Back on the Planet

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Back on the Planet
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Studio album by
Ras G
ReleasedAugust 6, 2013 (2013-08-06)
Genre Instrumental hip hop
Length44:02
Label Brainfeeder
Producer Ras G
Ras G chronology
Raw Fruit
(2013)		Back on the Planet
(2013)		Raw Fruit Vol. 2
(2014)

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]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound 6/10 [4]
Exclaim! 6/10 [5]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [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]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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

References

  1. 1 2 Kangas, Chaz (August 6, 2013). "Ras G Tells Us About Timelessness". LA Weekly . Archived from the original on February 2, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Back on the Planet - Ras G". Metacritic . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  3. ↑ Jeffries, David. "Back on the Planet - Ras G". AllMusic . Archived from the original on August 18, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Moore, Marcus J. (August 8, 2013). "Ras G - Back on the Planet". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Keating, Daryl (August 9, 2013). "Ras G: Back on the Planet". Exclaim! . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ Raymer, Miles (August 12, 2013). "Ras G: Back on the Planet". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on August 26, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Suarez, Gary (August 13, 2013). "Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program: Back on the Planet". PopMatters . Archived from the original on September 19, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  8. 1 2 Gieben, Bram E. (July 31, 2013). "Ras_G – Back on the Planet". The Skinny . Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Fader, Lainna (August 27, 2013). "Ras G: Back on the Planet". XLR8R . Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
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