I like this album, its good to put on in the background while reading. But I have to admit that Shadow is a better DJ than he is a producer. My advice would be to not bother buying this CD but to buy the Mashin' On The Motorway single which has the best tracks from the album on it. Standouts are Six Days and Right Thing / GDMFSOB.

This album is about the best thing I've purchased since 2003. Shadow chose to keep moving; keep developing way beyond his hip hop routes. Here you’ll find a collection of songs, each with its own personality and different appeal. If there is a concept at work throughout the whole, it must be that of individualism and constant change. The tracks react against each other, straining in different directions and suggesting a variety of musical possibilities. Rather than being united by a categorised style, they are each marked by their maker’s cerebral yet sensual appreciation of sound and rhythm. Here is no perfect package, as was Endtroducing, but a bunched fist of musical blueprints. It’s the work of a man who’s sat back and asked himself what he really wants to listen to when the lights are out, and it's probably his best work to date.

This album is far too electro inflected to appeal to fans of his previous work. Change and exploration are always a good thing, but it does not work out well for the purpose of this album. Perhaps the problem lies in track order; obvious highlight "Six Days" appears far too early in the album for it to be as climactic as what it needs to be. The other tracks on this album are all decidedly average, none coming even close to the incredible (if at times, a little warped) beauty of the tracks featured on "Endtroducing". If "Endtroducing" never surfaced, this album - and Shadow - would be long forgotten.

It's obvious Shadow wasnt going to do his so called regular triphop style with this album. Instead, this album is a full out hip hop album, featuring some of his best tracks, 'Mashin On The Motorway', and 'Walkie Talkie' for example. Both tracks are brilliant when scratched, cut up, or given a face lift. A much more energetic album then Endtroducing.

Personally, much of the album doesn't conform to my usual tastes in music. However, the haunting abstract style incorporated within tracks five and seven more than makes up for what I would call a relatively poor album.
I think also, that track twelve has a lot to say for itself - with drifting laidback piano keys and soft meaningful vocals. There are three tracks on this album that makes it all worth the money you paid.

What? Not a good producer? Have you not listened to this whole album? Have you never heard ANYTHING off of Endtroducing?! EVERY track is bomb on the private press. "6 days" is my particular favorite, with "Mashing On the Motorway" a little bit behind. If you enjoy ambient beats, trip-hop, or anything of the sorts, I highly, highly recomend this.

The Private Press is one of DJ Shadow's best moments, the tracks are moody but fresh. Tracks like You can't go home again and fixed income are gems. Well worth listening to, as like all Shadow's back catalogue.

a bit of a disappointment this one. a couple of good tracks but on the whole not upto his very usual very high standards. however if your a fan its worth buying, but dont expect endtroducing part 2