The Music Scene is the fourth solo studio album by American hip hop producer Blockhead. It was released on Ninja Tune on November 3, 2009.[1] It received generally favorable reviews from critics.[2]
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".[2]
Rick Anderson of AllMusic commented that "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."[3]
Sarah Ferguson of Exclaim! said, "The music found on The Music Scene broadcasts a place for explorative musical journeying much greater than one found on pop radio."[6]
Ben Hogwood of MusicOMH wrote, "For Blockhead, this album would seem to open up a whole new realm of possibilities, showing as it does an ability to break out of the confines of hip hop, which he had already mastered."[7]