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Beastie Boys - To the 5 Boroughs [Clean]

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Beastie Boys
Album Title
To the 5 Boroughs [Clean]
Release Date
June 15, 2004 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Six years is a long time, about one-and-a-half generations in pop music and a fairly large chunk out of anyone's life, two sentiments that come into play on The Beastie Boys' sixth album, 2004's To The 5 Boroughs. When The Beasties last delivered an album, it was in the summer of 1998 as the Clinton impeachment scandal was heating up, and just as that sordid saga closed the curtain on the swinging '90s, Hello Nasty served as both a culmination of the New York trio's remarkable comeback and as a capper to the alt-rock boom of the '90s, the last album of the decade to capture what the '90s actually felt like. Read More