Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

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Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
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Studio album by
Open Mike Eagle
ReleasedSeptember 15, 2017 (2017-09-15)
Genre Hip hop
Length39:17
Label Mello Music Group
Producer Exile, DJ Nobody, Andrew Broder, Kenny Segal, Illingsworth, Caleb Stone, Lo-Phi, Elos, Has-Lo, Toylight
Open Mike Eagle chronology
Hella Personal Film Festival
(2016)		Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
(2017)		 Anime, Trauma and Divorce
(2020)

Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is the fourth studio album by Open Mike Eagle. It was released via Mello Music Group on September 15, 2017. [1] It includes guest appearances from Sammus and Has-Lo. [2] It is a concept album about the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing project in Chicago, Illinois. [3] The cover art was illustrated by McKay Felt. [4] Music videos were created for "95 Radios", [5] "Brick Body Complex", [6] "No Selling (Uncle Butch Pretending It Don't Hurt)", [7] "Happy Wasteland Day", [8] and "Hymnal". [9] The album received widespread acclaim from critics and landed on several year-end lists.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [10]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Chicago Reader favorable [12]
Robert Christgau A− [13]
Consequence of Sound B [14]
Los Angeles Times favorable [15]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 [16]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [17]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]
Spin favorable [19]
Uproxx favorable [20]

The album received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 12 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [10]

Matthew Ismael Ruiz of Pitchfork gave the album an 8.1 out of 10, saying, "Brick Body Kids Still Daydream serves as an antidote to dystopian depictions of the neighborhoods and communities on Chicago's South Side that are often one-dimensional, serving as a glimpse into the mind of a poet who can see the beauty and articulate it through the eyes of a child." [16]

Andrew Gordon of The Skinny gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "[Open Mike Eagle's] most thematically coherent work yet." [18] Aaron Williams of Uproxx said, "Fans of cascading rhymes and rewind-button-crushing wordplay will appreciate that Mike's gift of gab remains refreshingly (or stubbornly) intact in an era of stripped-down cadences and simplistic content." [20]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
NPR 50 Best Albums of 2017
29
Pitchfork 50 Best Albums of 2017
49
Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2017
34
Stereogum 40 Best Rap Albums of 2017
16

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Legendary Iron Hood" Exile 3:47
2."(How Could Anybody) Feel at Home" DJ Nobody 4:14
3."Hymnal" (featuring Sammus) Andrew Broder 3:20
4."No Selling (Uncle Butch Pretending It Don't Hurt)" Kenny Segal 3:02
5."Happy Wasteland Day"Exile3:42
6."Daydreaming in the Projects"Illingsworth3:12
7."Brick Body Complex"Caleb Stone4:07
8."TLDR (Smithing)"Illingsworth2:47
9."Breezeway Ritual"Lo-Phi2:24
10."Wedding Ghosts"Elos2:18
11."95 Radios" (featuring Has-Lo)Has-Lo4:03
12."My Auntie's Building"Toylight2:15

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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