Soft Money | ||||
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Studio album by Jel | ||||
Released | February 28, 2006 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 40:16 | |||
Label | Anticon | |||
Producer | Jel | |||
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Singles from Soft Money | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 67/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Exclaim! | mixed |
Pitchfork | 6.0/10 |
SF Weekly | favorable |
Stylus Magazine | C+ |
Tiny Mix Tapes |
Soft Money is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Jel. It was released on Anticon in 2006. It includes contributions from Odd Nosdam, Pedestrian, Stefanie Böhm, and Wise Intelligent. The artwork was provided by Adam Drucker and Erin Perry.
At 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."
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".