7.6
Avg Score
5
Opinions
#8,673
All Time
12
Tracks
“On his bleakly comic new album, Open Mike Eagle surveys the damage of one terrible year, using anime mythology as a lens for examining real-life pain.”
“Open Mike Eagle processes pain through pop culture and humour”
“A decade ago, Open Mike Eagle and Hannibal Buress were asking ‘WTF is Art Rap’, on Eagle’s characteristically candid and inventive debut. “Whoever wins this art rap battle gets a lifetime supply of hummus!” they joked. Now, his new album Anime, Trauma and Divorce asks, ‘WTF is Self-Care?’. “It’s like seeing what my body needs / Maybe that’s a lot of weed?” he raps, his cadence somewhere between st”
“While it's certainly understandable that Open Mike Eagle is still processing the events that inspire his latest album, it's hard not to feel the narratives lack the depth of his past work.”
