Open Mike EagleBest Open Mike Eagle Albums Ranked

Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

loudandquiet

9.0

“Open Mike Eagle isn’t normally a combative rapper. His cakewalk delivery is usually soft, thoughtful, and often goofy. It’s surprising then to hear him so passionate on his latest LP: “don’t call me n***** or rapper / my motherfuckin’ name is Michael Eagle” he rasps on ‘Brick Body Complex’. Drawing the fury of Nas’ ‘Illmatic’ into the fantastical universe of DC comics, ‘Brick Body Kids Still Daydr”

Neighborhood Gods Unlimited

pitchfork

8.5

“On his sly, artful new album, the Los Angeles-based rapper confronts an inhumane information society with determination to claw back a sense of self.”

Neighborhood Gods Unlimited

pastemagazine

8.3

“The West Coast rapper’s latest is a record about being split into pieces: selfhood as a broken phone screen, a reflection refracted in dozens of directions, a pile of black glass scattered across a city street, a horde of half-finished demos now lost to the void.”

Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

pitchfork

8.1

“Armed with a caustic wit and a poetic eye, Open Mike Eagle builds a small, quiet monument to a housing project in Chicago across a diverse and singular piece of contemporary hip-hop.”

Anime, Trauma and Divorce

pitchfork

8.0

“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.”

Anime, Trauma and Divorce

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“Open Mike Eagle processes pain through pop culture and humour”