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''Soft Money'' is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Jel. It was released on
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on February 20, 2006. "WMD / All Around" was released as a single from the album.


Critical reception

At
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, 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." Brian Howe of ''
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'' 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". Martin Longley of
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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." Luciana Lopez of ''
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'' said: "The album slices and dices genres throughout, and the music sounds all the better for it." Bram Gieben of '' The Skinny'' gave the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "one of the most rewarding Anticon releases so far."


Track listing


Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. * Jel – writing, production, performance, recording, arrangement *
Odd Nosdam David P. Madson (born 1976), better known by his stage name Odd Nosdam, is an American underground hip hop producer, DJ and visual artist. He is co-founder of the record label Anticon. He has remixed tracks by a variety of bands and artists in ...
– additional recording, mixing, editing, song arrangement, sounds, filter play, drone (8) *
Yoni Wolf Jonathan Avram "Yoni" Wolf (born April 30, 1979) is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock musician and co-founder of the record label Anticon. From 1997 until 2004, Wolf released music under the stage name Why?. In 2004 he transferred t ...
– piano (2), synthesizer (2) *
Josiah Wolf Josiah Wolf is a drummer and vocalist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is best known as the drummer, percussionist, and backing vocalist of the indie rock band Why?, of which his brother Yoni is the lead vocalist. History Josiah Wolf has been a member ...
– bass guitar (2) *
Andrew Broder Andrew Broder (April 16, 1845 – January 4, 1918) was an Ontario farmer, merchant and political figure. He represented Dundas in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1886 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1911 as ...
– 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


External links

* {{Authority control 2006 albums Jel (music producer) albums Anticon albums