Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
by Open Mike Eagle
- Type: Album
- Released: July聽11,聽2025
- Label: Auto Reverse
- Country: United States
- Length: 37:59
- Community rating: 3.59/5 from 10 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Conceived as a broadcast from a fictional, low-budget cable network, 'Neighborhood Gods Unlimited' explores themes of personal trauma and fragmented identity through a series of vivid vignettes. [1, 6] The album's production, featuring contributions from Kenny Segal and Child Actor among others, provides a cohesive yet varied sonic backdrop that navigates between woozy, surreal soundscapes and lighter, crystalline arrangements. [1, 2] Open Mike Eagle's songwriting blends his signature humor with diaristic confessionals, creating a narrative that finds commitment in the act of searching for meaning among the shards of memory and experience. [1, 6]
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, conscious, rap, underground, experimental, witty, storytelling
Tracklist
- woke up knowing everything (opening theme) (03:09)
- me and aquil stealing stuff from work (02:36)
- contraband (the plug has bags of me) (02:33)
- almost broke my nucleus accumbens (02:13)
- ok but I'm the phone screen (02:42)
- michigan j. wonder (02:29)
- mirror pieces in a leather bound briefcase (02:49)
- relentless hands and feet (03:02)
- my co-worker clark kent's secret black box (02:47)
- rejoinder (burning the last puzzle piece) (03:18)
- a dream of the midnight baby (not a euphemism) (02:19)
- wide leg michael jordan generation x jeans (02:24)
- sorry I got huge (also not a euphemism) (02:02)
- unlimited skull voices (03:36)
Credits
- Open Mike Eagle - vocals, executive production
- Mike Parvizi - live bass on "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)"
- Willie Green - mixing, mastering
- Mose Wheeler - engineering assistance
- Marcus Wallinder - art
- Brad Tuominen - layout