Blockhead

Add Date: 01/19/2010

Artist: Blockhead

Album: The Music Scene

Label: Ninja Tune

Genre: Trip-Hop

Comments: I'll be honest and say that I'm not intricately familiar with most any electronic music, to say nothing of trip-hop. However, I do know what I like, and I like this.

Blockhead is the artist name of Anthony Simon, who is probably best known for doing the production rock for Aesop Rock. As opposed to the whole indie rap aspect of Aesop Rock, Blockhead is primarily sample-based, with an emphasis on changing the entire structure of the song right when things are starting to settle into a fairly predictable pattern. This is seen in the first track, "It's Raining Clouds," which starts out in a drowsy downtempo opening to a jittery drums and bass clusterduck. Probably the best song (though, as always, FCC-prohibited and seven minutes), is "The Daily Routine," which is a pleasantly disturbing instrumental over a drug addicted couple arguing. I also support "Four Walls," which is Blockhead's subtle parody/attack on the recent spite of Autotune doing its best to make pop music awful as shit.