More Than Ever (Sims album)

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More Than Ever
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Studio album by
Sims
ReleasedNovember 4, 2016 (2016-11-04)
Genre Hip hop, alternative hip hop
Length45:31
Label Doomtree Records
Producer Icetep, Paper Tiger, Lazerbeak
Sims chronology
Bad Time Zoo
(2011)		More Than Ever
(2016)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
RapReviews8/10 [1]
Scene Point Blank7.3/10 [2]

More Than Ever is the third studio album by American hip hop artist Sims, a member of Minneapolis hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released on Doomtree Records on November 4, 2016. [3]

Contents

The album was produced by Icetep of Minneapolis hip hop group Killstreak and Doomtree producers Paper Tiger and Lazerbeak. [4]

Critical reception

RapReviews' Steve Juon called the album "witty and satirical" and said that "while Sims is clearly inclined to march to the beat of his own drum, he’s not in completely inaccessible arthouse territory." [1] Scene Point Blank called More Than Ever "a record that pushes expectation beyond the hard-hitting beats and spitfire lyricism with echo-y and dreamlike tracks interjected through the more traditional beat-heavy songs." [2]

Track listing

No.TitleProducerLength
1."A Bad Flying Bird" Paper Tiger 3:41
2."Icarus"Paper Tiger2:36
3."Brutal Dance"Icetep3:31
4."OneHundred" Lazerbeak 3:55
5."Flash Paper"Paper Tiger3:43
6."Spinning Away"Icetep3:25
7."Oakland Ave Catalpas"Icetep, Lazerbeak4:13
8."What They Don't Know"Icetep2:37
9."Badlands"Lazerbeak2:21
10."Buckets"Lazerbeak3:18
11."Shaking in My Sheets"Icetep, Lazerbeak2:37
12."Voltaire"Icetep5:25
13."Gosper Island"Paper Tiger4:09

Personnel

Adapted from the album's Bandcamp page. [5]

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [6] 18
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [7] 48
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [8] 34
US Rap Albums ( Billboard ) [9] 21

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References

  1. 1 2 Juon, Steve (2016-10-11). "Sims: More Than Ever". RapReviews. Retrieved 2023-05-29.
  2. 1 2 "Album review: Sims – More Than Ever". Scene Point Blank. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  3. ↑ "Sims keeps it "OneHundred" with lead track off new album More Than Ever — listen". Consequence of Sound. 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  4. ↑ "Sims readies new LP, releases "Brutal Dance" video, touring with Air Credits (aka The Hood Internet & ShowYouSuck)". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  5. ↑ "More Than Ever, by Sims". Sims. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  6. ↑ "Sims - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Sims - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard . Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Sims - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard . Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Sims - Chart history - Rap Albums". Billboard . Retrieved January 27, 2017.
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