The Family Sign | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 12, 2011 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 51:06 | |||
Label | Rhymesayers Entertainment | |||
Producer | Ant | |||
Atmosphere chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 73/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
BBC | favorable [3] |
Consequence of Sound | C+ [4] |
HipHopDX | 4.0/5 [5] |
Pitchfork Media | 5.8/10 [6] |
Slant Magazine | [7] |
The Family Sign is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group Atmosphere. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on April 12, 2011. The album debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200 selling 28,000 copies in its first week. [8]
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Family Sign received an average score of 73% based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]
Commenting on Slug's writing on The Family Sign for College Magazine , Taylor Jaymes wrote that he "is as much a rapper as he is a poet." [9]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "My Key" | 4:20 |
2. | "The Last to Say" | 4:16 |
3. | "Became" | 4:45 |
4. | "Just for Show" | 3:39 |
5. | "She's Enough" | 3:19 |
6. | "Bad Bad Daddy" | 3:33 |
7. | "Millennium Dodo" | 3:21 |
8. | "Who I'll Never Be" | 3:08 |
9. | "I Don't Need Brighter Days" | 4:05 |
10. | "Ain't Nobody" | 3:17 |
11. | "Your Name Here" | 3:37 |
12. | "If You Can Save Me Now" | 3:52 |
13. | "Something So" | 3:41 |
14. | "My Notes" | 2:18 |
15. | "Millennium Dodo 2" (iTunes deluxe edition bonus track) | 3:56 |
16. | "Cut You Down" (iTunes deluxe edition bonus track) | 4:14 |
Total length: | 59:21 |
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