title: Bad Time Zoo
text: # Bad Time Zoo
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Aggregate scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Metacritic | 79/100 |
  | Review scores ||
  | Source | Rating |
  | Alarm | favorable |
  | Alternative Press | |
  | The Austin Chronicle | |
  | The A.V. Club | B |
  | HipHopDX | |
  | Punknews.org | |
  | Scene Point Blank | 8.4/10 |
  | Sputnikmusic | 4.5/5 |
  | Urb | |
  
  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. The album is entirely produced by Lazerbeak.
  
  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."
  
  ## 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".
  
  The single, "Burn It Down", was listed by KEXP-FM as their "Song of the Day" on June 24, 2011.
  
  ## Charts
  
  | Chart | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) | 18 |
  | US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) | 69 |
  