Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100
Review scores
SourceRating
Alarmfavorable
Alternative Press
The Austin Chronicle
The A.V. ClubB
HipHopDX
Punknews.org
Scene Point Blank8.4/10
Sputnikmusic4.5/5
Urb

Bad Time Zoo is the second studio album by American rapper Sims, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released on Doomtree Records on February 15, 2011. The album is entirely produced by Lazerbeak.

Sims told an interviewer for RapReviews that he had originally titled the album The Veldt, inspired by the Ray Bradbury short story, "because a lot of the songs use animal imagery as metaphors for human interactions."

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Bad Time Zoo received an average score of 79% based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The single, "Burn It Down", was listed by KEXP-FM as their "Song of the Day" on June 24, 2011.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Future Shock"4:13
2."Burn It Down"2:55
3."Bad Time Zoo"2:42
4."Too Much" (featuring P.O.S)3:29
5."One Dimensional Man"3:15
6."In My Sleep"3:01
7."When It Rolls In"3:43
8."Good Times"3:01
9."LMG"3:13
10."The Veldt"3:15
11."Weight"2:51
12."Radio Opaque"3:54
13."Sink or Syncopate"4:24
14."Hey You"3:24

Charts

ChartPeak position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)18
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)69

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