RoadKillOvercoat

RoadKillOvercoat is a studio album by American rapper Busdriver. It was released on Epitaph Records in 2007.[10]

RoadKillOvercoat
Studio album by Busdriver
Released	January 30, 2007
Genre	Hip hop
Length	43:22
Label	Epitaph Records
Producer	Nobody, Boom Bip, Busdriver, Bianca Casady
Busdriver chronology
Fear of a Black Tangent (2005) RoadKillOvercoat (2007) Jhelli Beam (2009)
Singles from RoadKillOvercoat
"Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now)" Released: 2006 "Sun Shower" Released: 2007

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]
Cokemachineglow	71/100[4]
Exclaim!	mixed[5]
Pitchfork	6.9/10[6]
Spin	mixed[7]
Stylus Magazine	B+[8]
XLR8R	favorable[9]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68% based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Jason Crock of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10, saying, "Nobody and Boom Bip provide beats that draw from a wider range of styles and flirt with an alien, psychedelic edge, giving Busdriver enough room to be as weird as he wants to be."[6]

Jeff Shaw of City Pages placed it at number 10 on the "Top 10 Albums of 2007" list.[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Casting Agents and Cowgirls"	Nobody	3:17
2.	"Less Yes's, More No's"	Nobody	4:21
3.	"Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia Is the Sport of Now)"	Boom Bip	3:50
4.	"Ethereal Driftwood"	Busdriver, Nobody	3:43
5.	"Secret Skin"	Nobody	3:28
6.	"Sun Shower"	Boom Bip	4:08
7.	"Go Slow" (featuring Bianca Casady)	Busdriver, Bianca Casady	3:06
8.	"The Troglodyte Wins"	Nobody	3:22
9.	"Pompous Posies! Your Party's No Fun"	Nobody	3:10
10.	"(Bloody Paw on the) Kill Floor"	Boom Bip	3:12
11.	"Mr. Mistakes (Bested by the Whisper Chasm)"	Nobody	4:02
12.	"Dream Catcher's Mitt"	Boom Bip	3:43

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Busdriver – vocals, production (4, 7)
• Nobody – production (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11)
• Boom Bip – production (3, 6, 10, 12), vocals (12)
• Bianca Casady – vocals (7), production (7)
• Isaiah Ikey Owens – synthesizer (11)
• Yadira Brown – vocals (12)
• Seripop – design

References

1. "Roadkill Overcoat by Busdriver". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
2. Brown, Marisa. "RoadKillOvercoat - Busdriver". AllMusic. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
3. Christgau, Robert. "Busdriver". Christgau's Consumer Guide. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
4. Sinacola, Dom (February 2, 2007). "Busdriver: RoadkillOvercoat". Cokemachineglow. Archived from the original on September 6, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
5. Khanna, Vish (February 26, 2007). "Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
6. Crock, Jason (February 1, 2007). "Busdriver: RoadKillOvercoat". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
7. Aaron, Charles (March 30, 2007). "Busdriver, 'RoadKillOvercoat' (Anti-/Epitaph)". Spin. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
8. Weiss, Dan (October 12, 2007). "Busdriver - Roadkillovercoat". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
9. Mackey, Robbie (February 22, 2007). "Busdriver: RoadKillOvercoat". XLR8R. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
10. "RoadKillOvercoat". Epitaph Records. Archived from the original on March 17, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
11. Shaw, Jeff (December 28, 2007). "My Top 10 Albums of 2007". City Pages. Retrieved April 4, 2016.

Further reading

• Fintoni, Laurent (September 21, 2014). "Busdriver on Busdriver: The L.A. cult hero talks us through his career album-by-album (page 7 of 10)". Fact.

External links

• RoadKillOvercoat at Discogs (list of releases)