Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
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| Released | July 11, 2025 | |||
| Studio | Office/Space[1] | |||
| Length | 39:00 | |||
| Label | Auto Reverse | |||
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Neighborhood Gods Unlimited is the tenth studio album by American rapper and comedian Open Mike Eagle. It was released on July 11, 2025, via Auto Reverse Records in LP, CD and digital formats.[2]
Background
The album was preceded by Open Mike's 2023 release, Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering.[2]
The lead single, "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)", was released on June 3, 2025.[2] It was followed by the second single "My Co-Worker Clark Kent's Secret Black Box" on August 6, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Stoney Sharp.[3]
Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100[8] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [4] |
| Beats Per Minute | 82%[5] |
| Paste | 8.3/10[6] |
| Pitchfork | 8.5/10[7] |
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Neighborhood Gods Unlimited received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 from 6 critic scores.[8]
John Amen of Beats Per Minute described the album as "a potent, enticing, and, yes, elusive project," giving it a rating of 82%.[5] It received a rating of 8.5 from Pitchfork, whose reviewer Paul Thompson noted it as "conceived as a dispatch from a fictional cable channel with a budget so small that it can only broadcast for one hour a week."[7] Casey Epstein-Gross of Paste assigned the album a score of 8.3 out of ten and described the production of the album as "the glue holding its conceptual particles together," stating "This is where Neighborhood Gods Unlimited leaves us: not with a fantasy of wholeness, but with a quiet commitment to keep searching among the shards anyway."[6]
Accolades
| Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beats Per Minute | Top 50 Albums of 2025 | 13 | [9] |
| Consequence | The 25 Best Rap Albums of 2025 | 13 | [10] |
| HotNewHipHop | The 40 Best Rap Albums of 2025 | 18 | [11] |
| Paste | The 25 best rap albums of 2025 | 2 | [12] |
| The Ringer | The 25 Best Albums of 2025 | 14 | [13] |
| Rolling Stone | The 100 Best Albums of 2025 | 84 | [14] |
| The 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2025 | 25 | [15] |
Track listing
All tracks are written by Michael Eagle, with guest artists as additional writers.
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Woke Up Knowing Everything (Opening Theme)" | K-Nite | 3:09 |
| 2. | "Me and Aquil Stealing Stuff from Work" (featuring AQ) | Child Actor | 2:36 |
| 3. | "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)" | Kenny Segal | 2:33 |
| 4. | "Almost Broke My Nucleus Accumbens" (featuring Still Rift) |
| 2:13 |
| 5. | "Ok but I'm the Phone Screen" |
| 2:42 |
| 6. | "Michigan J. Wonder" | Lalive | 2:29 |
| 7. | "Mirror Pieces in a Leather Bound Briefcase" (featuring Video Dave) |
| 2:49 |
| 8. | "Relentless Hands and Feet" | Child Actor | 3:02 |
| 9. | "My Co-Worker Clark Kent's Secret Black Box" | K-Nite | 2:47 |
| 10. | "Rejoinder (Burning the Last Puzzle Piece)" |
| 3:18 |
| 11. | "A Dream of the Midnight Baby (Not a Euphemism)" | Child Actor | 2:19 |
| 12. | "Wide Leg Michael Jordan Generation X Jeans" | Child Actor | 2:24 |
| 13. | "Sorry I Got Huge (Also Not a Euphemism)" | Child Actor | 2:02 |
| 14. | "Unlimited Skull Voices" | Segal | 3:36 |
| Total length: | 39:00 | ||
Note
Personnel
Credits adapted from Bandcamp.[1]
- Willie Green – mixing, mastering
- Mose Wheeler – engineering assistance
- Open Mike Eagle – executive production
- Mike Parvizi – live bass on "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)"
- Marcus Wallinder – art
- Brad Tuominen – layout
References
- ^ a b "Neighborhood Gods Unlimited by Open Mike Eagle". Bandcamp. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ a b c Breihan, Tom (June 3, 2025). "Open Mike Eagle Announces New Album Neighborhood Gods Unlimited". Stereogum. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ Gardner, Khalliah (August 6, 2025). "Open Mike Eagle Shares "My Co-Worker Clark Kent's Secret Black Box" Music Video And Announces Fall 2025 Tour Dates". Mxdwn. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ Neighborhood Gods Unlimited - Open Mike Eagle ... | AllMusic, retrieved December 18, 2025
- ^ a b Amen, John (July 21, 2025). "Album Review: Open Mike Eagle – Neighborhood Gods Unlimited". Beats Per Minute. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ a b Epstein-Gross, Casey (July 17, 2025). "Open Mike Eagle Picks Up the Pieces on Neighborhood Gods Unlimited". Paste. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ a b Thompson, Paul (July 15, 2025). "Open Mike Eagle: Neighborhood Gods Unlimited". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 9, 2025.
- ^ a b Neighborhood Gods Unlimited by Open Mike Eagle, retrieved December 17, 2025
- ^ Hakimian, Rob; Wohlmacher, John; Johnston, Andy; Forstneger, Steve; Amen, John; Kohner, Kyle; Pickard, Joshua; Dedman, Todd; Finlayson, Ray (December 16, 2025). "BPM's Top 50 Albums of 2025". Beats Per Minute. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
- ^ "The 25 Best Rap Albums of 2025 | Consequence". December 16, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
- ^ "The 40 Best Rap Albums Of 2025". HotNewHipHop. March 9, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2025.
- ^ "The 25 best rap albums of 2025". Paste Magazine. Retrieved December 17, 2025.
- ^ "The 25 Best Albums of 2025". The Ringer. December 11, 2025. Retrieved December 17, 2025.
- ^ "The 100 Best Albums of 2025". Rolling Stone. December 3, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
- ^ "AllMusic Best of 2025 | AllMusic 2025 in Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 17, 2025.