''Jonestown'' is an album by Canadian hip hop artist

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. Released in 2009, the album was D-Sisive's second full-length release that year after ''

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'', and was made available for a free digital download. The album art features a jug of

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", which is associated with the 1978 Jonestown mass murder–suicide.

Critical reception

Chris Dart of ''

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'' reviewed the album positively, calling it "alternately head-nodding, creepy and darkly humorous", and writing that it "marks a high point for -Sisive and is hopefully a sign of even bigger things to come."

Track listing

References

External links

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