Back on the Planet | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | August 6, 2013 | |||
Genre | Instrumental hip hop | |||
Length | 44:02 | |||
Label | Brainfeeder | |||
Producer | Ras G | |||
Ras G chronology | ||||
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Back on the Planet is a studio album by American hip hop producer Ras G. [1] It was released through Brainfeeder on August 6, 2013. [1]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 70/100 [2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Drowned in Sound | 6/10 [4] |
Exclaim! | 6/10 [5] |
Pitchfork | 7.8/10 [6] |
PopMatters | [7] |
The Skinny | [8] |
XLR8R | 6/10 [9] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]
Bram E. Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic jazz excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra." [8] Daryl Keating of Exclaim! said: "Paradoxically fusing ancient, grinding rhythms and ultra-modern, plush beats, Back on the Planet skips between two distant eras while actively laughing at everything in the middle." [5]
Meanwhile, Gary Suarez of PopMatters gave the album 4 out of 10 stars, writing: "A glorified beat tape, for better or worse, it plays out like a pirate radio transmission from some collapsing Afro-Caribbean wormhole, broadcasting the sort of intemperate tinkering one might tolerate from a Wolf Eyes side project." [7] Lainna Fader of XLR8R commented that the album "is merely a collection of somewhat compelling, hip-hop-leaning beats that largely go nowhere; it's more like a dressed-up beat tape, and not a particularly exciting one at that." [9]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Back on the Planet" | 3:57 |
2. | "All Is Well..." | 3:03 |
3. | "Cosmic Lounge Kisses" | 2:17 |
4. | "Along the Way" | 3:25 |
5. | "_G Spot Connection" | 2:47 |
6. | "Ommmmm..." | 2:53 |
7. | "One for Kutmah" | 2:54 |
8. | "Culture Riddim" | 1:35 |
9. | "Been Cosmic" | 2:04 |
10. | "Injera, Lentils, and Kale" | 2:21 |
11. | "Asteroid Storm..." | 2:50 |
12. | "Find Ya Self (Anu Wrld)" | 2:07 |
13. | "Natural Melanin Being..." | 3:29 |
14. | "Ancestral Data Bank" | 3:01 |
15. | "Children of the Hapi" | 3:22 |
16. | "Jus There..." (featuring Brotha There) | 2:05 |
Back on the Planet | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | August 6, 2013 | |||
Genre | Instrumental hip hop | |||
Length | 44:02 | |||
Label | Brainfeeder | |||
Producer | Ras G | |||
Ras G chronology | ||||
|
Back on the Planet is a studio album by American hip hop producer Ras G. [1] It was released through Brainfeeder on August 6, 2013. [1]
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 70/100 [2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Drowned in Sound | 6/10 [4] |
Exclaim! | 6/10 [5] |
Pitchfork | 7.8/10 [6] |
PopMatters | [7] |
The Skinny | [8] |
XLR8R | 6/10 [9] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]
Bram E. Gieben of The Skinny gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic jazz excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra." [8] Daryl Keating of Exclaim! said: "Paradoxically fusing ancient, grinding rhythms and ultra-modern, plush beats, Back on the Planet skips between two distant eras while actively laughing at everything in the middle." [5]
Meanwhile, Gary Suarez of PopMatters gave the album 4 out of 10 stars, writing: "A glorified beat tape, for better or worse, it plays out like a pirate radio transmission from some collapsing Afro-Caribbean wormhole, broadcasting the sort of intemperate tinkering one might tolerate from a Wolf Eyes side project." [7] Lainna Fader of XLR8R commented that the album "is merely a collection of somewhat compelling, hip-hop-leaning beats that largely go nowhere; it's more like a dressed-up beat tape, and not a particularly exciting one at that." [9]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Back on the Planet" | 3:57 |
2. | "All Is Well..." | 3:03 |
3. | "Cosmic Lounge Kisses" | 2:17 |
4. | "Along the Way" | 3:25 |
5. | "_G Spot Connection" | 2:47 |
6. | "Ommmmm..." | 2:53 |
7. | "One for Kutmah" | 2:54 |
8. | "Culture Riddim" | 1:35 |
9. | "Been Cosmic" | 2:04 |
10. | "Injera, Lentils, and Kale" | 2:21 |
11. | "Asteroid Storm..." | 2:50 |
12. | "Find Ya Self (Anu Wrld)" | 2:07 |
13. | "Natural Melanin Being..." | 3:29 |
14. | "Ancestral Data Bank" | 3:01 |
15. | "Children of the Hapi" | 3:22 |
16. | "Jus There..." (featuring Brotha There) | 2:05 |