Scaruffi just gave his first 8/10 since 2014 to a 4-hour-lon

scaruffi is an autistic italian with a shitty website, my dog holds more credence towards music reviews

>>70679795

Show us your dog's reviews then.

Listening to A right now, it's kinda cool

>>70679820
dogs cant type on keyboards you fuckin idiot

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>>70679866
Checkmate!

>>70679748

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.

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>>70679748
>Parquet Course
>Course

>>70679866
That's what (((They))) want you to think, you bluepilled fool.

>>70679748
>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.

>>70679890
[citation needed]

>>70679958
>[citation needed]
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/bjork.html

>>70679748
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.

>Scaruffi rating literal bandcamp-core
how the mighty have fallen

>>70679984
That's not a citation
State your point

>>70679890

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.

>>70679958

Yeah but Colors is a 2000s album, I mean that this new one is the first NEW album he's given an 8 to.

>>70679748
Who gives a flying fuck about this Italian autist

>>70680136
newfags that think he's anything other than a meme and take his opinions seriously

>>70680136

I do. He's the greatest living critic of popular music.

>>70679748
seems pretty cool. It seems like an obvious choice for a piero 8, he always goes for things that seem big, sprawling and ambitious.

>>70680136
he's an big meme

>>70680159
>greatest
>critic
does not compute

>>70680175

>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.

>>70680193
I made this album tho

>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.

>>70680204

>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.

>>70680136
Idiots who think that not giving a 10 never is the same as "I know what I'm talking about!".

>>70680136
He's THE tastemaker.

>>70680202

prove it

>>70680204
>>70680215
lots of pompous purple prose for something that is essentially an overly-long circa 2004 glitch-hip

>>70680101
>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.

>>70680227
prove me wrong
protip: you can't

>>70679866
retard

>>70680136
bowie cuck spotted

>>70680159
>>70680225
Why rely on critics? Be a little original and think what you want about a certain artist or album.

>>70680248
>muh no true scotsman
Fuck off lad

>>70680248
> but actual music listeners don't take them that seriously

WTF does this even mean?

>>70680385
Putting minimal value into what a critic might say has little to do with being original you reddit tier faggot.

>>70680248

>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.

>>70680385

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.

>>70681435
>nobody does that
how do you reckon all these critics find the music that they spoonfeed to braindead lazy retards like you?

>>70681482

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?

>>70679748
this album is hip hop?

>>70680571
ikr

>>70679866
you're a fucking dog man

>>70679866
How am I posting then

>>70682227
lmao you're so clueless
>scaruffi-drones in a nutshell

>>70680136
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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3vb_2TmFgc

>>70682681
The instrumentals are quite obviously hip hop beats at their core, yeah.

>>70679795

kek

>>70682947

>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.

>>70679748
>changed to Buy Now $1 USD just as I came back home
Fug.

Anyone have a FLAC mega?

>>70679748
are you really going to trust the opinion of someone who thinks it should be legal to fuck 12 year olds?

>>70682957
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

>>70683130
just pay a dollar faggot

>>70683224
I'm not paying for some bandcamp shill's album even if Scaruffi gave it an 8/10.

>>70683274
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

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.

>>70683344
>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?

>>70683344

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.

How long until Scaruffi discovers Vaporwave?

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

>>70683375
>how do I stop?
You stumble upon Korn or Aqua or that EDM metal album he gave a 7/10 to recently.

>>70683443
I think Scaruffi would appreciate some vaporware releases

>>70682830
Post a photo of ureselve doggo

>>70683782
dogs can't use cameras you fucking idiot

>>70683642
maybe some but he'd probably write off a lot of its ethos

>>70679866
watch me

>>70680248
>actual music listeners

good old /mu/. still as autistic as always i see

https://youtu.be/E3vb_2TmFgc?t=196

scaruffi confirmed fantanodrone

>>70683451
>Appetite for Destruction
>great or amazing

>>70679866
t. cat

this isnt that great to be honest

>>70679748
but is it any good?

well the cover is fucking awful

>>70679748

> 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

>>70685471
I mean it isn't like impressive but there isn't anything wrong with it?

>>70685739
uh its ugly as fuck?

so far the musics pretty good tho.

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How can a man be so right all the time?

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all these scruffy reviews recently

>>70685865
>>70685865
except it's not ugly as fuck, and you are actually wrong

>>70685992
Haha this picture. Goddamn I love this man.

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>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.

>it samples Hoppipolla
I can't take this seriously.

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>>70685605
>electronic funk-jazz guru Herbie Hancock

>>70686842
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

>>70679748
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

>>70679748
>Scaruffi drones

who literally gives a fuck

>>70687501
Has he rated Elseq yet? I wonder what score he is going to give it.

>>70687521
me

>>70682227
>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.

>>70687501
>VHS Head
who?
link?

>>70687704
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGsXeybF-Zo

>>70687568

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?

>>70687742
The layering reminds me more like his second album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhQNALAhXpU

>>70687813
>like his
*of his

>>70682227
yikes

>>70687789
>and you're not looking at ANY critics
rateyourmusic.com

>>70687883
>links a website for music criticism

bruh

>>70687568
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

>>70687883
>average RYM user is better than Scaruffi
lmao

>>70687883

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.

>>70679922
lmao, exactly my thoughts

>>70687789
>>70688207
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.

>>70688950
But this also depends on what makes good music to the listener

>>70687468
>too conventionally structured
what was meant by this. it's got a structure that's sort of like a combination of XXX and Old
XXX in the sense that there's a notable change in the flow of songs related to the change in flow of *before drugs, drugs, after drugs, more drugs, comedown*
Old in the sense that more of the accessible tracks are in the first half, and the second half just goes fucking insane
AE has some overall flow to it, it's just subtle as hell. Examples I can think of off the top of my head are:
1. Last line of From the Ground transitioning into When it Rain
2. The last part of Get Hi slows down to an almost spooky sound in the last few second, transitioning into the comedown on Hell for It.

>>70689179
*Old in the sense that it has a half and half structure, except AE has mostly accessible tracks in the first half and goes fucking insane in the second half, where Old has low songs in the first half and high songs in the second half.

>>70689179
>>70689230
I'm not anybody to have a valid analysis on any of Danny Brown's work as I have not listened to him extensively, but just from my perspective of the album, it has "conventionally" structured songs in that most are on the shorter side and have some degree of a verse-chorus-verse structure that isn't unusual to see in many artists' works.
In all seriousness though you seem to have a more fleshed out opinion than me though so you probably are in a better place to judge than I am lol

>>70680245
Sure, like what?

>>70687883
Those are critics, you dumbfuck.

>>70689545
That looks unconventionally beautiful

>>70689545
>that mouse
NOPE

>>70689545
wtf am I looking at

what?
daytime?

>>70680248
>but actual music listeners don't take them that seriously
no, teenagers who use music as a fashion accessory don't take them seriously.

>>70690410
I'm pretty sure he meant "us", /mu/, by actual music listeners.
No need to state the obvious.

SCARUFFI

REVIEW ELSEQ

$20 says he gives it at least a 7

>>70685159
Yes

>>70680248
>actual music listeners
what the fuck nigger

>>70691383
>Elseq (2016) was a self-indulgent compilation of cliches, where the length did not justify the content. 4/10

>>70691458
Nah

He gave Chiastic Slide and Incunabula both an 8, and had a lot of good things to say about Exai. Since Elseq is a noisy Chiastic Slide-meets-Exai, I think he'll like it.

And as >>70680160 said, he has a thing for big, sprawling and ambitious.

Besides, this is 4 hours long, Elseq is 4 hours long. Coincidence? /s