Neighborhood Gods Unlimited is the tenth studio album by American rapper and comedian Open Mike Eagle. It was released on July 11, 2025, via Auto Reverse Records in LP, CD and digital formats.
Background The album was preceded by Open Mike's 2023 release, Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering.
The lead single, "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)", was released on June 3, 2025. It was followed by the second single "My Co-Worker Clark Kent's Secret Black Box" on August 6, 2025, alongside a music video directed by Stoney Sharp.
Critical reception
John Amen of Beats Per Minute described the album as "a potent, enticing, and, yes, elusive project," giving it a rating of 82%. It received a rating of 8.5 from Pitchfork, whose reviewer Paul Thompson noted it as "conceived as a dispatch from a fictional cable channel with a budget so small that it can only broadcast for one hour a week." Casey Epstein-Gross of Paste assigned the album a score of 8.3 out of ten and described the production of the album as "the glue holding its conceptual particles together," stating "This is where Neighborhood Gods Unlimited leaves us: not with a fantasy of wholeness, but with a quiet commitment to keep searching among the shards anyway."
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Track listing
Note signifies a co-producer
Personnel Credits adapted from Bandcamp. Willie Green – mixing, mastering Mose Wheeler – engineering assistance Open Mike Eagle – executive production Mike Parvizi – live bass on "Contraband (The Plug Has Bags of Me)" Marcus Wallinder – art Brad Tuominen – layout
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