- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
BillboardA disjointed affair on first listen, "Security Screening" eventually reveals itself as the mirror image of main man Scott Herren's multiple musical personalities. [11 Feb 2006]
-
Under The RadarThe great moments aren't enough to carry a convincing musical thread throughout the record. [#12, p.92]
-
Security Screenings is a solid record, one that will probably sound much better in the context of Prefuse 73's catalog twenty years from now than we'll ever give it credit for today.
-
It’s absorbing and fascinating, but for as much as it would seem to be the polar opposite of Surrounded by Silence, it actually suffers from a remarkably similar affliction, that being that we, as listeners, are offered no insight into what Herren is trying to say.
-
Alternative PressHerren's gift for finding order--and even melody--amid such chaos is too strong to allow this collection to be written off as self-indulgent. [Apr 2006, p.224]
-
There's no arguing that it's pretty entertaining.... But there's the nagging sense that it's all sound and fury.
-
MojoHerren never lets his music become too easy-going or the listener too settled. [Mar 2006, p.108]
-
Paste MagazineUneven. [Apr/May 2006, p.117]
-
Prefuse 73 is in a rut. And a bad one at that.
-
UncutHis cluttered beatscapes suggest random sounds in search of a meaning. [Mar 2006, p.103]
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 2 out of 2
-
Mixed: 0 out of 2
-
Negative: 0 out of 2
-
May 13, 2014
-
ChrisF-TFeb 10, 2006