Still Alive (album)

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Still Alive
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 17, 2007 (2007-07-17) [1]
Genre Instrumental hip hop
Length49:20
Label Anticon
Producer DJ Mayonnasie
DJ Mayonnaise chronology
55 Stories
(1999)
Still Alive
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! favorable [3]
Incendiary Magazinefavorable [4]
Pitchfork 4.3/10 [5]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Still Alive is the second studio album by American hip hop producer DJ Mayonnaise. It was released on Anticon in 2007.

Contents

Critical reception

Stewart Mason of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying, "DJ Mayonnaise does a fair job of keeping the potentially over-familiar arrangements and samples from coalescing into just another bit of negligible atmosphere for a boutique hotel bar near you, through unexpectedly tuneful melodies like 'Easily Distracted' and the album's one stylistic departure, the sneering Bush slam 'Strateegery.'" [2]

On May 14, 2007, the album was listed on XLR8R 's "Office Top Ten Album Picks". [7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Post Reformat"4:40
2."Easily Distracted"3:31
3."May Days"4:08
4."The Windham Song"3:39
5."15 Amp Circuit"1:11
6."Strateegery" (featuring K-the-I???)3:58
7."Dawson's Anthem 2005"4:14
8."Munjoy Moments"4:00
9."Quiet on the Set"4:55
10."The End of the Beginning"3:02
11."Untitled"12:02

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