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MH-206 cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD  "It's all the same shit but they call it cLOUDDEAD." cLOUDDEAD is the avant-hip-hop grouping of Doseone, why?, and odd nosdam. Fusing abstract beats, ambient pads, and interweaving vocals, cLOUDDEAD has created a release that owes as much to the Beatles as it does to hip-hop. Like Doseone and why?'s Greenthink project, cLOUDDEAD renounces the traditional hip-hop song format in favor of music made in movements. Six such movements were created to be released as a limited edition ten-inch series. Each release features a guest (Illogic, Dj Signify, Sole, the Wolf Bros., Mr. Dibbs, and The Bay Area Animals) and focuses on a specific theme. All six are combined to create a full-length that nullifies any preconception of style and raises the artistic bar for future Mush releases. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Genius. - Mixmag / Utterly Essential - NME / Enthralling - All Music Guide / Startlingly Original - Wax / Certainly Beautiful And Strange - Rocksound / Fascinating And Addictive - Esquire / A Landmark Album - Seven / No combination of adjectives could accurately portray what you'll hear and no second-hand gushing will prepare you for the immense pleasure that is sure to wash over you when you put this album on. - Stylus |
| As oddball lyrics go, "I taught myself to survive a four-story fall wearing a spacesuit and a dead Englishman's socks" are surely the ones to beat this year. Opening the track "JimmyBreeze (1)" on this bizarre but essential album, they capture the stream-of-consciousness approach of this strangely named trio. The California-by-way-of-Cincinnati hip-hop band holed up in a variety of apartments last year, armed with antiquated electronic gear and presumably reams of scrawled-on paper, and the results were six EPs of gloriously uncategorisable music, now collected on one album. Nothing can be taken for granted here. Just as they settle into a left-field rap groove on "JimmyBreeze (2)," there's an eleven minute interlude of vocal-free ambience that might be an outtake from Bowie's Low Sessions. A difficult record, but one whose astonishing inventiveness more than repays the work you will need to put in. - The Sunday Times |
3XLP/Out Of Print