I find his stuff very intriguing when I first heard it - it felt quite a bit different than the stuff that his contemporaries wrote, and even from those in the age following him (though there are a lot of similarities as well). I believe it said that if he hadn't died so young, atonality would've probably started in Russia rather than Vienna
. I have a recording of his Preparations for the Final Mystery (which was actually done mostly by another Russian composer, Alexander Nemtin I think, piecing together the scraps of manuscript of what Scriabin had before he died), and though I haven't had the time to site through it in one listening (at about 3 hours it's no quickie
), the textures and progressions in that piece were absolutely amazing. It really brings about the setting that he intended it to be performed in (the coming of the Judgement Day, all the people in the world gathered to sing a final requiem), minus all the funky synesthesic instruments of course
- but still, worth checking out
.