• Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Feb 7, 2006
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Filter
    86
    Makes for exquisite travel music. [#19, p.96]
  2. Spin
    83
    By staying on his uniquely off-kilter game, he's become an unlikely career artist. [Mar 2006, p.95]
  3. This mini album sometimes feels as if it’s thrown together like quickly-packed luggage.
  4. Less inquisitive and much more personal [than 'Silence'], Security Screenings' giddy mosaic of psychedelic disorientation has the morning-after effect of tweezing dream from memory.
  5. Urb
    80
    With Screenings, Herren continues making complex compositions sound wonderfully smooth. [Mar 2006, p.116]
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    At its best, the music's so hypnotic you won't miss [the vocals]. [24 Feb 2006, p.65]
  7. If Surrounded by Silence was Prefuse 73 beside himself, or even ten steps behind himself, Security Screenings is a commendable return to the path blazed by One Word Extinguisher and its subsequent outtakes.
  8. Herren has actually cooked up a brilliantly soothing and entertaining morsel for his fans.
  9. Q Magazine
    70
    Intricate yet funky, it mostly comes together to mesmeric effect. [Mar 2006, p.111]
  10. Rolling Stone
    70
    It's a sustained and exhilarating trip back to Herren's futuristic roots. [23 Mar 2006, p.66]
  11. The Prefuse of past years is replaced by plenty of airy distortion (reminiscent of his work with the Books and his side project, Savath + Savalas), and nods to the hip-hop beatwork of his early Warp records.
  12. Security Screenings is a marked improvement over last year's directionless Surrounded by Silence.
User Score
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. May 13, 2014
    10
    This is by far Prefuse 73's best album ever, I love every song on the disc. My top favorite songs are With Dirt And Two Texts: AfternoonThis is by far Prefuse 73's best album ever, I love every song on the disc. My top favorite songs are With Dirt And Two Texts: Afternoon Version and Later Version With Love, When The Grip Lets You Go. This album is just brilliantly done and it will always be in my collection. Full Review »
  2. ChrisF-T
    Feb 10, 2006
    9
    Pay attention Boards of Canada, if you released a record last year with this much creativity you could have made another classic. But, alas, Pay attention Boards of Canada, if you released a record last year with this much creativity you could have made another classic. But, alas, this tops Campfire Headphase by a point or two. Thank you GSH for keeping experimental hip hop alive. Full Review »