By the Throat (Eyedea & Abilities album)

By the Throat
Studio album by Eyedea & Abilities
Released	July 21, 2009
Genre	Hip hop, rap rock
Length	29:53
Label	Rhymesayers Entertainment
Producer	DJ Abilities, Eyedea
Eyedea & Abilities chronology
E&A (2004) By the Throat (2009)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
BBC	favorable[2]
City Pages	favorable[3]
HipHopDX	[4]
PopMatters	[5]

By the Throat is the third and final studio album by American hip hop duo Eyedea & Abilities. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on July 21, 2009.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, By the Throat received an average score of 76% based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Andrew Dietzel of Popmatters gave the album 9 stars out of 10, saying, "By the Throat, succinct and emotive, is the perfect convergence of styles, attacking the listener's jugular with a powerful punk thrust, cynical observations, and an out-and-out assault on hip-hop's standards."^[5]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Eyedea, all music composed by DJ Abilities, Eyedea.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hay Fever"	2:20
2.	"Spin Cycle"	3:39
3.	"Time Flies When You Have a Gun"	1:44
4.	"Burn Fetish"	2:55
5.	"Sky Diver"	4:16
6.	"Junk"	2:46
7.	"Forgive Me for My Synapses"	1:02
8.	"This Story"	2:33
9.	"Factory"	1:55
10.	"Smile"	4:02
11.	"By the Throat"	2:41

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[6]	91
Independent Albums[7]	38
Heatseekers Albums[8]	9

References

1. "By The Throat by Eyedea & Abilities". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
2. Lawrence, Alistair (2009). "Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat - Review". BBC. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
3. Swanson, Carl Atiya (July 22, 2009). "Eyedea & Abilities: By the Throat". City Pages. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
4. Tardio, Andres (July 23, 2009). "Eyedea & Abilities - By The Throat". HipHopDX. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
5. Dietzel, Andrew (August 30, 2009). "Eyedea & Abilities: By the Throat". PopMatters. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
6. "Eyedea & Abilities - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
7. "Eyedea & Abilities - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
8. "Eyedea & Abilities - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved November 26, 2015.

External links

• By the Throat at Discogs (list of releases)