Ok I just read some reviews on Tittsworth’s Album…
The first that I read is from XLR8R
Hailing from DC but aesthetically linked to Baltimore, DJ/producer Jesse Tittsworth makes tracks that don’t always uphold the grand tradition of that neighboring city’s venerated club scene. His debut LP here is an unabashed party record that relies too heavily on humor and guest appearances to hide a dearth of inventive beatmaking. A handful of winning tracks (“911” and “Tear the Club Up 2008”) offer clattering percussion for a propulsive, high-energy sound, and “4.21” manages a fair Justice impression, but elsewhere things go downhill fast: Baltimore shout-out “B-Rockin’,” is sadly just a watered-down retooling of Daft Punk’s “Teachers.”
http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/tittsworth/twelve-steps
The second is from Pitchforkmedia
Tittsworth has produced, by and large, an album of potential novelty singles. That’s fine– you can argue that some of the best records are novelty records– but the problem is that most of the tracks on 12 Steps are neither particularly novel nor memorable. The guitar-coated “Almond Joy” begs you to– wait for it– “play with my heart like a toy,” and the soppy light R&B of “Here He Comes” nicks a melody from Hall and Oates’ “Maneater”, which Timbaland referenced with Nelly Furtado two years ago. As many words as the Clipse have for snow, Baltimore club and its cousin Miami bass have for sex, so letting guest rapper Pitbull settle for such Kindergarten Cop-level laziness here as “spread legs like a gynecologist” is an insult. Not to his Miami base, not to Baltimore clubbers, but to pop fans. We’re fickle– not stupid.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/144528-tittsworth-12-steps
So those are two reviews…
I suggest everybody listen to it for themselves and make up their own minds…
DG
