Back on the Planet
| Back on the Planet | ||||
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| Studio album by Ras G | ||||
| Released | August 6, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Instrumental hip hop | |||
| Length | 44:02 | |||
| Label | Brainfeeder | |||
| Producer | Ras G | |||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (70/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Drowned in Sound | (6/10) |
| Exclaim! | (6/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.8/10) |
| PopMatters |   |
| The Skinny | |
| XLR8R | (6/10) |
Back on the Planet is a studio album by American hip hop producer Ras G. It was released on Brainfeeder in 2013.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, Back on the Planet received an average score of 70 based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Bram E. Gieben of The Skinny called the album "a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic jazz excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra." 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."
Meanwhile, Gary Suarez of PopMatters said: "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." Lainna Fader of XLR8R felt that "[Back on the Planet] 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."
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