Perfect Hair (album)
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| Studio album by Busdriver | ||||
| Released | September 9, 2014 | |||
| Genre | Alternative hip hop | |||
| Length | 46:55 | |||
| Label | Big Dada | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.1/10 |
| Metacritic | 74/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Clash | 7/10 |
| Consequence of Sound | B– |
| Exclaim! | 7/10 |
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| PopMatters | 7/10 |
| Tiny Mix Tapes |   |
Perfect Hair is a studio album by American hip hop musician Busdriver. It was released on Big Dada on September 9, 2014. It features guest appearances from Aesop Rock, Danny Brown and Open Mike Eagle, among others. The cover art was painted by John Lurie. Music videos were made for "Ego Death", "Colonize the Moon", "Eat Rich" and "Motion Lines".
On June 20, 2014, "Ego Death" was chosen by Consequence of Sound as one of their Top 10 Songs of the Week.
Perfect Hair received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on 10 reviews. Adam Kivel of Consequence of Sound said: "Wild, insanely ambitious, and a bit inconsistent, Perfect Hair encodes and decodes the ideas, opinions, and deconstructions that can only come from Farquhar's brain." David Jeffries of AllMusic said, "Perfect Hair contains all the usual reasons Busdriver is wonderful, just with a little more sugar baked in." Grant Brydon of Clash said, "The rollercoaster ride of his delivery makes it an enjoyable experience rather than a textbook headache." Matt Bauer of Exclaim! said, "A few duds abound, like the wearisome "Eat Rich", but the album ends strongly with the sci-fi-flavoured "Colonize the Moon". Jack Dutton of musicOMH said, "Although this album is at times a difficult listen, you can't help but admire Busdriver for his innovation and general wackiness." Nathan Stevens of PopMatters said, "Perfect Hair is no doubt a great album, but its tendency to fidget between ideas leaves it the idea of cohesion in a shallow grave." Jackson Scott of Tiny Mix Tapes said, "With Perfect Hair, Busdriver has once again crafted a fantastically immersive listening experience (arguably Busdriver's finest work yet), only blunted by how profoundly it telegraphs its own ambitions and intentions, more than meeting my expectations as a piece of confrontational sound art, yet leaving its targeted structures a bit too comfortably in tact."
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