Bad Time Zoo

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.^[11] The album is entirely produced by Lazerbeak.^[12]

Bad Time Zoo
Studio album by Sims
Released	February 15, 2011 (2011-02-15)
Genre	Hip hop, alternative hip hop
Length	52:25
Label	Doomtree Records
Producer	Lazerbeak
Sims chronology
Lights Out Paris (2005) Bad Time Zoo (2011) More Than Ever (2016)
Singles from Bad Time Zoo
"Burn It Down" Released: 2010 (2010)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Alarm	favorable[2]
Alternative Press	[3]
The Austin Chronicle	[4]
The A.V. Club	B[5]
HipHopDX	[6]
Punknews.org	[7]
Scene Point Blank	8.4/10[8]
Sputnikmusic	4.5/5[9]
Urb	[10]

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."^[13]

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".^[1]

The single, "Burn It Down", was listed by KEXP-FM as their "Song of the Day" on June 24, 2011.^[14]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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

Chart	Peak position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[15]	18
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[16]	69