This is also only the second hip-hop album to ever get an 8/10 from him, the other being Public Enemy's It Takes A Nation....
Has anyone listened to this full thing yet? Is it good?
Keep in mind that in this decade, an 8/10 from Scaruffi means top 5 of the decade for him. The only other albums to receive an 8/10 or higher in the 2010s are: Joanna Newsom's Have One On Me, Janelle Monae's The ArchAndroid, Julia Holter's Tragedy, and some metal album I forget the name of.
scaruffi is an autistic italian with a shitty website, my dog holds more credence towards music reviews
Jonathan Walker
Show us your dog's reviews then.
Joseph Smith
Listening to A right now, it's kinda cool
Brandon Jones
dogs cant type on keyboards you fuckin idiot
Christian Russell
Checkmate!
William Gray
If this were famous and praised by music critics he would have called it overrated shit and gave it a 6. Good thing it's something no one's ever heard of.
Parker Hall
>Parquet Course >Course
Ryder Ortiz
That's what (((They))) want you to think, you bluepilled fool.
Ayden Cox
>Scaruffi just gave his first 8/10 since 2014 Not true This is the most recent album he's given an 8 to, but he just recently gave an 8 to Colors.
Why do you care what this man says? Anyway, listened to the whole thing once, it's good, I'm gonna listen to it again if I have the time.
Leo Thompson
>Scaruffi rating literal bandcamp-core how the mighty have fallen
Aaron Sanchez
That's not a citation State your point
Hunter Clark
not true
did you even read the OP?
he gave an 8/10 to Janelle Monae, who is very famous and praised by critics, with multiple hit singles. also there are dozens of super popular artists he has give 8-9/10 to, such as The Doors, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, etc.
Yeah but Colors is a 2000s album, I mean that this new one is the first NEW album he's given an 8 to.
Oliver Flores
Who gives a flying fuck about this Italian autist
Benjamin Fisher
newfags that think he's anything other than a meme and take his opinions seriously
James Powell
I do. He's the greatest living critic of popular music.
Connor Jackson
seems pretty cool. It seems like an obvious choice for a piero 8, he always goes for things that seem big, sprawling and ambitious.
he's an big meme
Evan Taylor
>greatest >critic does not compute
Easton Turner
>hurr le durr critics don't matter, I find everything completely on my own!!
fuck off, as if you would know about this album without him.
Eli Wilson
I made this album tho
Jaxon Morgan
>Texas' mysterious Impossible Nothing painstakingly constructed the monumental four-hour tour de force of Phonemenomicon (2016), consisting of 26 ten-minute collages (each one lasts exactly 10:00). Why 26? Because each piece is titled after a letter of the alphabet. >A alone contains more ideas than the average three-minute song, lined up to compose a cinematic score with sections that are sentimental and sections that are pure fun. B plunders hip-hop music to create a hypnotic syncopated industrial clockwork. C begins like a lame sample of a lame funk-soul song but soon becomes a harrowing psychodrama... except for returning to a funk-soul party. D deconstructs jazz with a dizzying multitude of colliding fragments. E toys with a pounding Afro-funk shuffle but quickly delves into constantly mutating machine music and towards the end blends in a powerful punch of riff and drumming. F dissolves reggae steps into a molasses of warped electronica that at the end is hijacked by a jazz jam. G targets what sounds like the soundtrack of a thriller, but then takes a detour into a surreal exotic chant, only to end with a more magniloquent cinematic theme. H is another tribute to euphoric soul music of the 1960s with a great break/solo of distorted keyboards at the seven-minute mark. A similar breathtaking solo opens I. >J first disintegrates funk-jazz of the 1960s, then shoots a hysterical techno missile, then sets in motion cold machine music, then rediscovers humanity in a soaring synth drone and sounds of the beach. >M concocts a romantic trumpet melody over mechanical polyrhythms that turns into a funk orgy and a videogame sonata. A female shouter has to duel with a rapper, an accordion and a big band in N, one of the virtuoso pieces littered with all sorts of incidents.
