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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 |
| The six EPs Doseone, why? and odd nosdam released as cLOUDDEAD earlier this year (now compiled on CD) are best described as passion plays. Obsessing over art school, women, moving from Cincinnati and varying states of melancholia, the group's "movements" (as the EPs are called) are driven entirely by overlapping verses, words buried in odd nosdam's sonic stew, lyrics spit backwards and rhymes sung and spoken in affected, atmospheric voices. The potpourri of musical styles wielded by odd nosdam and guests (Mr. Dibbs, Dj Signify) may ignite a useless debate over whether cLOUDDEAD is hip-hop or not. But the project's most telling moment arrives on "(cloud dead number five)," when, for several minutes, a synthesized orchestra heaves and swells as if it were all a feature film rather than a stylized exhausting of chapbooks. cLOUDDEAD dramatizes mundane concerns and a worried existence while inflating ego-killing confessions like "there is no difference in the plan of clouds" with world-colliding tragedy. - Urb |
3XLP/Out Of Print