Echo Chamber (MC Paul Barman album)

Echo Chamber
Studio album by MC Paul Barman
Released	May 18, 2018 (2018-05-18)
Genre	Hip-hop
Length	48:13
Label	Mello Music Group
Producer	James Poyser Kenny Segal Mark Ronson Memory Man MF Doom Prince Paul Questlove
MC Paul Barman chronology
Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud (2009) Echo Chamber (2018) Tectonic Texts (2025)

Echo Chamber (stylized as (((echo chamber)))) is the third solo studio album by American rapper MC Paul Barman. It was released on May 18, 2018 via Mello Music Group. Production was handled by Questlove, Memory Man, MF Doom, James Poyser, Kenny Segal, Mark Ronson and Prince Paul. It features guest appearances from Open Mike Eagle and Masta Ace.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.7/10 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Exclaim!	8/10 [3]
Pitchfork	6/10 [4]
Rolling Stone	[5]
The Irish Times	[6]
Tom Hull	B+( ) [7]

(((echo chamber))) was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At AnyDecentMusic?, which assigns a normalized rating out of 10 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 6.7, based on six reviews. ^[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Paul Nathaniel Barman, except tracks 1 and 4 written with Michael W. Eagle II, and track 16 written with Duval Clear.

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Echo Chamber" (featuring Open Mike Eagle)	?uestlove	2:28
2.	"Youngman Speaks on Race"	Prince Paul	3:26
3.	"99.99999%"	MF Doom	4:16
4.	"Believe That" (featuring Open Mike Eagle)	MF Doom	3:12
5.	"Being Poor"	?uestlove James Poyser	1:40
6.	"Art of War"	?uestlove	2:03
7.	"Tourette's"	Memory Man	1:41
8.	"Commandments"	Memory Man	2:48
9.	"Happy Holidays"	Mark Ronson	1:28
10.	"Oh Snap"	?uestlove	1:29
11.	"Meat n Bone"	?uestlove	6:21
12.	"Leapfrog"	Memory Man	2:43
13.	"Hairy Moth Owl 2"	Memory Man	2:55
14.	"Undoing Aloneness"	Kenny Segal	2:52
15.	"Age War"	?uestlove	3:54
16.	"Antennas" (featuring Masta Ace)	Memory Man	4:57
Total length:			48:13

Personnel

• MC Paul Barman – vocals
• Michael "Open Mike Eagle" Eagle – vocals & recording (tracks: 1, 4)
• Duval "Masta Ace" Clear – vocals & recording (track 16)
• Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson – producer (tracks: 1, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15)
• "Prince Paul" Huston – producer (track 2)
• Daniel "MF Doom" Dumile – producer (tracks: 3, 4)
• James Poyser – producer (track 5)
• Eli "Memory Man" Elkin – producer (tracks: 7, 8, 12, 13, 16), mixing
• Mark Ronson – producer (track 9), recording (track 8)
• Kenny "Syndakit" Segal – producer (track 14)
• Joseph "Steel Tipped Dove" Fusaro – recording (tracks: 1, 3–5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16)
• Joshua Sadlier-Brown – recording (tracks: 2, 11, 14–16)
• Casual-T – recording (track 7)
• Chris Pummill – recording (track 11)
• Mark Donahue – mastering

References

1. "(((echo chamber))) by MC Paul Barman reviews | Any Decent Music". www.anydecentmusic.com. Retrieved July 24, 2025.
2. Simpson, Paul. "(((echo chamber))) - MC Paul Barman | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved July 24, 2025.
3. Mullin, Kyle (May 17, 2018). "MC Paul Barman │ (((Echo Chamber)))". Exclaim! . Retrieved July 24, 2025.
4. Rytlewski, Evan (May 25, 2018). "MC Paul Barman: (((echo chamber)))". Pitchfork . Retrieved July 24, 2025.
5. Vozick-Levinson, Simon (May 22, 2018). "Review: MC Paul Barman's '(((Echo Chamber)))' Is Lovably Eccentric". Rolling Stone . Retrieved July 24, 2025.
6. Van Nguyen, Dean (May 18, 2018). "'Echo Chamber' by MC Paul Barman review: A wild ride". The Irish Times . Retrieved July 24, 2025.
7. Hull, Tom (May 21, 2018). "Tom Hull: Grade List: MC Paul Barman". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved July 24, 2025.

External links

• (((Echo Chamber))) at Discogs (list of releases)