Bad Time Zoo is the second studio album by American rapper Sims, a member of Minneapolisindie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released on Doomtree Records on February 15, 2011.[11] The album is entirely produced by Lazerbeak.[12]
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."[13]
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".[1]
The single, "Burn It Down", was listed by KEXP-FM as their "Song of the Day" on June 24, 2011.[14]