When Fish Ride Bicycles

When Fish Ride Bicycles
Studio album by The Cool Kids
Released July 12, 2011
Recorded 2009-2011
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length 39:37
Label Green Label Sound, C.A.K.E. Recordings
Producer The Cool Kids (also exec.), Chuck Inglish, The Neptunes, Travis Barker
The Cool Kids chronology
Tacklebox
(2010)
When Fish Ride Bicycles
(2011)

When Fish Ride Bicycles is the only studio album by American hip hop duo The Cool Kids. Released on July 12, 2011 under Green Label Sound Records,[1] this would also be their 2nd & final release under a major label. The album features the collaborations production, from Chuck Inglish (one half of the duo), The Neptunes, and Travis Barker, along with appearances from Bun B, Ghostface Killah, Travis Barker, and Asher Roth. This is the first studio recording of the group after the mixtape Tacklebox, in the beginning of 2010. The song Swimsuits is used on a Mountain Dew Commercial.

Development

When Fish Ride Bicycles was announced to be 92% complete on February 16, 2009 by Chuck Inglish on their blog. Numerous delays kept pushing the album back and a majority of the original material was released on the Gone Fishing and Tackclebox mixtapes.

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Blare[3]
Chicago Tribune[4]
Consequence of Sound[5]
Okayplayer(81/100)[6]
PopMatters(8/10)[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Spin(8/10)[9]
URB[10]
XXL (XL)[11]

Reception

When Fish Ride Bicycles received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews." The album title was a trending topic on Twitter.[12]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Rush Hour Traffic"  Antoine Reed, Evan IngersollChuck Inglish 3:04
2. "GMC"  Ingersoll, ReedChuck Inglish 3:37
3. "Boomin'" (featuring Tennille)Ingersoll, Reed, TennilleChuck Inglish 3:51
4. "Sour Apples" (featuring Travis Barker)Ingersoll, ReedTravis Barker, Chuck Inglish (co.) 2:31
5. "Penny Hardaway" (featuring Ghostface Killah)Dennis Coles, Ingersoll, ReedChuck Inglish 4:16
6. "Bundle Up"  Ingersoll, ReedChuck Inglish 3:22
7. "Gas Station" (featuring Bun B)Bernard Freeman, Ingersoll, ReedChuck Inglish 4:30
8. "Get Right"  Chad Hugo, Ingersoll, Reed, Pharrell WilliamsThe Neptunes 3:13
9. "Swimsuits" (featuring Mayer Hawthorne)Andrew Cohen, Ingersoll, ReedChuck Inglish 2:31
10. "Roll Call" (featuring Asher Roth, Chip tha Ripper and Boldy James)Charles Worth, Ingersoll, James Bolden, Reed, RothChuck Inglish 5:02
11. "Summer Jam" (featuring Maxine Ashley)Ingersoll, Maxine Ashley, Reed, Williams, RileyThe Neptunes 3:40

References

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