A Badly Broken Code is the debut studio album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolisindie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released by Doomtree Records in 2010.
The album title comes from a line in the poem "Nostalgia" by American poet Billy Collins.[5]
Jakob Dorof of Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "The result is likely one of the best hip-hop songs you'll hear this year, let alone from the rare type of MC that manages to be white, female, and supremely talented all in one."[4]The A.V. Club listed it as the 20th best album of 2010.[6] In 2010, City Pages listed it as the "Best Local Album of the Past 12 Months".[7]
The track "The Bullpen" was frequently used as walk out music at rallies by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar during her 2020 Democratic presidential primaries campaign.