The Music Scene (album)

The Music Scene is the fourth solo studio album by American hip hop producer Blockhead. It was released on Ninja Tune in 2009. The video for the album's title track featured in the Animals episode of Off the Air.[10]

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]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album 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

Personnel

Credits adapted from the CD liner notes.

• Blockhead – production
• Damien Paris – guitar (7, 9), bass guitar (3, 7, 8, 10)
• Wilder Zoby – vocoder (9)
• DJ Signify – co-production (11), turntables (1, 12)
• Baby Dayliner – mixing
• Kevin Metcalfe – mastering
• Owen Brozman – artwork
• Matt Rota – color, design

References

1. "The Music Scene - Blockhead". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
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. 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.
10. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=59QBOO6m210&t=11s

External links

• The Music Scene at Discogs (list of releases)