title: For Hero: For Fool
text: # For Hero: For Fool
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Metacritic | 85/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Pitchfork | 8.0/10 |
  | PopMatters | |
  | Stylus Magazine | B+ |
  
  For Hero: For Fool is the second studio album by American hip hop sextet Subtle. It was released on Lex Records in 2006. "The Mercury Craze" was released as a single from the album.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85% based on 14 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
  
  Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, describing it as "a complex, innovative, sometimes bizarre, and usually utterly confusing journey into the minds of lyricist Doseone and his five bandmates." Neal Hayes of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying, "the Oakland-based group presents a futuristic musical vision that is vivid, unsettling, and, above all, distinctive."
  
  OC Weekly included it on the "Album Covers of the Year" list.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Credits adapted from liner notes.
  
  Subtle
  
  * Dax Pierson – vocals, harmonica
  * Alexander Kort – electric cello, acoustic cello, electric bass, acoustic bass
  * Jordan Dalrymple – drums, guitar, synthesizer, vocals
  * Jeffrey "Jel" Logan – drum machine
  * Marty Kalani Dowers – woodwinds, synthesizer
  * Adam "Doseone" Drucker – words, vocals, treatment, artwork
  
  Technical personnel
  
  * Subtle – recording
  * Tony Espinoza – mixing
  