The Audience's Listening

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The Audience's Listening
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Studio album by
Cut Chemist
ReleasedJuly 11, 2006 (2006-07-11) [1]
Genre Hip hop
Length43:25
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Cut Chemist
Cut Chemist chronology
The Audience's Listening
(2006)		Die Cut
(2018)
Singles from The Audience's Listening
  1. "The Audience Is Listening Theme Song"
    Released: 2006
  2. "The Garden / Storm"
    Released: 2006
  3. "What's the Altitude"
    Released: 2006
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
RapReviews.com9/10 [6]
Stylus Magazine B [7]
The Village Voice favorable [8]

The Audience's Listening is the debut studio album by Cut Chemist, released on Warner Bros. Records on July 11, 2006. [9] It features guest appearances from Hymnal, Edan, Mr. Lif, and Thes One. [3]

Contents

Production

After leaving Jurassic 5 in 2004, Cut Chemist spent 18 months working exclusively on the album, which he had already been working on for 2 years. [10] He spent almost a year clearing samples. [9]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

David Jeffries of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5 and described it as "a well-crafted, highly enjoyable effort that overcomes the 'all samples cleared' challenge all big-label turntablist albums must face." [3] Jeff Vrabel of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying, "It's DJ music for the casual fan, something you don't need to be a knob-twiddler or connoisseur of the break beat to appreciate or enjoy." [5]

In 2015, Vice named it the 49th greatest dance album of all time. [11]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Motivational Speaker"1:48
2."(My 1st) Big Break"4:30
3."The Lift"1:25
4."The Garden"6:16
5."Spat"2:21
6."What's the Altitude" (featuring Hymnal)4:23
7."Metrorail Thru Space"3:56
8."Storm" (featuring Edan and Mr. Lif)3:28
9."2266 Cambridge" (featuring Thes One)2:34
10."Spoon"5:31
11."A Peak in Time"4:52
12."The Audience Is Listening Theme Song"2:20
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."Beats Thru Space"3:18

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [12] 20
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums ( Billboard ) [13] 7
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [14] 16

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  14. ↑ "Cut Chemist - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved March 11, 2018.
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