Time and Materials (album)

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Time and Materials
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Studio album by
Cavanaugh (Serengeti & Open Mike Eagle)
ReleasedNovember 19, 2015 (2015-11-19)
Genre Hip hop
Length25:57
Label Mello Music Group
Producer Open Mike Eagle
Cavanaugh (Serengeti & Open Mike Eagle) chronology
Time and Materials
(2015)		Quarantine Recordings
(2020)

Time and Materials is the first collaborative studio album by Serengeti & Open Mike Eagle, released under the group moniker Cavanaugh. It was released on Mello Music Group on November 19, 2015. [1] Entirely produced by Open Mike Eagle, [2] it features guest appearances from P.O.S, Hemlock Ernst, and Busdriver. [3] It is a concept album about "a couple of maintenance veterans named Dave and Mike who work in Cavanaugh, a fictional mixed-income housing unit in the also-fictional town of Detroit, Florida." [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
HipHopDX 3.5/5 [5]
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [6]
RapReviews.com8/10 [7]
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Nate Patrin of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.2 out of 10, writing, "for his first full-length production job, Mike sets a tone as raw-nerved and abrasively contemplative as the concept demands." [6] Brett Uddenberg of San Diego Reader wrote, "this is a dense and diverse record that plays to the songwriting strengths of Mike and Serengeti and hints at greater things to come as their partnership evolves." [9]

Spin placed it at number 44 on the "50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015" list. [10]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Zorak"2:43
2."Screen Play"3:03
3."Overland"3:47
4."Typecast" (featuring P.O.S, Hemlock Ernst, and Busdriver)4:20
5."Pinky"3:44
6."Church"2:06
7."Tar"1:54
8."Wonder Girl"1:33
9."Lemons" (featuring Hemlock Ernst)2:47
Total length:25:57

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [11]

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  2. ↑ Wilbur, Brock (November 25, 2015). "Alt-Rap Gets a Concept Album From Cavanaugh That Changes Everything". Inverse . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Stream Cavanaugh's (Open Mike Eagle & Serengeti) Time & Materials LP". Impose . November 19, 2015. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Galil, Leor (2016). "Lizzo, Cavanaugh". Chicago Reader . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  5. ↑ Gillespie, Blake (December 8, 2015). "Cavanaugh - Time & Materials". HipHopDX . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  6. 1 2 Patrin, Nate (November 19, 2015). "Cavanaugh: Time & Materials". Pitchfork . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  7. ↑ Juon, Steve (November 17, 2015). "Cavanaugh :: Time and Materials :: Mello Music Group". RapReviews.com. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  8. ↑ Christgau, Robert (May 6, 2016). "Alt-Rap Exemplars: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau". Vice . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  9. ↑ Uddenberg, Brett (January 8, 2016). "Open Mike Eagle and Serengeti join forces as Cavanaugh". San Diego Reader . Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  10. ↑ "The 50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015 (page 1 of 2)". Spin . December 16, 2015. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
  11. ↑ Time and Materials (CD liner notes). Cavanaugh. Mello Music Group. 2015.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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