Hiding Places

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Hiding Places
Hiding Places.jpg
Studio album by
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
ReleasedMarch 29, 2019 (2019-03-29)
Genre Hip hop
Length40:23
Label Backwoodz Studioz
Producer
Billy Woods chronology
Known Unknowns
(2017)		Hiding Places
(2019)		Terror Management
(2019)
Kenny Segal chronology
Happy Little Trees
(2018)		Hiding Places
(2019)		Back at the House
(2019)

Hiding Places is a collaborative studio album by Brooklyn rapper Billy Woods and Los Angeles record producer Kenny Segal. [1] It was released by Backwoodz Studioz on March 29, 2019. [2] It features guest appearances from Mothermary, Elucid, and Self Jupiter. [3] The album cover is a photograph of the William Livingstone House in Detroit. [4]

Contents

Background

Kenny Segal produced Milo's 2015 album So the Flies Don't Come , which featured a guest appearance from Elucid. Elucid is one half of the duo Armand Hammer along with Billy Woods. Segal went on to provide beats to Armand Hammer's albums Rome and Paraffin . After that, Woods and Segal decided to create a collaborative album. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Fader favorable [6]
Pitchfork 7.7/10 [7]
Stereogum favorable [8]

Marcus J. Moore of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.7 out of 10, writing: "In a way, Hiding Places plays like a complement to early-00s underground New York rap, and sits alongside early Definitive Jux records." [7] He added: "There's an edginess to the record, similar to Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein , a feeling that the rapper will either self-destruct or nuke everything in his wake." [7] Tom Breihan of Stereogum wrote: "The album works as a sweaty, jangled rumination on stress and fear and hopelessness and grim acceptance." [8] Paul Thompson of The Fader called it "[Billy Woods'] leanest and his best [record]". [6]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
NPR 25 Best Albums of 2019
9
[9]
Stereogum 50 Best Albums of 2019
9
Time 10 Best Albums of 2019
5
Vice 100 Best Albums of 2019
8
The Wire Top 50 Releases 2019
44

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Spongebob"3:52
2."Steak Knives"1:28
3."Checkpoints"3:13
4."Spider Hole"3:40
5."Houthi"2:44
6."A Day in a Week in a Year" (featuring Mothermary)5:04
7."Bedtime"2:15
8."Crawlspace" (featuring Elucid)3:45
9."Speak Gently" (featuring Self Jupiter)4:53
10."Toothy"2:17
11."Bigfakelaugh"3:48
12."Red Dust"3:24
Total length:40:23

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

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