Ya! 3:55
10	Roses 6:09
11	Good Day, Good Sir 1:24
12	Behold a Lady 4:37
13	Pink & Blue 5:04
14	Love in War 3:25
15	She's Alive 4:06
16	Dracula's Wedding / Kelis 2:32
17	My Favorite Things / Norah Jones 5:13
18	Take Off Your Cool 2:38
19	Vibrate 6:33
20	A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete) 5:11

Barnes & Noble

With this double-disc magnum opus, Outkast prove that as a group they exceed the sum of their parts. Splitting production responsibilities and artistic visions down the middle, Big Boi and Andre 3000 provide one big, genre-bending, futuristic gangsta's paradise but come up short on the cohesive masterpiece fans may have expected after Aquemini and the Grammy-winning Stankonia. Big Boi's Speakerboxxx is a hop, skip, and a jump from the latter's funky synth workouts, machine-gun drum patterns, ball-breaking bass, and rat-a-ta-tat rhyming. Closest to the OutKast of yore, Big Boi's 20-track disc doesn't have the infectious hooks of past releases. Still, tracks such as "Bowtie" with its big-band horns, the velvety croon of "The Way You Move," and the hyper-kinetic bass thumps of "Ghettomusick" show his knack for undeniably progressive hip-hop. On the flip side, Andre 3000's The Love Below largely owes its breezy falsetto vocals, guitar riffs, new wave funk, and love/sex/lust obsessions to Prince and Sly Stone. Dre only occasionally raps: Whether it be over the slow-burn funk of "Prototype," the Beatles-esque love ditty "Hey Ya!", the Middle Eastern–accented melody of "She Lives in My Lap," or the syncopated electro-pings of "Pink and Blue," Dre's not afraid to wail. Things go awry with a self-indulgent drum 'n' bass reworking of "My Favorite Things." Yet, when he returns to his rhyming roots on the finale, "A Life in the Day of Andre Benjamin," it's apparent he still can spit with the best MCs. Dre and OutKast's goals are higher than that, though. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below seems designed to unlock as many musical doors as possible in a creative tour de force. Mission accomplished. For their next trick, let's see Dre and Big Boi put it all back together. Brett Johnson

New York Times

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, splits the dynamic duo's music down the middle, with the Speakerboxx disc devoted entirely to Big Boi, the group's resident gangsta, and The Love Below CD devoted entirely to Andre, its healthy chunk of granola. Lola Ogunnaike

Entertainment Weekly

You need to look back to vintage Prince, Funkadelic, and Sly & the Family Stone for a mix of funky pop and widescreen aesthetic madness comparable to what you get on Speakerboxxx/The Love Below....But there's much more here than recycled influences. (A) Will Hermes

Los Angeles Times

Conceived as two separate solo albums, the sounds and themes vary greatly -- and always with pleasing results. Kris Ex

MTV News

Andre 3000, who wants to blow up in Hollywood, pulls from his jazz, funk and, most prominently, R&B influences to tell a bevy of love stories, while Big Boi sticks to the Kast's brand of eclectic hip-hop space tripping. The almost-ten-year vets continue to throw rap's rule book to the wayside and experiment with the abnormal. Shaheem Reid

Rolling Stone Online

Big Boi is trying to shoulder the burden of OutKast on Speakerboxxx -- to essentially re-create the group on his own. With The Love Below, Andre 3000 has packed up what he wanted to keep from the group (the right to be peculiar in a hip-hop context), slung it over his shoulder and headed out toward parts unknown. Jon Caramanica