title: Of Cities
text: # Of Cities
  
  Of Cities is the second studio album by American hip hop producer DJ Signify. It was released on Bully Records on January 20, 2009. It features guest appearances from Aesop Rock and Matt Kelly.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Cyclic Defrost | favorable |
  | Electronic Musician | 3.5/5 |
  | HipHopDX | 3.5/5 |
  | PopMatters | |
  | RapReviews.com | 8/10 |
  | The Stranger | favorable |
  | Tiny Mix Tapes | |
  | XLR8R | 7/10 |
  
  Dave Segal of The Stranger gave the album a favorable review, stating, "Signify gives us 16 tracks—including six brief interludes ripe for bumper usage in NPR's hipper segments—on Of Cities that bring the funk, but stoically, with urban grime and urbane grimness." Jennifer Marston of XLR8R said: "He's still pushing his drum-heavy style, which is tight as ever, but he's also reeled in shades of glitch, new wave, Kraut-rock, and other genres for the tracks."
  
  PopMatters named it the 3rd best instrumental hip hop album of 2009.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Credits adapted from liner notes.
  
  * DJ Signify – turntables, production, arrangement, mixing
  * Aesop Rock – vocals (2, 11), lyrics (2, 11)
  * Matt Kelly – additional arrangement (2, 7, 16), guitar (5), keyboards (5)
  * Blockhead – co-production (4, 9)
  * Joe Beats – engineering
  * Harris Newman – mastering
  * Paul "Quo" Kwiakowski – artwork, layout
  * Todd Lown – photography
  * Chris Bryant – photography
  