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The Music Scene
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Ninja Tune
Release Date: 12 January 2010
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rap
Summary
This is the third album for the New York-based rapper.
Also By This Artist: Music By Cavelight
Also On The Web: Blockhead @ Ninja Tune MySpace
What The Critics Said
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All Music Guide
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.
Read Full Review >BBC Music
In The Music Scene, Blockhead has made both pretty melancholic tracks and straight-up thump-the-desk bangers bedfellows, and for that the new decade should be eternally thankful.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
Eclectic, calming and yet strangely energetic, his music is well worth getting acquainted with.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press
While DJ Shadow keeps us hanging for a return to form, Blockhead picks up the slack with a fantastic disc that's solid throughout. [Mar 2010, p.90]
PopMatters
Parts of The Music Scene flirt with and even achieve greatness, standing tall as instrumentals any music fan would be advised to hear. Regrettably, the tracks in the box labeled “same old Blockhead” stick out amongst such greatness, keeping the album from achieving same.
Read Full Review >RapReviews.com
The Music Scene is a good album, but one that is hard to get excited about.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
He’s good at what he does, and, to boot, he continues to release consistently enjoyable music, perhaps single-handedly keeping the obsolescing trip-hop out of the next decade’s dentist office.
Read Full Review >XLR8r
The Music Scene adds new knots to Blockhead's sly, ironic take on boom-bap, incorporating shifting structures that spiral into changing tempos, half-remembered snippets of soul horns and gnarly old guitars, and occasional drifts into hazy, shimmering psychedelia. Sadly, this fog thickly enshrouds the back half of the disc as the tempos stagnate, rendering it inert and crying out for a shot of adrenaline.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
The loose-limbed beats, fuzzy keyboards and faraway trumpet on Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer? are loungecore at its best, while The Daily Routine's distortion is full of atmosphere. [Feb 2010, p. 103]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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