The Free Houdini
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| Mixtape by Themselves | ||||
| Released | March 25, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop | |||
| Length | 54:42 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
| Producer | Jel, Doseone | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Cokemachineglow | favorable |
| Exclaim! | favorable |
| HipHopDX | 3.0/5 |
| Pitchfork | 6.6/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
| RapReviews.com | 7.5/10 |
| Robert Christgau |  |
The Free Houdini (styled as theFREEhoudini) is a 2009 mixtape by American hip hop duo Themselves.
It is a return after a six-year hiatus that saw the members, Jel and Doseone, spend the majority of their time on their other band Subtle. It was made available for 90 days as a one-track MP3 for download from the Anticon website, later released in a deluxe CD package.
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the mixtape received an average score of 74% based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Jer Fairall of PopMatters gave the mixtape 8 stars out of 10, saying, "Here, Doseone is once again utilizing his skills as a performer to propel the music forward, and the result is a record that is actually thrilling and fun to listen to, rather than simply 'interesting'." Jayson Greene of Pitchfork gave the mixtape a 6.6 out of 10 and called it "another step in Anticon's breathless, never-ending push forward."
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