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FilterMakes for exquisite travel music. [#19, p.96]
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SpinBy staying on his uniquely off-kilter game, he's become an unlikely career artist. [Mar 2006, p.95]
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This mini album sometimes feels as if it’s thrown together like quickly-packed luggage.
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Less inquisitive and much more personal [than 'Silence'], Security Screenings' giddy mosaic of psychedelic disorientation has the morning-after effect of tweezing dream from memory.
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UrbWith Screenings, Herren continues making complex compositions sound wonderfully smooth. [Mar 2006, p.116]
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Entertainment WeeklyAt its best, the music's so hypnotic you won't miss [the vocals]. [24 Feb 2006, p.65]
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If Surrounded by Silence was Prefuse 73 beside himself, or even ten steps behind himself, Security Screenings is a commendable return to the path blazed by One Word Extinguisher and its subsequent outtakes.
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Herren has actually cooked up a brilliantly soothing and entertaining morsel for his fans.
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Q MagazineIntricate yet funky, it mostly comes together to mesmeric effect. [Mar 2006, p.111]
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Rolling StoneIt's a sustained and exhilarating trip back to Herren's futuristic roots. [23 Mar 2006, p.66]
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The Prefuse of past years is replaced by plenty of airy distortion (reminiscent of his work with the Books and his side project, Savath + Savalas), and nods to the hip-hop beatwork of his early Warp records.
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Security Screenings is a marked improvement over last year's directionless Surrounded by Silence.
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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]
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Under The RadarThe great moments aren't enough to carry a convincing musical thread throughout the record. [#12, p.92]
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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.
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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.
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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]
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There's no arguing that it's pretty entertaining.... But there's the nagging sense that it's all sound and fury.
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MojoHerren never lets his music become too easy-going or the listener too settled. [Mar 2006, p.108]
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Paste MagazineUneven. [Apr/May 2006, p.117]
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Prefuse 73 is in a rut. And a bad one at that.
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UncutHis cluttered beatscapes suggest random sounds in search of a meaning. [Mar 2006, p.103]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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May 13, 2014
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ChrisF-TFeb 10, 2006