Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
by Open Mike Eagle
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 September 2017
- Label: Mello Music Group
- Country: United States
- Length: 39:11
- Community rating: 3.46/5 from 9 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Brick Body Kids Still Daydream' is a critically acclaimed concept album that functions as a eulogy for the demolished Robert Taylor Homes public housing project in Chicago, exploring themes of memory, community, and displacement through a superhero narrative. Open Mike Eagle's performance is characterized by his relaxed, melodic delivery and lyrically dense, intricate rhymes that blend poignant social commentary with personal nostalgia. The album's production is a varied collage of abstract hip-hop, featuring a synthesis of jazzy, lo-fi, and experimental sounds with elements of chiptune and industrial textures that underscore the album's thematic journey.
Genres
Descriptors: underground, rap, experimental, conscious, storytelling
Tracklist
- Legendary Iron Hood (03:47)
- (How Could Anybody) Feel at Home (04:14)
- Hymnal (03:20)
- No Selling (Uncle Butch Pretending It Dont Hurt) (03:02)
- Happy Wasteland Day (03:42)
- Daydreaming in the Projects (03:12)
- Brick Body Complex (04:07)
- Tldr (Smithing) (02:47)
- Breezeway Ritual (02:24)
- Wedding Ghosts (02:18)
- 95 Radios (04:03)
- My Auntie's Building (02:15)
Credits
- Open Mike Eagle - vocals, executive production
- Dan Miller - guitar
- Jordan Katz - additional production, additional live instruments
- Sammus - vocals
- Has-Lo - vocals, production
- Exile - production
- DJ Nobody - production
- Andrew Broder - production
- Kenny Segal - production
- Illingsworth - production
- Caleb Stone - production
- Lo-Phi - production
- Elos - production
- Toylight - production
- Daddy Kev - mixing, mastering
- McKay Felt - artwork
- Sarah Dalton - graphic design
- Michael Tolle - executive production
- Mark Bowen - executive production