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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 |
| Are all your selves in agreement? Is anyone in agreement? cLOUDDEAD returns with its distorted beats, its nasal vocal interplay, left of field samples, and its first full-length CD since the compiled self-titled release of 2001. More sonically focused and assured with Ten, cLOUDDEAD's patented thud of muted soundscapes is still intact, and while the separation of the parts is more distinct and confident, the sum total is the same sideways brilliance. Genre bending is the norm here, but criticism has often been leveled that these emcees and multi-instrumentalists (Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam) aren't working within hip-hop's normative rules. This is the no music with no labels. Ostensibly, you could call these square pegs any number of genre labels, but few actually work. Heartfelt, unique, and engaging, cLOUDDEAD and their Anticon brethren aren't trying to live up to your expectations-so please go paint someone else into a corner. On Ten, cLOUDDEAD spin another batch of non-linear narratives, both playful and poetic, that deliver head scratching humor and absurdity, with deft pathos, in equal measure. - The Satellite |
1XLP/Out Of Print