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[nineteenfiftysix]

Open Mike Eagle - my co-worker Clark Kent's secret black box (Neighborhood Gods Unlimited, 2025)

[sleepingvillage]

Open Mike Eagle - I'll Fight You

Open Mike Eagle records are all slow burns with me. I feel I never really get into an album until the next one is announced.

[warrenbritt]

Open Mike Eagle @ Elsewhere, Brooklyn, New York.

7. 13. 22

[sleepingvillage]

Open Mike Eagle - Sweatpants Spiderman

I wasn’t really into this album when it came out. Something about it just seemed off for me. But that something kept pulling me back to give it another try. It took some time but "Anime, Trauma and Divorce” grew on me, hard, until it became one of my favorite albums of 2020.

Go Get it.

[theeverlastingshade]

Last week Open Mike Eagle released a new album called Anime, Trauma and Divorce, and it's the most intimate record of a career defined in part by unflinching intimacy. Highlight "Spiderman Sweatpants" is the record's centerpiece, and one of the most life-affirming and quietly devestating songs that Mike has released to date. The tone is laid-back and nonchalant, not unlike a great deal of his music, but the wistful, minor-key melody hints at a bittersweet new beginning on the horizon that's only accentuated as he rattles off minor life changes that have emerged in the wake of his divorce. "Tattoos, haircuts, gold chains, anime" Mike raps breezily throughout the hook, and it sounds like a triumphant deflection of one's life disintegrating before their eyes. He maintains his composure, but the heavy melancholy propelling the arrangements is impossible to ignore.

This raps are as thoughtful, eloquent, and humourous as they've ever been "What the fuck is they crisis/Anyway that I slice it/Gotta get an apartment/Scared to look at the prices/Weird bachelor couches/My belly hanging like Ralphus" but they're granted new weight within this specific context, and the urgency within the margins because more undeniable as it progresses. Despite the upheaval that Mike's life has gone through throughout the last few years he's still at the top of his game as a rapper, and the rest of the record continues to finds him navigating the tribulations of middle-age with grace and wisdom while brandishing tighter flows and a more eclectic approach to songcraft. Although ATaD is understated and more nuanced in nearly every facet of its being than the bulk of Mike's record, it's still another satisfying record that further accentuates just what a singular lane he occupies.

[thewordisbond]

Open Mike Eagle gets real on "Anime, Trauma, and Divorce" album...

Posted on https://www.thewordisbond.com/open-mike-eagle-gets-real-on-his-latest-release-anime-trauma-and-divorce-album/

Open Mike Eagle gets real on "Anime, Trauma, and Divorce" album...

Last year just so happened to be a bad year for most people. For Open Mike Eagle, it became a very bad one. In an interview with NYT, he gets candid about what it took for him to turn things around, by him going to his therapist, who happened to suggest to him to "write your