The Music Scene (album)

The Music Scene
Studio album by Blockhead
Released November 2, 2009 (2009-11-02)
Genre Instrumental hip hop
Length 63:19
Label Ninja Tune
Producer Blockhead
Blockhead chronology
Uncle Tony's Coloring Book
(2007)Uncle Tony's Coloring Book2007		 The Music Scene
(2009)		 Interludes After Midnight
(2012)Interludes After Midnight2012
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
BBCfavorable[3]
Consequence of SoundC-[4]
Exclaim!favorable[5]
MusicOMH[6]
PopMatters[7]
Resident Advisor2.5/5[8]
XLR8R6.5/10[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.TitleLength
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 2 "The Music Scene - Blockhead". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  2. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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