This Is Not a Test

VINYL FORMAT. 'Listeners and club fans looking for hit material will certainly find plenty on display. While the single "Pass That Dutch" is little more than a warmed-up "Work It" rewrite (albeit one studded with auditory change-ups from alarm clocks to car alarms to audience noise to the whinnying of a horse), she compensates nicely with the blazing electro shock of "I'm Really Hot" and the down-and-dirty moaning of her Nelly duet, "Pump It Up." And Timbaland's productions are still above and beyond any others on earth, with a dizzying roster of next-generation beats - conceived in ring modulators, echo chambers, torpedo tubes, rusty pipes; anywhere except a standard drumkit - matched to dark, technoid effects capable of raising the eyebrows of even the most experimental laptop programmers.' - All Music Guide