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MH-230 cLOUDDEAD - Ten  Ten finds cLOUDDEAD building on all of the elements that defined their debut: razor sharp vocal interplay, quirky found sound samples, ambient drone dreamscapes, lyrics that walk the line between observational and confessional, and a fair share of nosdam drums slowed to a growl. Doseone and why? never take the cheap way out. Their lyrics may range from blurry and buried to sharp and surfaced, but each and every line has meaning. The music and production are collaborative, featuring Doseone's knack for bottling emotion, why's self-taught multi-instrumentalist efforts, and odd nosdam's flair for borrowed genius. Individually, Doseone, why? and odd nosdam are as prolific and fearless as anyone in today's new music scene, but together as cLOUDDEAD they are able to create music that captures all of the promise of their individual talents in an unequaled sound. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| All must hail - BBC / A brilliant swan song - CMJ / Genuinely original - Uncut / Catchy and sublime - Under The Radar / Unquestionably, cLOUDDEAD have arrived - Pitchfork / It’s golden - Magnet / Original and eccentric - Alarm / Strident and sophisticated - Grooves / Promising and satisfying – Stylus |
| Like "Dead Dogs Two," the wonderful single which preceded it, Ten is one of those albums which sounds like nothing on Earth. It's hip-hop, although in the loosest possible sense, and as far removed from 50 Cent and the like as is humanly possible. Ten actually has more in common with likes of Beck and The Flaming Lips... eccentric American indie folk-rock, although, with its murky, reverb-drenched production and ghostly noises, the influence of Warp/Skam Records is very much in abundance too. It's as if the tracks have had their whimsical Americana corrupted beautifully by the likes of Four Tet ("Son of a Gun"), the Aphex Twin ("Rifle Eyes") and Andrew Weatherall ("Our Name,"). Boards of Canada (who remixed "Dead Dogs Two") are another obvious reference point, but they never wrote lyrics referencing Abraham Lincoln, the Wright Brothers and Elvis. Definitely the best ambient alt-rap album you'll hear all year then. - Click |
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