Mike D 5D Releases Debut Solo Album, Earning 3 Stars for 'Thank You'
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Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 24
Mike D 5D Releases Debut Solo Album, Earning 3 Stars for 'Thank You'
3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 24
Summary
“Thank You” arrives Friday as Michael Diamond’s debut solo album under Mike D 5D, marking the first new music from the Beastie Boys’ camp since Adam Yauch’s 2012 death.
Opening tracks “Switch Up” and “What We Got” drive the record’s glitchy, overdriven sound, with Diamond backed by his sons Skyler and Davis plus Eddie Ruscha, Will Graefe and Milo Ruscha.
AP’s review gives the album 3 stars out of 5, praising its “messy, noisy glitch-rap fun” and especially “I Don’t Care,” while calling “Crypto” and “Secrets Pt. II” weaker, repetitive misfires.
The review says the album’s main achievement is its willingness to push beyond easy Beastie Boys nostalgia, framing “Thank You” as an inventive if uneven post-Beastie project.