Seven's Travels

Seven's Travels
Studio album by Atmosphere
Released September 23, 2003
Genre Underground Rap
Length 70:34
Label Rhymesayers / Epitaph
Producer Ant
Atmosphere chronology
God Loves Ugly
(2002)		 Seven's Travels
(2003)		 You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
(2005)
Alternative cover
Original unreleased album cover. It would eventually be used for the 10th anniversary reissue.
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
HipHopDX[2]
RapReviews(6.5/10)[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
Stylus MagazineB−[5]

Seven's Travels is the third studio album by the Minneapolis hip hop group Atmosphere, their first for Epitaph. It was released on September 23, 2003. "Trying to Find a Balance" and "National Disgrace" were released as singles and music videos were made for both.

The original cover features a naked, bare-breasted woman laying in a field.[6] It was changed to a plain white cover resembling The White Album due to the death of Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler, a 16-year-old girl who was murdered by a janitor during an Atmosphere show in Albuquerque, NM on July 16, 2003. The janitor, convicted pedophile Dominic Akers, had led the girl backstage, claiming he would allow her to meet vocalist Sean Daley (aka Slug).[7] Slug dedicates the album to Zvaifler in the liner notes,[8] and later wrote about the incident and his reaction in a song entitled "That Night,[9][10]" which appears on the 2005 album You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having. Slug would later describe the song as one he 'wasn't supposed to write[11]' and marks the 2005 album as a whole as a beginning point of more positive storytelling in his music.[12]

On December 10, 2013, 3,000 limited edition vinyl pressings were released in celebration of the album's tenth anniversary. It uses the album's original cover art and contains bonus tracks.[13]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "History"   1:24
2. "Trying to Find a Balance"   4:17
3. "Bird Sings Why the Caged I Know"   2:55
4. "Reflections"   4:19
5. "Gotta Lotta Walls"   4:46
6. "The Keys to Life vs. 15 Minutes of Fame"   2:38
7. "Apple"   1:59
8. "Suicidegirls"   2:40
9. "Jason"   0:47
10. "Cats Van Bags" (featuring Brother Ali) 4:01
11. "Los Angeles"   2:14
12. "Lifter Puller"   6:18
13. "Shoes"   3:01
14. "National Disgrace"   5:02
15. "Denvemolorado"   3:11
16. "Liquor Lyles Cool July"   2:24
17. "Good Times (Sick Pimpin')"   4:56
18. "In My Continental"   4:28
19. "Always Coming Back Home to You"   4:02
20. "Say Shh..." (Hidden track) 5:09
Total length:
 1:10:34

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ J-23 (2003-09-23). "review". Hiphopdx.com. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  3. ↑ "review". Rapreviews.com. 2003-11-18. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  4. ↑ Rolling Stone review Archived September 30, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Stylus Magazine review
  6. ↑ "Seven's Travels Original Artwork". Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
  7. ↑ "ABQjournal: Sunshine Theater Killer Gets Life". abqjournal.com.
  8. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=567796
  9. ↑ "Atmosphere – That Night". Genius.
  10. ↑ "Atlantis Submarines (Barbados)".,
  11. ↑ http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/11507281.html
  12. ↑ "Atmosphere's Slug Tells How the Rape and Murder of a Fan Changed His Music and His Life". SF Weekly.
  13. ↑ "RECORD STORE DAY - Seven's Travels [3xLP 10 Year Anniversary Edition]". recordstoreday.com.

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