The Music Scene (album)

The Music Scene
Studio album by Blockhead
Released November 2, 2009
Genre Instrumental hip hop
Length 63:19
Label Ninja Tune
Producer Blockhead
Blockhead chronology

Uncle Tony's Coloring Book
(2007)		 The Music Scene
(2009)		 Interludes After Midnight
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (75/100)[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [2]
BBC (favorable)[3]
Consequence of Sound (C-)[4]
Exclaim! (favorable)[5]
MusicOMH [6]
PopMatters [7]
Resident Advisor (2.5/5)[8]
XLR8R (6.5/10)[9]

The Music Scene is the fourth studio album by American hip hop producer Blockhead. It was released on Ninja Tune in 2009.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Music Scene received an average score of 75% based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Sarah Ferguson of Exclaim! said: "Successfully empowering old sounds, Blockhead conceptualizes and plays with mindful spoken word, soulful diva vocals and weird '50s-era television audio amongst ballsy jazz horns and instrumentation, voodoo singing and sounds borrowed from opera and classical."[5] Rick Anderson of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Everyone makes sample-based music these days, but very few people use found sounds and prefab musical snippets as creatively and thoughtfully as Blockhead does."[2]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "It's Raining Clouds"   5:54
2. "The Music Scene"   4:49
3. "Only Sequences Change"   4:44
4. "Which One of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer?"   4:48
5. "Attack the Doctor"   5:46
6. "The Prettiest Sea Slug"   4:35
7. "The Daily Routine"   6:48
8. "Tricky Turtle"   4:38
9. "Four Walls"   5:42
10. "Pity Party"   4:22
11. "Hell Camp"   4:37
12. "Farewell Spaceman"   6:35

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Music Scene - Blockhead". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anderson, Rick. "Blockhead - The Music Scene". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ Hesketh, Sam (2010). "Blockhead - The Music Scene - Review". BBC. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ Maideron, Ted (January 26, 2010). "Blockhead – The Music Scene". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ferguson, Sarah (January 8, 2010). "Blockhead - The Music Scene". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  6. ↑ Hogwood, Ben (January 18, 2010). "Blockhead – The Music Scene". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ Schiller, Mike (January 21, 2010). "Blockhead: The Music Scene". PopMatters. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  8. ↑ Clarke, Paul (January 18, 2010). "Blockhead - The Music Scene". Resident Advisor. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  9. ↑ Geary, Rob (February 3, 2010). "Blockhead The Music Scene". XLR8R. Retrieved April 10, 2015.

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