Blow Your Headphones

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Blow Your Headphones
Herbaliser Headphones albumcover.jpg
Studio album by
Released11 March 1997 (1997-03-11) [1]
StudioTrain Trax Studios
Genre Hip hop, trip hop [2]
Length71:52
Label Ninja Tune
Producer Jake Wherry, Ollie Teeba, Jonny Cuba, Kaidi Tatham, Malachi
The Herbaliser chronology
Remedies
(1995)
Blow Your Headphones
(1997)
Very Mercenary
(1999)
Singles from Blow Your Headphones
  1. "New + Improved / Theme from Control Centre"
    Released: 1997
  2. "The Blend"
    Released: 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Consumer Guide Rating-Christgau-neither.png [3]
The Evening Post Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Muzik 7/10 [5]
NME 6/10 [6]
Spin 8/10 [7]

Blow Your Headphones is the second studio album by The Herbaliser. It was released on Ninja Tune in 1997. It peaked at number 24 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. [8]

Contents

Critical reception

In 1999, Ryan Schreiber, the founder and then-editor-in-chief of Pitchfork , wrote that "...Blow Your Headphones was pretty decent, but it was kinda crappy for a Ninja Tune record." [9] In 2015, Fact placed it at number 33 on the "50 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time" list. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Opening Credits"1:29
2."The Blend" (featuring What What)4:46
3."Another Mother"6:47
4."Excuse Me"1:11
5."Ginger Jumps the Fence"5:01
6."Put It on Tape"3:42
7."New + Improved" (featuring What What)3:58
8."Mr. Chombee Has the Flaw"4:17
9."Intermission"1:01
10."Saturday Night" (featuring Fabian & Big Ted)5:06
11."Shocker Zulu"5:15
12."Hardcore"4:30
13."Shorty's Judgement"5:45
14."More Styles"1:40
15."A Mother (For Your Mind)"6:37
16."Bring It" (featuring What What)3:59
17."Theme from Control Centre (Reprise)"4:40
18."End Credits"2:15
Japanese edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Mr. D.J. (Vocal Radio Edit)"5:54
2."40 Winks (No Sleep Vadim! Mix)"5:36
3."New + Improved (Wiseguys Remix)"4:05

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK R&B Albums (OCC) [8] 24

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