Charles Torres
>K is pure dancefloor, while S ends in a frenzied state of panic. By the standards of this operation, P is ambient music: the source cannot be identified and all we hear is a hypnotic sequence of beats and chords; a very captivating pieces of instrumental dance music, that towards the end morphs into a sort of xylophone melody. Musique concrete artist Pierre Henry should have done this. Slavic-gypsy music and dubstep are the ingredients of O. R intones a spastic reggae dancehall beat and a petulant keyboard launches into an anthemic melody played at triple speed. Three more minutes and the piece is invaded by alien noise so that, when the petulant keyboard resumes, it feels like UFO music. T is an even more creative take on reggae rhythm as played by an army of sentient industrial machines. W dishes out some Hendrix-ian chaos mixed with vocal harmonies of the ancient past and ends in a festive beach party. X paints another surrealistic exotic panorama, this one with Indian and klezmer overtones. Z sounds like a synth-pop take on Los Del Rio's dance craze Macarena by electronic funk-jazz guru Herbie Hancock, slowly contaminated by a horn fanfare and by an ecstatic hippy chant. Whenever the artist injects humor or satire, the project evokes the Residents, but clearly a lot more science went into these four hours of superhuman cut and paste.
Levi Miller
Idiots who think that not giving a 10 never is the same as "I know what I'm talking about!".
Christopher Ward
He's THE tastemaker.
Ayden Rogers
prove it
Alexander White
lots of pompous purple prose for something that is essentially an overly-long circa 2004 glitch-hip
Wyatt Phillips
>he gave an 8/10 to Janelle Monae, who is very famous and praised by critics, with multiple hit singles. also there are dozens of super popular artists he has give 8-9/10 to, such as The Doors, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, etc.
Those are famous and praised by critics, but actual music listeners don't take them that seriously, other than Bob Dylan, but even then he gives his best albums 4s and 5s.
Grayson Wright
prove me wrong protip: you can't
Lucas Powell
retard
Dylan Roberts
bowie cuck spotted
Cameron Howard
Why rely on critics? Be a little original and think what you want about a certain artist or album.
Liam Gray
>muh no true scotsman Fuck off lad
Joshua Butler
> but actual music listeners don't take them that seriously
WTF does this even mean?
Aaron Martinez
Putting minimal value into what a critic might say has little to do with being original you reddit tier faggot.
Connor Clark
>actual music listeners don't take them that seriously
lolwut? also he gave Blonde On Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blood On The Tracks all 8 or higher (BoB is actually a 9). you can't tell me those aren't his best albums.
okay, say I want to find an instrumental hip-hop album that is good.
what do I do if I don't look at critics who have already chosen what they consider to be of high quality? listen to thousands of sitty bandcamp, soundcloud, discogs, etc. releases that have that genre tag until I maybe find something decent? come on, that's fucking retarded. nobody does that, it's a waste of time. the artists who don't get reviewed by critics (especially Scaruffi) are rarely worth listening to.
Gavin Smith
>nobody does that how do you reckon all these critics find the music that they spoonfeed to braindead lazy retards like you?
Carter King
dunno, but I'm sure they have their sources.
seriously, do you really think it makes sense to listen to hundreds of hours of random music by literal nobodies in the hopes that you will find some hidden gem that is "better" than everything that is popular, so you can feel super special and think you have unique taste?
David Rodriguez
this album is hip hop?
Nolan Campbell
ikr
Levi Turner
you're a fucking dog man
Wyatt Sanchez
How am I posting then
Joseph Hall
lmao you're so clueless >scaruffi-drones in a nutshell
Andrew Roberts
better listen to some fag on the internet who gave 9 out of 10 to a mash up album
speaking of which he reviewed it in some bandcamp special
The instrumentals are quite obviously hip hop beats at their core, yeah.
William Stewart
kek
Luis Lopez
>on the 8 minute mark on track K he goes on some racist diatribe or something
Well now I know why scaruffi loves it so much.
Leo Nelson
>changed to Buy Now $1 USD just as I came back home Fug.
Anyone have a FLAC mega?
Anthony Cox
are you really going to trust the opinion of someone who thinks it should be legal to fuck 12 year olds?
Evan Murphy
yeah but it's not like a 'hip hop' album as much as this is just a product of the present producer's mindset, this isn't like rapping as much as it is a sample based album
also in reference to the OP, Janelle Monae's album could be considered a hip-hop type release
just pay a dollar faggot
Dominic Ramirez
I'm not paying for some bandcamp shill's album even if Scaruffi gave it an 8/10.
Jaxson Torres
how do you know it's a bandcamp shill if you haven't even heard it, and if that's the case why do you need flac
Nolan Walker
I'll give it a listen to see if I like it. Seems weird that Scaruffi would listen to a random bandcamp album, but I'm not too familiar with Impossible Nothing anyways. Hope it's good.
Also, don't take his ratings as law, just take them as recommendations. Kind of obvious, but a lot of you don't seem to follow that.
Cooper Cruz
>Also, don't take his ratings as law, just take them as recommendations I started this way but I feel like I'm unconsciously beginning to identify with them
how do I stop?
