an association with Lily Allen into the semblance of a career, Professor Green punches above his weight on his second album", before describing Green's delivery as "too Estuary-Eminem, scattershot hip-hop asperity snarled out with a mockney menace that is too secondhand to be effective" and the Evening Standard said "At his best, as on the vitriolic 'Read All About It', he can still sound like the English Eminem. When the acoustic guitars come out, though, he's closer to Just Jack." The BBC were also unimpressed, with contributor Gary Mulholland saying that Green is basically just saying "Please let me on The X Factor… I promise I won’t swear!" and that you are left "frankly, bemused and, increasingly, very, very bored." The Evening Standard summed up the album by saying "The good news is that if fame really is so tough Manderson won't have to suffer for long: another album like this and nobody will be listening." Uncut gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, summing it up as "rather tiring." Perhaps the most damning review of all, though, was The Daily Telegraphs 1 out of 5, with writer James Lachno claiming that "his rhymes are too often lewd brags or boneheaded non sequiturs." Any Decent Music, the online review aggregator, rated the album overall 4.3 out of 10. Padania argued that UK music critics aren't familiar with the construction and structure of hip hop albums, and said that when approaching these types of records, "you have to know precisely what to analyse, and what the MC is trying to achieve." Track listing Personnel Adapted from the album's liner notes. Musicians Jared "Blake" Scharff – guitar, synths (track 2) Chris Shooroi – guitar (track 3) Ben Kohn – guitar (track 3), bass (track 4) Tim Thornton – guitar (track 5) Guy Whittaker – bass (track 5) James Murray – guitar (track 8) Edward Hayes – bridge guitar (track 2), guitars (tracks 11, 12, 14, 15) Pete Kelleher – bass, keyboards (track 4) Luke Juby – piano, strings (track 8) Carl Hudson – piano (track 9) Neil Cowley – piano (track 9) Danny Keyz – keyboards (track 13) Heritage Orchestra – strings (tracks 3, 11, 12, 14) Jules Buckley – strings arrangement (tracks 3, 11, 12, 14) Tim Hutton – brass (track 15) DJ IQ – cuts (tracks 13, 15) Production Ken Duro Ifill – mixing (tracks 1–15) Steve Fitzmaurice –