Soft Money is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Jel. It was released on Anticon on February 20, 2006.[1] "WMD / All Around" was released as a single from the album.[2]
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 20, 2006[1] | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 40:16 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
| Producer | Jel | |||
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| Singles from Soft Money | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 67/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| BBC |  [5] |
| Cokemachineglow | 59/100[6] |
| East Bay Express | favorable[7] |
| Exclaim! | mixed[8] |
| Pitchfork | 6.0/10[9] |
| Prefix | 7.0/10[10] |
| SF Weekly | favorable[11] |
| The Skinny | [12] |
| Stylus Magazine | C+[13] |
Critical reception
editAt Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Soft Money received an average score of 67% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]
Brian Howe of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.0 out of 10, describing it as "a murky palimpsest of disembodied samples and dirty beats, incantatory rhymes and live instrumentation, leftist rhetoric and absurdist non sequiturs, breathy female vocals and ephemeral melodies".[9] Martin Longley of BBC said: "There are few dynamic surprises here, and no serrated edges, but this disc's strength lies in its building mass of lumbering, decelerated funk, its textures gluey and thick."[5] Luciana Lopez of XLR8R said: "The album slices and dices genres throughout, and the music sounds all the better for it."[14] Bram Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "one of the most rewarding Anticon releases so far."[12]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "To Buy a Car" | 2:55 |
| 2. | "All Day Breakfast" | 4:18 |
| 3. | "No Solution" | 3:37 |
| 4. | "All Around" | 3:21 |
| 5. | "Thrashin" | 4:03 |
| 6. | "Sweet Cream in It" | 2:16 |
| 7. | "Soft Money, Dry Bones" | 3:39 |
| 8. | "Know You Don't" | 3:34 |
| 9. | "WMD" | 4:36 |
| 10. | "Mislead" | 1:56 |
| 11. | "Nice Last" | 4:25 |
| 12. | "Chipmunk Technique" | 1:36 |
Personnel
editCredits adapted from liner notes.
- Jel – writing, production, performance, recording, arrangement
- Odd Nosdam – additional recording, mixing, editing, song arrangement, sounds, filter play, drone (8)
- Yoni Wolf – piano (2), synthesizer (2)
- Josiah Wolf – bass guitar (2)
- Andrew Broder – guitar (3)
- Dosh – Rhodes piano (3), sampler (3)
- Alexander Kort – cello (3)
- Stefanie Böhm – words (4), vocals (4, 7), guitar (4)
- Harvey Salters – synthesizer (4), keyboards (8)
- Pedestrian – words (7)
- Wise Intelligent – words (9), vocals (9)
- Adam Drucker – cover art design, sculpture, photography
- Erin Perry – cover art design, sculpture, photography
- Wes Winship – font, layout
References
edit- ^ a b "Soft Money". Anticon. February 20, 2006. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
- ^ a b "WMD / All Around". Anticon. January 16, 2006. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
- ^ a b "Soft Money by Jel". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ Jeffries, David. "Soft Money - Jel". AllMusic. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ a b Longley, Martin (March 9, 2006). "Jel 'Soft Money'". BBC. Archived from the original on November 10, 2006. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
- ^ Betz, Chet (March 27, 2006). "Jel: Soft Money". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ^ Arnold, Eric K. (March 1, 2006). "Jel". East Bay Express. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ^ Quinlan, Thomas (March 1, 2006). "Jel - Soft Money". Exclaim!. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ a b Howe, Brian (May 9, 2006). "Jel: Soft Money". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ Gasteier, Matthew (February 28, 2006). "Jel - Soft Money". Prefix. Archived from the original on August 18, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
- ^ Dahlen, Chris (February 1, 2006). "Jel - Soft Money". SF Weekly. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ a b Gieben, Bram (February 15, 2006). "Jel - 'Soft Money'". The Skinny. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
- ^ Macdonald, Cameron (February 28, 2006). "Jel - Soft Money". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on June 30, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ Lopez, Luciana (March 1, 2006). "Jel: Soft Money". XLR8R. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
External links
edit- Soft Money at Discogs (list of releases)