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)		 The Music Scene
(2009)		 Interludes After Midnight
(2012)
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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