Neighborhood Gods Unlimited

by Open Mike Eagle

Neighborhood Gods Unlimited cover art
  • 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

  1. woke up knowing everything (opening theme) (03:09)
  2. me and aquil stealing stuff from work (02:36)
  3. contraband (the plug has bags of me) (02:33)
  4. almost broke my nucleus accumbens (02:13)
  5. ok but I'm the phone screen (02:42)
  6. michigan j. wonder (02:29)
  7. mirror pieces in a leather bound briefcase (02:49)
  8. relentless hands and feet (03:02)
  9. my co-worker clark kent's secret black box (02:47)
  10. rejoinder (burning the last puzzle piece) (03:18)
  11. a dream of the midnight baby (not a euphemism) (02:19)
  12. wide leg michael jordan generation x jeans (02:24)
  13. sorry I got huge (also not a euphemism) (02:02)
  14. 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

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