Voir Dire (/ˈvwɑːr dɪər/; Latinate Old French for 'speak the truth') is a collaborative album by American rapper Earl Sweatshirt and record producer the Alchemist.
[1] On September 15, it was announced that Voir Dire would be released on streaming platforms on October 6, featuring a slightly altered tracklist which includes two songs with fellow collaborator Vince Staples.
[9] John Wohlmacher of Beats Per Minute wrote: "The dire gloom of the early years is gone, and the garbled mutations of Some Rap Songs and Feet of Clay have grown in clarity without losing any of their labyrinthine and gothic dynamics.
[11] Robin Murray of Clash stated: "together, this project might rank as a career high, a work of breathless yet intoxicatingly accessible complexity".
[12] Noah Barker of The Line of Best Fit wrote: "if anything, Voir Dire is a record that pulls itself apart as it continues, subtly dredging the listener in philosophical bile and pause-the-track one-liners".
[14] In the review for AllMusic, Fred Thomas concluded that, "Voir Dire pushes the bounds of both Alchemist's old school warmth and Earl's heady verses, landing someplace new that neither would have gotten to on their own.