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| Released | June 9, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 50:41 | |||
| Label | Anti- | |||
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Jhelli Beam is the sixth studio album by American rapper Busdriver. It was released on Anti- in 2009. [1]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100 [2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Robert Christgau |  [4] |
| HipHopDX | 3.0/5 [5] |
| NME |  [6] |
| The Phoenix | [7] |
| Pitchfork | 6.2/10 [8] |
| PopMatters |   [9] |
| Spin | [10] |
| URB | [11] |
| XLR8R | 7/10 [12] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]
Alan Ranta of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying: "It is too intelligent and challenging to the status quo for the mainstream media to truly embrace, and Anti- seems to be lacking a little on the side of their hip-hop promotion department." [9] Mosi Reeves of Spin gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, writing: "Extraordinarily irrational and willfully convoluted, Jhelli Beam is avant-rap as quantum physics." [10]
The opening track, "Split Seconds (Between Nannies and Swamis)", was described by Thomas Quinlan of URB as "Busdriver's simplest, most accessible rap jam, eschewing the bursts of rapid rap flows that usually accompany his slower style, and only occasionally bringing in a bit of sing-song." [11] He gave the album 4 stars out of 5, stating: "While there's some experimentation with new ideas here, Jhelli Beam is familiar enough to leave Busdriver fans more than satisfied." [11]
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Split Seconds (Between Nannies and Swamis)" | Nosaj Thing | 4:16 |
| 2. | "Me-Time (With the Pulmonary Palimpsest)" | Omid | 2:36 |
| 3. | "Handfuls of Sky" | 5:08 | |
| 4. | "Scoliosis Jones" | Daedelus | 2:36 |
| 5. | "Least Favorite Rapper" (featuring Nocando) | Free the Robots | 3:23 |
| 6. | "Quebec and Back" | Nobody | 4:07 |
| 7. | "Do the Wop" | Daedelus | 3:02 |
| 8. | "World Agape" | Greg Saunier | 2:16 |
| 9. | "Manchuria" (featuring Myka 9) | Nobody | 3:48 |
| 10. | "Unsafe Sextet/Gilded Hearts of Booklovers" | Omid | 5:11 |
| 11. | "Happy Insider" (featuring Nick Thorburn) |
| 3:29 |
| 12. | "I've Always Known" | Busdriver | 2:37 |
| 13. | "Fishy Face" (featuring John Dieterich) | Daedelus | 5:09 |
| 14. | "Sorry Fuckers" (bonus track) | Busdriver | 3:03 |
| Total length: | 50:41 | ||
Credits adapted from liner notes.
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