Joseph Wilson
Scaruffi's reviewed a few bandcamp albums (a couple I know of is Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell and In Black Robes, both of which got a 7.5). I'm pretty sure if you just ask him to review something and make a half decent case for checking it out, he'll listen and write about it.
Mason Martinez
How long until Scaruffi discovers Vaporwave?
Hudson Davis
The reason that I take scaruffi seriously is that every single one of his 7.5's and 8's is fucking great or amazing, and no one has ever done much to actually listen to all of them like I did
Camden Wood
>how do I stop? You stumble upon Korn or Aqua or that EDM metal album he gave a 7/10 to recently.
Isaac Stewart
I think Scaruffi would appreciate some vaporware releases
Nathaniel Mitchell
Post a photo of ureselve doggo
Christian Perez
dogs can't use cameras you fucking idiot
Carson Howard
maybe some but he'd probably write off a lot of its ethos
Robert Gonzalez
watch me
Leo Walker
>actual music listeners
good old Sup Forums. still as autistic as always i see
> Z sounds like a synth-pop take on Los Del Rio's dance craze Macarena by electronic funk-jazz guru Herbie Hancock
I'm sold
Wyatt Brooks
I mean it isn't like impressive but there isn't anything wrong with it?
David Wright
uh its ugly as fuck?
so far the musics pretty good tho.
Wyatt Thompson
How can a man be so right all the time?
Nolan Gomez
all these scruffy reviews recently
Alexander Sanders
except it's not ugly as fuck, and you are actually wrong
Nathan Myers
Haha this picture. Goddamn I love this man.
Landon Reyes
>mfw Texas finally has more than 3 notable bands Also, you know he's gonna give this an 8 too He wants to breed with paul banks and danny.
Austin Nguyen
>it samples Hoppipolla I can't take this seriously.
Camden Gutierrez
>electronic funk-jazz guru Herbie Hancock
Justin Williams
Eh I feel like the songs on that album are too conventionally structured to a point where it is a fault, and despite its strengths I still feel that scaruffi will think this too
Caleb Rogers
It's good but at the same time overrated by Scaruffi. Given that Scaruffi values innovation It's really ignorant (if not, then hypocritic) how he puts an album that sounds too indebted to VHS Head and other glitch artists of recent years the rank of second best hip-hop album of all time and greatest of 2016. If duration is all that matters then he would have given Pan Sonic's Kesto an 8, too
Dylan Hall
>Scaruffi drones
who literally gives a fuck
Chase Robinson
Has he rated Elseq yet? I wonder what score he is going to give it.
Ryan Wilson
me
Nicholas Hughes
>seriously, do you really think it makes sense to listen to hundreds of hours of random music by literal nobodies in the hopes that you will find some hidden gem that is "better" than everything that is popular, so you can feel super special and think you have unique taste? No, so I can sift through music I don't necessarily care for and find music I like best.
If you're looking through a specific genre, and you're going through bandcamp or discogs or whatever, and you're not looking at ANY critics, how the fuck do you know if anything is better than anything else BEFORE listening? do you just pick ones with album covers or titles you like?
Jack Wilson
The layering reminds me more like his second album.
>and you're not looking at ANY critics rateyourmusic.com
Angel Rogers
>links a website for music criticism
bruh
Jaxson Russell
not everyone has the time to sift through all music that gets released to find the good albums
that's why you have reviewers in the first place
Jordan Morgan
>average RYM user is better than Scaruffi lmao
Landon Jackson
are you implying that the people who rate/review albums on RYM are not critics? what kind of arbitrary standard for criticism do you have? I've seen how people review on that site, you think Scaruffi is pretentious and idiotic, jesus wait until you see what kind of cringefests RYM has to offer.
Colton Diaz
lmao, exactly my thoughts
Oliver Lewis
Oh my mistake, you guys are talking about music objectively. I don't think my favorite music is the "best" or anything nor do I know if it's "better" before listening to it. That's what I listen to it. I get recommendations based off of stuff I listen to. I do look at what's "critically acclaimed" before diving into a genre or st, but I use those as reference. Otherwise, I browse around for albums similar to those or related somehow. And yeah, I use multiple platforms to find new music (Spotify, YT, GPlay, Bandcamp, SoundCloud). I don't keep to date with critics, read their full interviews, I don't care. If I like it, I do. If I don't, I don't. Music is too much of a pissing contest for some people. While artists do try to advance their craft, the product is what it is to the artist, not necessarily something to compare as better or worse than something. It just is.
